New World: Aeternum
Everyone who reaches Aeternum, a fantasy land in the MMORPG New World: Aeternum, becomes immortal. The story is set in the mid-17th century, the land is modeled on the Americas, and combat has no auto-targeting, so you aim every swing yourself.
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Amazon announced the game in 2016 alongside two other PC projects. Breakaway was cancelled, Crucible was shut down in 2020, and its studio moved over to help with New World.
On launch day, September 28, 2021, Steam counted more than 700,000 players at once. Each server held 2,000 people, and queues for the most popular ones hit the 25,000 limit.
In October 2024 the game came to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S under its new name, with cross-play and a big update for PC. On January 15, 2026 it was pulled from sale, and Amazon announced that the servers would shut down on January 31, 2027.
Two reviewers praised the combat and panned the quests, and one of them called gathering and crafting the best part of the game. Players leave 66% positive out of 254,675 reviews, critics give it 75 on Metacritic. By our Recommended Score it is #3,940 of 4,736 games.
Liked it? Try Lost Ark, a Korean online action RPG that Amazon Games also brought to the West, and Throne and Liberty, which began life as a new entry in the Lineage series.
Major updates
Season 10: Nighthaven - Release Notes · Oct 2025All 5
System requirements
Minimum GTX 1060 3 GB · 8 GB RAM · 100 GBiSteam Deck PlayableMin & recommended
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 10/11 64-bit | Windows 10/11 64-bit |
| Processor | Intel® Core i5-10500 @ 3.10GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X | Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80Ghz / AMD Ryzen 5 3600X |
| Memory | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 1060 3 GB / AMD Radeon RX 590 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 2060 / AMD Radeon RX 6600 |
| DirectX | 11 | 12 |
| Storage | 100 GB | 100 GB |
From the game’s Steam store page.
