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MapleStory is a revolutionary multi-user-online game with unique and dynamic designs.

As the world’s first and most successful side-scrolling 2D online game, MapleStory offers distinctive avatars, a huge variety of items, a slew of quests, ease of control, and an ever-expanding world for you to explore!

Somewhere between the multitude of wacky NPCs, interesting quests, vicious-yet-cuddly monsters, and the vast freedom of the game world, you realize that MapleStory is not just another MMORPG; it’s your story! In addition to all the features online gamers have come to expect, MapleStory offers a creative world with a Maple-centric twist supported by weekly events and updates. So join the ranks of millions of Maplers worldwide. We’re sure that after spending some time in our world, you’ll want to make MapleStory your story too.

  • Easy Interface

    Easy Interface

    MapleStory’s visually appealing and intuitive game interface allows for easy and smooth gameplay. Add in 2D, side-scrolling presentation, colorful environments, and helpful NPCs and MapleStory is easily approachable for anyone to play.

  • Simple Control

    Simple Control

    MapleStory’s simple controls make jumping into the game easy and fun. Arrow keys move your character, while all other interactions can be mapped to any key on the keyboard with ease. Attack, jump, pick up items—these are just the beginning of the things you can do in MapleStory.

  • A Combination of Interesting Items

    A Combination of Interesting Items

    From clothes and hair styles to earrings and shoes, most of the wearable items in the game are shown on the screen as worn by the characters. It goes beyond merely distinguishing the items from those of others with vague colors and forms, and allows you to visually enjoy the items themselves.

  • Adding Humor to the Game

    Adding Humor to the Game

    Strolling through Maple World you see a character with a humongous head bouncing a prehistoric-looking club off an over-grown mushroom’s orange head. The mushroom squeaks, sheds a tear or two, and jumps back a hop—all the while you’re wearing only your birthday suit and lots of bath bubbles. Mix in a wide array of funny facial expressions and quirky NPCs, and it’s hard not to enjoy your stay in MapleStory!

  • Distinctive Graphics

    Distinctive Graphics

    MapleStory’s detailed, colorful graphics really make it stand apart from the rest. Everywhere you look, no detail has been spared. From each town’s individual architecture to the moving leaves of the forest, it’s worth spending time in the game just appreciating the distinctive graphics of MapleStory. Of course, when you’re actually hunting monsters against the gorgeous backdrops and using your various skills, MapleStory is at its flashy, dynamic best.

  • Creative Ideas

    Creative Ideas

    In essence, MapleStory is about bridging the unique and the bizarre with the usual and the norm. This one creative concept allows for an overflow of creative juices to continually pump into the game from not only the developer, but you the player as well. Because, after all, MapleStory is your story.

The great, vast Maple World is where you weave your own MapleStory. Though all stories begin from Maple Island and move on to Victoria Island, it’s up to you to decide where the core of your MapleStory will take place. The different regions of Maple World offer their very own towns and cultures, so exploring every nook and cranny of the world is a rare and long story in itself.

See the world of MapleStory here!

Maple World

MapleStory’s NPCs are as unique as they come, and there are dozens upon dozens of them for you to meet. Whether they’re rude, friendly, condescending, or just a little off the rocker, they’re the side characters in your MapleStory who will insure that you have an epic tale to tell. Talk to them to go on quests, to shop items, and to gather useful information. You’ll find most of them eager to relay tales of their own or unload their ware.

See the oddball NPCs of MapleStory here.

Maple NPCs

In the various many regions of Maple World lurk the monsters of MapleStory. There are some that are cuddly and cute, some that are ferocious yet majestic, and then some that are just downright hideous and goofy-looking. But no matter what they look like, their only mission in life is to attack innocent explorers. So stay on your toes, ready your weapon, and mow down these antagonists of your MapleStory.

See all the monster residents of MapleStory!

Maple Monsters