Atia’s Legacy is the next Axie Infinity’s MMO, combining real-time, squad-based, and open exploration with social hubs, crafting, housing, and large-scale guild conflict for mobile and PC. Together with a community campaign distributing up to 25,000 AXS among the top referrers, as well as NFT raffles and early access codes, pre-registration has already begun. Sky Mavis has planned two public playtests for 2025, one scheduled for summer and the other, likely, later in the year.
What is Atia’s Legacy?
- Real-time squad combat with a party of four Axies and friends. The encounters reward better positioning, timing, and ability use than passive auto-battling.
- Exploration and PvE in Lunacia with quests, side activities, and resource loops that lead to progression.
- Crafting, housing, and progression that show growth beyond combat and commit to the user’s own expression.
- Social hubs and guild wars, where Lunacia can be a living world characterized by trading, party formation, and large-scale competition.
Pre-registration and rewards
There will be a 25,000 AXS prize pool shared among the top 200 referrers. The early access codes accompany the top leaderboard positions’ ranks and NFT raffles comprising a Mystic Axie and some other collectibles. The bigger the number of players who sign up, the stronger the pool.
What does the 2025 playtest roadmap look like?
The team is going to have two public playtests in 2025. The first one is scheduled for the summer. In the first phase, the team will test the most fundamental systems, such as combat responsiveness, net code, and party formation in an early wave. The second wave will bring more features and content to the economy, such as dungeons, town events, and early guild activities. The timing is very careful. Designers get the opportunity to work on the instant combat and to gather telemetry on encounter tuning, build balance, and reward pacing. For players, it means that they can learn the basics in the first phase and then dive deeper into the second one without feeling lost.
Axie has shipped many games already. What makes this bigger?
It is not the first time Axie has debuted a new game. With Origins, the team presented a well-crafted, card-based battler, which functions in seasons with prize pools and a constantly changing meta. Homeland launched as a land-based sim that lets landowners harvest, craft, and build with villagers. Raylights added one more genre to the family of games where landowners could grow plants on their land using a combination of minerals and farm AXP for Axies. So, together, these titles told different stories about the Axie universe.
However, Atia’s Legacy is not only a bigger game but also a different one, both in respect to the scope and structure. It is a single, persistent MMO that combines social play, combat, crafting, housing, and large-scale competition all in one live world. Besides, the game now delivers hands-on action instead of turn-based cards, putting guild conflict and open collaboration at the center. It is also a mobile and PC game built from scratch for the mainstream with public playtests planned twice in 2025 for hardening core systems.
Why players are paying attention now
- Real-time squad combat draws players who like timing, movement, and ability combinations. Besides, it also allows for the event to be featured when the creators who live on the climax of the play and the close calls are present.
- A large group of Axie veterans stopped playing after 2021, but the promise of an MMO that uses their Axies in a new way has regained their interest. They can bring old friends, take off the Axies, and at once feel the change of the team roles in the combat loop.
- Apart from rewarding referrals, the pre-registration campaign is also keeping the participants informed in the test invites, patch notes, and community challenges. For players who want to sample an MMO, this is very handy as it can lower the barrier of entry, which means no big upfront commitment.
Atia’s Legacy is Axie’s biggest step into the full MMO world that combines action combat, open-world exploration, social systems, and long-term progression inside Lunacia. Two playtests are scheduled in 2025, so this is the time to relearn your Axies, reconnect with your crew, and get ready for a world built for both fast sessions and long adventures.
