The SAGA Online world is a traditional fantasy setting with characters such as elves, orcs, dragons, dwarfs, and giants. In this free-of-charge, persistent massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game players create their own realm, fight or trade with each other, and cooperate with friends to complete quests and win experience and loot. Among other things, the free-to-play MMORTS game SAGA Online offers more than 1,000 quests and six factions, each with their own individual units and unique playing styles. SAGA Online includes many successful features of massively multiplayer online games, such as guilds, raids, a live auction house for exchanging cards, equipment upgrades, joint team quests, treasure raids, etc. In addition, the game offers real-time strategy features such as city construction, resource management, and warfare.

Starting immediately, interested gamers can register for the Closed Beta at the teaser website. The testing phase will probably start in mid-December of this year. Beta participants will test the game with its numerous features, including all main functions, in an international version in English language on a European server.
All selected testers will be notified by e-mail in time for the launch of the SAGA Online Closed Beta.

Thorsten Feldmann, Senior Manager Online Entertainment at Koch Media, says: "We are looking forward to the Closed Beta and feedback from our users. We expect to be able to finish the optimization process in good time, and make the game available to the general public early next year."

SAGA Online is a real-time strategy game with a special appeal for collectors, enabling players to own, swap, and collect virtual miniatures - similar to tabletop and trading card games. Once a card has been placed on the battlefield, it is animated so that online players can control their units in a real-time strategy environment.