City of Steam – first impressions of a browser MMORPG

Originally posted at Dorkadia.

There are most likely far more MMORPGs on the market today than I could possibly have even heard of. Some of them are good and some of them are bad while yet more are abysmally brain scarring. So what makes City of Steamworth turning my critical gaze upon? You don’t have to download a thing to play it. City of Steam is a 3D MMORPG that is played entirely in your web browser. That’s pretty remarkable in my experience (though please do leave a comment if you know of others), but is it a good game? That’s going to be pretty dependent on who’s playing, but I’ll give you a run down on my first impressions.

Visiting family and why I just can’t live in Dixon anymore.

Dixon, California is a rather small community. It is, for me, unbearably small. It’s the kind of place that I had never imagined I would leave when I was younger and can’t imagine ever living in again now. Were it not for my parents still living there, I would probably never return to the town. That isn’t to say that it doesn’t have it’s charms, just that none of those charms hold enough sway for me to otherwise make the journey from Seattle. I think it really falls into the old saying that “you can never go home again” in that the place you used to call home will never exist as it had. For that matter, neither will I ever be who I was back then.