Press kit

Ael Myr Online is a free full-loot PvP sandbox MMORPG that you play in a web browser, with nothing to download. Everyone plays in one world, on one shard. There are no levels: skills grow as you use them. When you die, everything you were carrying stays on your body for whoever reaches it first. It is made by crkhaus studios and is in open alpha.

Everything on this page may be used in articles, videos and streams about the game. Every clip and screenshot was captured in game, in a browser tab.

Facts

Developer: crkhaus studios
Status: Open alpha, playable now and updated every week (patch notes)
Price: Free to play
Plays on: A computer, in an up-to-date Chrome or a browser built on it, such as Edge, Brave or Opera. Not on phones or tablets yet.
Genre: MMORPG, sandbox, full-loot PvP
Sign-up: A name and a password, no email
Language: English
Made with: three.js and bitECS
Formerly: The Olde World, renamed Ael Myr Online in October 2026
Website: aelmyr.com
Community: Discord and r/aelmyr
Press contact: press@aelmyr.com

About the game

A full-loot, PvP-forward MMORPG, built as a love letter to our favorite old-school MMO sandboxes, the ones where everything felt possible. We want to bring back a style of play that has all but disappeared, one that just felt right, and modernize it while staying true to its roots.

Full-loot PvP. Outside town, anyone can attack anyone, and whoever reaches your body takes everything you carried. What you keep in your bank box or lock down in your house stays safe.
One world. One shard, and everyone is on it, with no instances.
No levels or classes. Skills rise as you use them, 720 points in all, so every character is a mix its player chooses.
Guarded towns. Attack an innocent in town and a shout of "guards" brings one to cut you down. The color of a name shows its reputation: blue for innocent, grey for a criminal, red for a murderer.
Magic anyone can learn: fire and lightning, turning invisible, walling off a road, or a gate to the far side of the world.
Bandits, warbands, dragons and dungeons out past the walls.
Crafts and trades. Mine ore, smelt it and forge weapons and armor. Tame animals, ride horses, pick pockets, and trade on the auction house.
Houses set down in the open world and furnished piece by piece.
Dyes and music. Dye your clothes, and compose music note by note to play on a lute for everyone nearby.
Groups of up to ten, who share what they find.
In the browser, with no client, launcher or download.

Gameplay reel

A knight faces a mountain dragon, a mage and a knight duel, and brigands, a cyclops and a demon lord fall in quick cuts. MP4, 1280 × 720, 27 seconds, no sound.

Clips

Short loops from the game, without sound.

Two players fight in the wilds: a knight in black plate against a red-robed mage. MP4, 960 × 540, 12 s.

A knight takes on a brigand gang and their captain with sword and kite shield. MP4, 960 × 540, 9 s.

A mage trades spells with a hierophant, an inquisitor and a cultist. MP4, 960 × 540, 11 s.

A band of orcs and darkness spiders falls to a knight. MP4, 960 × 540, 8 s.

A mountain dragon lands on a knight in a forest clearing. MP4, 960 × 540, 8 s.

A mage fights skeletons and the undead in a torchlit dungeon hall. MP4, 960 × 540, 11 s.

A player furnishes their house, moving a table onto a rug and pulling up two chairs. MP4, 960 × 540, 14 s.

The same house upstairs: a four-poster bed, rugs, candle stands and a writing desk. MP4, 960 × 540, 8 s.

A traveller's coat, hat and hose change color beside a dye tub. MP4, 960 × 540, 10 s.

A town square at night, lit by street lamps. MP4, 960 × 540, 8 s.

Screenshots

A knight's corpse after a duel, opened by the mage who won, with every piece of plate he wore. JPG, 1600 × 900.

The paper doll open mid-fight, a knight in a great helm and quartered surcoat set upon by the Red Company in their camp — The paper doll open mid-fight, as the Red Company sets upon a knight in their camp. JPG, 1600 × 900.

The full game interface in the town square, with radar, hotbar and chat. JPG, 1600 × 900.

The character creator, a new face with name, skin, face and hair choices — The character creator: name, skin, face and hair. JPG, 1600 × 900.

The dyer's palette, forty-eight swatches with crimson chosen. JPG, 1600 × 900.

A page of sheet music open as a piano roll, Greensleeves written out with its bass line — Sheet music open as a piano roll, Greensleeves written out with its bass line. JPG, 1600 × 900.

Key art and logos

A painting: a knight with a banner spears a red serpent on a hillside above a lake at sunset, a ruined castle beyond — Key art: a knight spears a serpent above a lake at sunset. JPG, 1672 × 941.

The logo. PNG, transparent, 1685 × 621.

The icon. PNG, transparent, 512 × 512.

The studio. PNG, transparent, 640 × 184.

Contact

For interviews, questions or anything else, write to press@aelmyr.com. News and updates go up first on our Discord.