If there’s one thing MMORPGs are best known for, it’s grinding. Now, there’s nothing terribly wrong with getting your grind on – there’s a certain pleasure in walking to a good farming spot, stocking up on potions, and spending an hour or more clicking through enemies while your level dings up. But that approach isn’t for everyone, leaving them unable to enjoy the more sociable side of MMOs as a result.

Enter Fractured Online, where grinding isn’t the only way to improve your skills. In Fractured Online, knowledge is everything, and only by experiencing a wide variety of interactions and enemies in the world can you hope to become a powerful hero. With a huge skill tree available, your build – and your destiny – is yours to control.

But that’s not the only cliche that Fractured Online does away with. Finding swords on the corpse of a ghost? Don’t bet on it. Repetitive combat built around having the biggest sword with the highest damage? No chance. It’s a new approach to a classic genre in so many ways.