Tibia The Game

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“Tibian friendships last a lifetime. ” – Banorr, Level 44 Knight “Tibia – Where death is a new beginning. ” – Lord Apprentice, Level 50 Master Sorcerer “A game that will push you beyond your limits. ” – Devilicious Danny, Level 237 Royal Paladin “Tibia dares to be different. ” – Fay Memoria, Level 360 Master Sorcerer “Tibia – Where the MMO met the RPG. ” – Kamil Sekmeth, Level 224 Elite Knight “Tibia makes your heart beat faster forever. ” – Cyban Tyroson, Level 136 Elite Knight “In Tibia death does matter. ” – Toranux, Level 110 Master Sorcerer “An instant classic role playing game that never gets old. ” – Naazguul, Level 107 Royal Paladin “Where life and death walk along with joy and madness. ” – Alar Rush, Level 101 Master Sorcerer “Tibia unites adventurers since 1997! ” – Leefoo, Level 271 Elite Knight “This world holds no mercy for those not brave enough! ” – Ingrid Lafleur, Level 109 Royal Paladin “What others can’t do with 3D Tibia does with 2D. ” – Kamil Sekmeth, Level 224 Elite Knight
Tibia Game Review - MMOs.com

Tibia Game Review – MMOs.com

Tibia is an open-ended 2D fantasy MMORPG originally released back in 1997. Despite its age, Tibia remains incredibly popular, with over 15, 000 users online during peak hours. The game has a very strong emphasis on PvP, making it one of the most hardcore MMORPGs.
Overview
Tibia Overview
Tibia is an old school MMORPG created in the days of yore when bandwidth was a major consideration. While it has been outpaced by more modern MMORPGs and their development, Tibia’s 45 degree camera angle and old school graphics will definitely ring a bell of nostalgia. If you’re a fan of pixelated indie games, you’ll find something in here for you. Despite its age, Tibia still remains quite popular both in the US and internationally. The game regularly boasts over 15, 000 players online at any given time. Like RuneScape, Tibia has managed to keep its core audience interested in the game.
Tibia Key Features:
Hardcore PvP – choose to play on the Hardcore PvP servers, and test your skills in a penalty-free PvP world.
Easily Accessible – because Tibia requires a very low bandwidth, players from all places can easily jump in.
Loyal Playerbase – a large and active community that drives the game, keeping Tibia exciting and alive.
On Your Own – there is no hand-holding, as Tibia leaves players on their own to explore and forge their own path.
Tried and True – with over fifteen years under its belt, Tibia not only boasts a large amount of content and updates, but also the appeal of being a classic.
Tibia Screenshots
Tibia Featured Video
Tibia – Official Trailer 2016
Classes
Tibia Classes
Classes, which are called vocations, follow the traditional RPG lines. Note that you have to reach Level 8 before you’re allowed to choose one.
Knight – they specialize in melee combat with all sorts of weapons and armor. They specialize in physical skills and can carry the most gear/loot in the game.
Paladin – they specialize in long-distance combat with weapons like Bows, Crossbows, Stars and Spears. They have a balanced skillset of physical and magical abilities.
Sorcerer – master of offensive magic. They focus on dealing as much damage as possible to their opponents with a wide variety of spells. They have the least physical strength in the game.
Druid – they are masters of healing and nature. A largely supportive vocation, but with access to some powerful spells like Icicle and Avalanche.
Full Review
Tibia Review
By Albert Bassili
Tibia was released in January 1997 by CipSoft and is part of the first generation of MMORPGs (think Meridian 59, Ultima Online, and Lineage). As such, Tibia has all the staples of what one would consider a typical MMORPG: monster killing, treasure hunting, and questing/exploration. Furthermore, Tibia currently spans across 77 servers – 38 in London and 39 in the United States. However, given its low bandwidth requirement, and the fact that it now has a web-based option, joining in from anywhere shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
First Steps
The player starts off in an area called Dawnport, what is essentially the rookie or newbie area of the game. Here, a player can test the four vocations before making a decision. The tutorial is a bit on the short side, meaning that players will have to play for a while before learning everything. That being said though, the point-and-click and the WASD movement styles shouldn’t be too hard to get used to. The angle of the camera sometimes makes crashing into walls an issue if a player isn’t paying attention. Aside from that, there’s the typical toolbar to cast spells and take actions, as well as the chat, which is the primary way to interact with NPCs. There’s buttons littered all over the interface, but these aren’t very important at the beginning. Finally, there’s very little customization at the start. Players mostly just equip whatever items are lying around.
After about an hour’s worth of killing deer, rats, trolls, and goblins, Level 8 will have arrived and a vocational choice has to be made. Once that is done, players are released into the Tibia world at large and can chose one of the many cities in the world as a new home base.
Out and About
