Is Utopia still online?

Utopia is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing browser game that was developed and published by Mehul Patel, under the label of Solaria Interactive, Echelon Entertainment, and Swirve.com. It was released on October 11, 1998. Using real-time strategy gameplay and text-based graphics, it takes place in a fantasy world during intervals of about 10-12 weeks called Ages. Game mechanics change from Age to Age. Generally speaking, individual players manage a principality as part of a larger kingdom with a player serving as the monarch, with the goal of becoming as large as possible by capturing land from other players.

Utopia is currently the longest-running online role-playing game in the world. The game peaked in the early 2000s with around 100,000 active users. Patel gradually lost interest and sold it to Jolt in 2008. It was quickly sold to Sean Blanchfield and Brian McDonnell of Scale Front Limited in 2009, who rewrote the game from scratch after a 2009 denial-of-service attack. However, they eventually allowed the game to stagnate with only minor changes and updates due to having full-time jobs in another company. In 2017, long-time players David Cannata and Jeff Mahan of MUGA Gaming LLC purchased the game from Scale Front with the intent to revive it. In 2017, the game had a community of 3,300 users. It is still running as of September 2025 22.