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Kathana

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

Adventure awaits in Kathana Select your character, quest with friends, face challenging bosses, explore dungeons, and engage in guild wars and PvP battles!

What works

  • Nostalgic old-school mmorpg experience
  • Strong community and active gms
  • Engaging progression and character builds
  • Cooperative guild and group content
  • Accessible combat and gameplay

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical issues and bugs
  • Toxicity and griefing in community
  • Pay-to-win elements and expensive items
  • Imbalanced pvp and market monopolies
  • Repetitive grind and limited innovation

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Allods Online

  • Royal Quest Online

  • Warspear Online

  • Elsword

  • Argentum Online

  • Havenhold

Less dominating

Games that feels like Kathana but with less domination over others

  • Fellowship

  • Temtem

  • RIFT

  • Heroes of Valor

  • Winds of Valen

  • Wizard101

Less competitive

Games that feels like Kathana but with less competition against others

  • Dungeons & Dragons Online®

  • Craftopia

  • Eterspire

  • LORT

  • Erenshor

  • FINAL FANTASY® XI: Ultimate Collection Seekers Edition

More value-seeking

Games that feels like Kathana but with a stronger sense of value for your time

  • Guild Wars® Reforged

  • Meridian 59

  • Where Winds Meet

  • STALZONE

  • Guild Wars 2®

  • SMITE®

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Kathana. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Kathana. These titles are not in What to play next.

Kathana: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Value.

Last update: 21/08/2026