There are a lot of Dancing MMOs

Anyone wondering why there are so many free to play dancing MMOs out
there? You know, games like Dance Online and Audition
Online. It seems like there are a decent amount of these games. I
think its a bit silly because all of these games play essentially the
same. Seriously, if you’ve played Dance Online you might as well have
played audition. They’re basically the same game with a different
interface. Both titles borrow heavily from the enormously popular
Dance-Dance-Revolution game as well as Stepmania for the PC.

One of the only interesting dancing games in my opinion is 5Street from
Snail Games. Snail Games also publishes Age of Armor and Heroes of Gaia
and that’s it. It’s funny though both of those other games aren’t
really that unique but 5Street is. Basically 5Street offers the same
exact dancing gameplay that Audition and Dance Online do, except with a
great social experience built it. 5Street is also a virtual world, so
players can walk around, explore, talk and socialize. In fact, the game
promotes this by offering so many different emoticons, player housing
and much more. I’m not saying 5Street is a great game either, as the
game has some terrible translations, but in my opinion its the best
dancing MMO.

Aside from these games there are a few other rhythm based games.
Osu! Is the only other I can think of. It’s fun and free to play which
makes it win in my book. I don’t think there are any other social MMORPGs
with dancing other than 5Street though, which is a shame as the social
components in 5Street are pretty fun. I guess it’s no surprise that all
of these games are extremely similar, as free to play developers love
copying each other. After all, look how many WoW clones
there are out there. Free to play ones like Runes of Magic and Allods
Online are actually pretty popular as well. So if copying works,
why bother trying to make anything new?

If I missed any Dancing MMOs, do let me know if the comments below,
but I think I got them all.