Tibia mainly focuses on player exploration, and therefore doesn’t hold the player’s hand much. It doesn’t tell players what to do or where to go, and there’s almost complete control over how it can be played. Hints don’t come often, and players are mostly left on their own to figure out how to do things. Even more so, compared to other MMOs, Tibia isn’t very forgiving. Death comes often at the beginning and may be a bit disheartening at first, but becomes a defining feature as the game is played. If you die one too many times, you get booted back to the rookie island and have to essentially restart. This is one of the reasons that the player base has been around for over a decade, even though there are newer and more technologically advanced MMOs. The hardcore element in Tibia simply doesn’t exist in newer games.
Death is accompanied by a loss of experience, skills, and most sadly, the backpack. Players lose anything they stored in the backpack. Even gold isn’t immune, since players have to carry it in the backpack like any other item. Fortunately though, when a player dies, all the items remain at the location of death. This is assuming that the items haven’t been looted by other players.
Guilds also play a large role in the game, since Tibia is driven by the players and the communities they create. In the long run, guilds offer a great benefit to players, enhancing their wealth and helping them along their path. Unfortunately, the creation of the guild is relegated to players with Premium accounts.
Combat and Player Killing
Combat isn’t very dazzling in Tibia, with a simple click to auto-attack format. Players can equip the standard range of melee and ranged weapons such as bows, spears and swords. The player also has the choice of setting the combat stance to either Defensive, Offensive, or balanced.
In addition to this, there’s magic, which all vocations can cast to some degree. Magic comes in the form of spells and ruins which need to be acquired, and are consumed upon use. There’s also elemental magic spells and ruins in addition to the elementally neutral ones, but they don’t play any larger part than a traditional combat system.
PvP in Tibia is based on the server players choose with three options to pick from: (1) Optional PvP, where players can only attack other players during guild wars; (2) Open PvP, where player combat is available but overly aggressive players are marked with a skull that gives some debuffs; and (3) Hardcore PvP, which is completely free PvP without any penalties.
Premium
Premium content actually plays a large part in Tibia for any form of long-term gaming. While thankfully not pay-to-win, Tibia’s Premium is more about pay for convenience. This includes things like being able to ride special mounts and faster ways to travel, renting houses, premium quests and areas, offline training, and many more features.
While a player could play Tibia completely without any form of Premium, in the long run, it tends to help a great deal. This shouldn’t be a put-off though, since the fun of playing Tibia is the challenge. Premium merely removes part of this challenge and honestly takes away from the enjoyable aspects of the game.
Final Verdict – Good
Tibia holds a special place in the heart of the older MMO gaming generations and hardcore players. It represents one of the oldest and most accessible (connection-wise) MMOs. Unfortunately, the incredibly steep learning curve and unforgiving nature might make most modern MMO gamers shy away. That being said though, if you enjoy rogue-like games, then the punishing quality and community-driven style of this game should be right up your alley.
System Requirements
Tibia System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Operating System: Windows XP or newer. Linux Compatible
CPU: Any 500 MHz CPU or better
Video Card: Any GPU that supports at least DirectX 5. 0
RAM: 128 MB
Hard Disk Space: 100 MB
Recommended Requirements:
CPU: Any 900 MHz CPU or better
RAM: 256 MB
Tibia is an incredibly old game. It was originally released in 1997, so if you have a functional PC, odds are you’ll be able to play Tibia just fine. If you’re having issues running the game, try to launch it with administrator privileges and compatibility mode set to Windows XP SP3. An unofficial client for the game allows it to be Mac Compatible. Simply search for the Tibia for Mac client if interested.
Music
Tibia Music & Soundtrack
Tibia has no in-game music.
Additional Information
Tibia Additional Information
Developer: CipSoft
Head Designer(s): Ulrich Schlott (Aka Durin), Guido Lübke, and Stephan Payer
Other Platforms: Adobe Flash, Windows, Linux, and an Unofficial Mac Client
Foreign Release(s):
The current version of Tibia published on Cipsoft’s official website is the global version of the game. There are no IP Resitrctions in place for Tibia.
Development History / Background:
Tibia was one of the first MMORPGs to ever reach widespread popularity. The game launched in January 1997, a full 9 months before the critically acclaimed Ultima Online. Like Runescape, Tibia is technically “free-to-play, ” but players need to pony up a monthly subscription to get full access to the game. Like Ultima Online, Tibia launched as a hardcore, unforgiving MMORPG. Dying meant item loss and open world PvP meant constant lingering danger. Tibia was developed by the German company, CipSoft, originally known as CIP Productions. The name refers to Cip-Pools program, which provided financial aid to programmers in German universities. Tibia was one of the first graphical interface multi-user dungeon-style games (GIMUD) as the first public test server launched on January 7, 1997. The original Tibia world at launch was only 160 tiles by 160 tiles. Despite the game’s age, Tibia still thrives today with thousands of persistent users online at any given time. There’s also a thriving community of players across various Tibia private servers as well.
Ranking The 13 Oldest MMORPGs (That Are Still Online Today)

