9Dragons
Released Feb 2017
9Dragons is a free to play MMORPG with fluid martial arts combat, lush environments, and intense PvP. Immerse yourself in a mesmerizing world set in ancient China at the beginning of martial arts chivalry.
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Released, ongoing live service game
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Live Service
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Released, ongoing live service game
High confidence
Live Service
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
9Dragons is a free-to-play MMORPG that has been running since its Steam launch on February 14, 2017, and shows all the hallmarks of an actively maintained live service game. The developer has maintained a consistent cadence of substantial content updates throughout 2025 and into 2026. Three named story chapters from the ongoing "Blood of Iron" saga shipped between July 2025 and January 2026 alone: Chapter 6 on July 2, 2025, Chapter 7 on August 5, 2025, and Chapter 9 on January 16, 2026. Each chapter introduced new questlines, dungeons, and reward systems. Alongside the narrative content, the developer ran a seasonal Halloween event ("Infinite Void") in October 2025, featuring time-limited quests, field bosses, and dungeon content. Regular server maintenance patches (such as Patch 412 on March 18, 2025) add new marketplace items, reset competitive rankings, and expand NPC resource lists on an ongoing basis. The game also features rotating monetized marketplace items (Blue Splendor Stones sold "until further notice") and regularly refreshed event economies. This is a game designed to keep players engaged indefinitely through a continuous stream of story chapters, seasonal events, and rotating systems — there is no defined content endpoint, and no developer communication suggests one is planned.
Evidence
Blood of Iron: Chapter 9 launched, introducing the final confrontation with the Thunder Emperor in a new dungeon, new weekly heroic quests, and a celebration bell field event.
"Infinite Void" seasonal event launched for Halloween, combining a Ghost Festival celebration with a Liaodong storyline, new dungeon content, rotating field bosses, and a new/returning user rewards package.
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Publisher
RedFox Games
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Multiplayer · PvP
About this game
9Dragons is a free to play, 3D MMORPG with fluid martial arts combat, lush environments, and intense PvP. Immerse yourself in a mesmerizing world set in ancient China at the beginning of martial arts chivalry. Choose your destiny by siding with the "White" or "Black" clans and devote yourself to becoming a true martial artist.
Many years passed by, six clans which suffered relatively less from the War than others, resurfaced. And so, our story of Nine Dragons begins...
Background
In an ancient time in China, the nine heroes (each was dubbed as Dragon), leading one's respective clan, competed to become the One. Through numerous battles and wars, they competed. However, there was one event that drove everyone to doom, the War of Nine-Dragons. Some speculated that there were love-hate relationships among nine clans and their leaders. However, no one was able to provide the real answer that triggered such a tragic event, which caused all of nine clans to disappear from the land.Many years passed by, six clans which suffered relatively less from the War than others, resurfaced. And so, our story of Nine Dragons begins...
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Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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