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Join over 260 million players worldwide in MapleStory, the world’s biggest 2D MMORPG adventure! Play now for free.

MapleStory is a mmorpg, 2d platformer and character customization game developed by Nexon Korea Corporation and published by Nexon America Inc..
Released on August 09th 2012 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 14,187 reviews of which 8,882 were positive and 5,305 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified MapleStory into these genres:

MMORPG 2D Platformer Character Customization Loot Free to Play Side Scroller PvE Multiplayer Multiple Endings Co-op Cute Anime Platformer PvP Third Person Massively Multiplayer Story Rich RPG 2D Casual

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
  • Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo @ 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 @ 3.0GHz
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: GeForce 9600 GT or ATI Radeon™ HD 5670
  • Hard Drive: 50 GB available hard disk space or more
  • DirectX®: Version 11.0
  • Network: Broadband (high-speed internet)

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2023
ATTENTION EUROPEAN PLAYERS: Avoid playing on European servers at all costs, it's trash. Just play on the NA one, the european server lags like crazy. Especially if you've got strong internet, in that case you won't feel any lag in NA, while there'll always be lag on the european server, as it's the server's problem. I don't want to beg for "likes", but please upvote this review so people can be aware of this. Thank you in advance :) Edit: I recently came back to MapleStory and remembered this review, so I should update to let you know that the EU server no longer lags and it's absolutely fine to play in. HOWEVER, be aware that Maple Story has always been many times more popular in the USA than in Europe, so our server is nowhere near a populated as the american one
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Feb. 2017
I will say this, in my opinion, this is one of the best free-to-play MMORPG's you'll ever find it is so in depth and specific and so many different quests, monster, bosses, and events you will never be bored. But I will say this this a game where you need to work for your levels, in this case characters go up to lv 250, this may seem like a lot but actually u don't really need to go past 120, and in general if you find the right areas it wont be hard. This is a great game to play with friends in fact its almost recommended, but in my case since none of my friends play this game I just put a Youtube Let's Play on the side and its great. Background Information: Been playing this game for 3 years, am 16 now was 13 when I started and still love it. Defiinitely recommend it, so many classes to choose from, You'll definitely enjoy it its a great experience!
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Feb. 2017
I want to start off by saying if you do decide to download and play this game, I would strongly advise just downloading the Nexon launcher and downloading it from there. The steam version of this game seems to have a lot of issues regarding starting the game, on most occasions I have to start my game up about 5 or so times before it finally decides it either doesn't want to crash or it actually wants to connect me to the servers. Aside from that this game is quite enjoyable. Early game progression is rather fast and you level up relatively quickly, but for me once you start reaching into the 80s it gets a bit tedious. The game can be excessively grindy and it feels like most of your time slaughtering the same enemy 200 times is wasted when you're only given a couple thousand exp. Even though the game can be overly grindy it makes up for it with its constant events. A lot of the events in Maplestory stem from special item drops that can be opened to give some sort of special currency, consumables, or trait boosting items. This adds a little extra value from grinding and you're usually able to buy pretty cool cosmetic items or chairs with the special currency. I'd also like to add that this game is a lot more fun with people you can talk to or a group of in-game friends. The boss party match making isn't very good and more often than not if you are able to be thrown into a party its with one other person and they leave it just to solo the boss anyway. Party dungeons or themed quests don't have a matchmaking system and as of right now I have a hard time finding anyone willing to party up on my lower level characters. This game in itself is fun, but the amount of time and effort with little take away make it tiresome.
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Feb. 2017
Game is great. Reboot is really awesome if you want to progress with your friends, or just by yourself without spending ANY money. Have been playing this game for 2006, and have really fallen in love again the last 2 months. I would suggest anyone to at least try it if they enjoy an mmo especially one with unique sidescrolling graphic and a beautiful soundtrack.
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Jan. 2017
I remember this game from my childhood as the game that i could spend countless hours on and only make it to level like 30 XD. I mean honestly that isnt this game anymore but now a days its more of a boss game which is fun in its own way. But from all the years this game has lots of customization and i love it to this day.
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Frequently Asked Questions

MapleStory is free to play on Steam.

MapleStory is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

MapleStory received 8,882 positive votes out of a total of 14,187 achieving a rating of 6.19.
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MapleStory was developed by Nexon Korea Corporation and published by Nexon America Inc..

MapleStory is playable and fully supported on Windows.

MapleStory is not playable on MacOS.

MapleStory is not playable on Linux.

MapleStory offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

MapleStory includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

MapleStory does not currently offer any DLC.

MapleStory does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

MapleStory does not support Steam Remote Play.

MapleStory does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for MapleStory.

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MapleStory
Free to play
6.2
8,882
5,305
Game modes
Multiplayer
Online players
399
Developer
Nexon Korea Corporation
Publisher
Nexon America Inc.
Release 09 Aug 2012
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