Ranking The 13 Oldest MMORPGs (That Are Still Online Today)

It’s very disheartening when a favorite MMORPG goes offline. Not only do all the hours, effort, and money you’ve put into the game seem to go to waste, but you’ll never again be able to play your favorite quests and missions.
If an MMORPG is popular enough, however, or well-built, it may withstand the test of time. Some of these MMORPG’s came out over twenty years ago now, but are still available to play. Not only that, but the devs are still working on them, still trying to improve the player experience and add more to the game for those loyal followers.
Updated by Kristy Ambrose on March 14th, 2021: Nostalgia and money continue to drive the revamp and return to the MMOs of old. There’s an aging gaming population that isn’t into all that busy new kid’s stuff. They have just as much money to spend, and contrary to what some developers believed up until recently, their tastes are economically viable. Considering the amount of revised enhanced versions of old games that are currently available, it seems that the pendulum of gaming is swinging back to a more mature audience. In that spirit, we’ve added three more vintage MMO games for your grinding and gold-farming pleasure.
13
Age of Conan (2008)
While this game has declined in popularity in recent years, its servers are still alive and going. Age of Conan is inspired by the fantasy legend Conan the Barbarian. Set in Hyboria, the game follows an action-based combat system, where players design and build their characters in a traditional fantasy setting. The goal is to “tread in the footsteps” of Conan the Barbarian.
The game offers a free-to-play version, but must be fully unlocked by a subscription fee. The game has been criticized for its portrayal of women and the revealing female armor.
12
The Lord of the Rings Online (2007)
Middle-Earth is the perfect basis for an open world MMORPG, so it is surprising that it took as long as 2007 to make one. The game was originally P2P but a restricted free version was released in 2010.
When starting The Lord of the Rings Online, players choose a race for their character and a class based on the ones from Tolkien’s work. Classes include Burglar, Beornling, Hunter, Champion, Lore-Master, and Warden. The game features several quests and areas from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as building several original regions inspired by Tolkien’s work.
11
Guild Wars (2005)
This MMORPG introduced various elements into the genre. Set in the fictional world of Tyria, players choose a main profession for their character that affects their skill-set and abilities. The main professions are Warrior, Monk, Elementalist, Ranger, Necromancer, and Mesmer, but others have been added in expansion packs.
Guild Wars is also credited as being the first major MMORPG that didn’t focus on subscription fees, going with the more traditional “pay for the game and you can play it forever. ” A sequel, Guild Wars 2, was launched in 2012, but the original is still going strong!
10
World of Warcraft (2004)
Arguably the most popular and well know MMORPG of all time, World of Warcraft still hosts almost five million subscribers, sixteen years after it’s release.
WOW is a fantasy-themed MMORPG, set in the world of Azeroth. Again players choose a race for their character and a skill set, but unlike many MMORPG’s some skill sets are restricted to certain races. Since it’s release, several expansion packs and updates have been added. In 2019 the developers released World of Warcraft Classic, set in the original 2004 gameworld.
9
EVE Online (2003)
This space exploration MMORPG is a great fit for sci-fi fans, wanting to get away from the traditional fantasy MMORPG setting. In EVE Online, you pilot a starship and travel through various galaxies, leveling your character and building your resources. Each account can create up to three characters, with four unique races- Amarr, Gallente, Minmatar, or Caldari.
EVE Online has had steady popularity, increasing in 2011 with a free-to-play version of the game. The devs continue to work on the game, releasing regular events for players.
8
Maplestory (2003)
Released in 2003, this MMO includes both side-scrolling levels and areas where players can interact. Maplestory was one of the earliest MMOs to offer a large number of choices when it came to character customization, which explains its popularity. It was also poised to break new ground when games for Andriod became a lucrative trend, another one of the features that have assured its longevity. Several local versions also exist, making the game a worldwide phenomenon in recent years and poised to continue expanding.
7
Second Life (2003)
