MMOs similar to Tibia

Tibia is close to a template for old-school MMORPGs: tile-based visuals, a punishing death penalty, and open-world PvP governed by a skull system that's barely changed in two decades. This page gathers games with a similar retro-hardcore streak — from full MMOs like RuneScape, which shares that same "risk fuels progress" philosophy and its own multi-decade run of continuous support, to titles with a narrower but still genuine focus on old-school grinding and open player conflict, like Old School RuneScape.