METACRAFT: Arena is a free-to-play online game from Solar Pixel: a competitive third-person shooter in pixel-art style with RPG progression. It is built around short sorties and steady growth of your character, base and gear.

You head into PvE missions for valuable materials or form a team for PvP tournaments, then come back to craft, trade with players and NPCs, and upgrade your base. There are melee and ranged weapons, customizable builds and item rarities. Clans can fight over territory that pays them a share of in-game trade, and recent dev diaries showed extraction mechanics and zombies.

It suits players who like loot, risky raids and clan rivalry. It is still early: one playtest has run, the next was postponed more than once, and the studio now promises a demo announcement.