This game is very much a staple in nineties fashion and style. Second Life is a much more basic game, with a strong The Sims comparison. Here you build and create your own character, dress them up, style them, build their houses, and control their relationships. Relationships can be forged with other players and your character can explore a game-world based in reality rather than fantasy.
Second Life is often referred to as an MMORPG, but many including their own developers dispute this, stating that, “There is no manufactured conflict, no set objective. ”
6
Final Fantasy XI Online (2002)
MMORPG’s based on already popular games and game-worlds don’t always live up to expectations. Final Fantasy XI Online proves that an MMORPG installment can become as popular as other installments in the series and stay relevant.
Final Fantasy XI was created by the same developers as the rest of the series, Square Enix. It also broke ground as the first MMORPG to step out of PC, releasing on PlayStation 2 and XBOX. Today the game severs only run on PC. Add-ons and expansions have been added to the game since its release.
5
Anarchy Online (2001)
Released in 2001 and still going strong, part of the draw is the expansive, open-world which is based on science fiction instead of the standard fantasy. This wasn’t just one of the first MMOs, either, it’s also one of the first online games to use a science fiction aesthetic and first-person shooter (FPS) instead of melee or magical combat. There’s no endgame or instances, but a steady path of character progression through leveling your skills and collecting a precious ore unique to this harsh planet. It’s a simple formula with complex potential that has lasted for 20 years so far.
4
RuneScape (2001)
This game has a bit of a mixed reputation. While it can prompt eye-rolling from some gamers, RuneScape has always been incredibly popular. Every gamer has played it at one time or another.
RuneScape is a fantasy MMORPG set in the world of Gielinor. Unlike most MMORPG’s you don’t choose a race or skill set. All players are human and can train in a variety of skills, all of which affect your character’s stats in some way. RuneScape’s popularity came from it being very accessible, with a restricted but fulfilling free-to-play world and being able to run on almost every PC.
3
EverQuest (1999)
Earlier this year EverQuest celebrated its 21st birthday, which is quite impressive for an MMORPG. Another fantasy MMORPG, EverQuest is set in Norrath and focuses mainly on PVP combat. Given the length of time, since its release, EverQuest offers players a lot of content, boasting five hundred in-game zones. There are sixteen classes to choose from and sixteen races, although fourteen of these are from the original game. The continued input for the developers to improve this game shows that it won’t be ending any time soon.
2
Tibia (1997)
This game goes all the way back to the last century, 1995 to be precise, when it was started by some German university students as part of a hobby. Tibia was released in 1997 and is still based in Europe. The game uses a classic fantasy setting, and it still enjoys updates and bug fixes along with a loyal fanbase even after all these decades. Modern MMO players would call Tibia “hardcore” with features like making death frequent and often resulting in losing stats or items permanently. The graphics haven’t changed much from the top-down, two-dimensional view, either.
1
Ultima Online (1997)
This MMORPG game from the Ultima game series, the first of which goes all the way back to 1981. Like EverQuest, Ultima Online focuses mainly on PVP combat. Maybe back in the days before internet trolling it was easier to engage in friendly competition. Although several expansion packs and updates have been released for the game including a new client in 2007 called Ultimate Online: Kingdom Reborn, which improved the game’s graphics, the developers have done their best to maintain the original spirit of the game.
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Frequently Asked Questions about tibia the game

Is Tibia a good game?

Despite its age, Tibia remains incredibly popular, with over 15,000 users online during peak hours. The game has a very strong emphasis on PvP, making it one of the most hardcore MMORPGs. Pros: +Hardcore PvP elements. +Over 20 years of updates.

Is Tibia still playable?

Tibia was released in 1997 and is still based in Europe. The game uses a classic fantasy setting, and it still enjoys updates and bug fixes along with a loyal fanbase even after all these decades.Mar 14, 2021

What do you do in Tibia game?

10 things to do in Tibia!Kill nasty monsters. Pack your rear and get some experience by fighting with nasty monsters! … Collect addons and mounts.Collect achievements. … Train your skills. … Decorate your house. … Talk with your friends. … Kill someone! … Make some money!More items…•Sep 28, 2020

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