There’s nothing quite like getting lost in a video game. Playing a game that completely engulfs a character in a new world with an almost unlimited number of things to do is the best type of gaming experience. This is how we would describe most MMOs, or at least the successful ones. There have been more than a few MMO released already this year, but if you’re like us, none of them really stolen our time away like they should have. Here are 20 upcoming MMOs that are not yet released, but we’re definitely keeping an eye on!

EverQuest Next

One of the most influential MMO franchises in history is back and it’s going all out to try and reclaim its former title as king of the genre. Sony Online Entertainment debuted EverQuest Next in early August 2013 to positive press. Whether EQN is successful or not will depend on how successful SOE is at executing its numerous high concept ideas. The free-to-play sandbox game seeks to tackle several holy grails of the genre. If EQN’s fully destructible environments and permanently changing worlds pan out on live servers to be even half as cool as they looked in the early videos, we could all find ourselves logging into Norrath again in numbers not seen since 1999.