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Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis

SEGA / Aug 5, 2020 / Action, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Free To Play

windows
Steam Deck Unsupported

519 playing now

That's more people than live in the Pitcairn Islands.

Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis is a free-to-play action MMO. Join players around the world to explore the planet Halpha and fight in epic battles as ARKS Defenders! Unleash your imagination with our ultimate character creation experience and creative spaces to create your own phantasy.

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What's new

9/15 Server maintenance announcement

2026-09-16

Server maintenance planned date and time From 9/15/2026 (Tue) 7:00 PM (PDT) to 9/16/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT) *Players will be unable to log in during maintenance, and thus events like campaigns and Scratch Tickets will also be unavailable. Please partake in these prior to maintenance. Bug fixes Bugs to be fixed in NGS • Fixed a bug which caused task progress to not update for Main Story Chapter 9: Tower of Shadows and made players unable to leave the quest area • Fixed an issue where the tree view would not expand correctly when performing certain actions in the Featured Drop Items and Quest Reward Details windows Bugs to be fixed in NGS and PSO2 • Fixed a bug which caused some graphics to display incorrectly when changing the colors of the Center Part Bosom accessory Things to be addressed during maintenance

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• Due to this maintenance, the expiration of Premium Sets, Extended Storage 1-7, Material Storage, Personal Shop usage, Mission Pass Storage, PSO2 Personal Quarters usage, Max Orders Received Limit Expansion, and Bonus Keys will be extended by the duration of this maintenance hours. *The expiration for the above items expiring during this maintenance will be extended by the duration of this maintenance hours from the original expiration. Server maintenance schedule 9/15/2026 (Tue) 7:00 PM (PDT) to 9/16/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT) 9/29/2026 (Tue) 7:00 PM (PDT) to 9/30/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT) 10/6/2026 (Tue) 8:00 AM (PDT) to 10/7/2026 (Wed) 1:00 AM (PDT)Thank you for playing PSO2 NEW GENESIS ver.2.

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What players say

Mixed

68% positive, 18,055 reviews

Not recommended5,524 hrs played

PSO2: New Genesis has reached a point where I genuinely can't recommend it to anyone anymore. The original Phantasy Star Online 2 was an amazing game that, unfortunately, took far too long to release in the West. Despite a rocky launch, it eventually found its footing. Global caught up to the Japanese version with an accelerated update schedule, and things were looking good. Then SEGA announced PSO2: New Genesis,...

160 found this helpful, 2026-06-27

Not recommended315 hrs played

NA PSO2 is such a sad sad story, and what makes it really depressing is how high the highs were before NGS dropped. I played on JP years and years ago, but stopped due to the fanmade partial translation and the idea that surely it would be going global in the near future. Fast forward nearly a decade later and it finally does drop, during a global pandemic no less when I had infinite time to play with no...

72 found this helpful, 2025-10-08

Not recommended1,278 hrs played

Love to see a bad game die a slow painful death. Sega keeps adding bosses from the original PSO2 to try and nostalgia bait but it won't save the game. Purge new genesis and release PSO2 Classic with new updates you cowards.

140 found this helpful, 2026-01-22