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Highlands

Highlands is Burrito Studio's hand-drawn turn-based strategy RPG about an exiled people reclaiming their homeland — recruiting heroes across four classes, managing resources, and fighting tactical battles on floating islands. It is a single-player campaign with no multiplayer or shared-world component, so it's catalogued here as a related but distinct genre.

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Status
Released — single-player title, no multiplayer
Business model
Buy-to-play
Genre
Turn-based strategy RPG (single-player)
Release
2015
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Developer
Burrito Studio
Publisher
Burrito Studio
Profile
Full
Research checked
2026-09-07
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MMO DNA

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PvECombat focusPvP

PvE is the sole focus — there is no PvP

SoloPlay styleGroup

This is a single-player experience with no persistent shared world

StructuredWorld structureSandbox

Structured, turn-based campaign missions are the stronger catalog signal

TargetedCombat feelAction

Turn-based tactical combat is recorded

HousingNot recordedCraftingRecordedTradingNot recordedControllerNot recordedPvERecordedPvPNot recorded
Catalog note

Not a persistent MMO

  • Highlands is a single-player turn-based strategy RPG with a hand-drawn art style and a full story campaign — there is no multiplayer mode.
  • It's catalogued here as "Turn-based strategy RPG" — a related but distinct genre from the persistent-world MMOs this site otherwise covers.
  • It's included in this directory because it's commonly searched for by people trying to figure out whether it counts as an MMO — this page exists to give you a straight answer.
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  • This entry is intentionally excluded from MMOFinder's platform, genre, and catalog-wide statistics, since it isn't an MMO at all.
  • For a persistent, many-player tactical strategy world instead, look at MMO strategy titles rather than single-player campaigns.
  • If you came here specifically to check whether this game is an MMO: it isn't, by the definition this site uses (a persistent, shared, many-player online world) — but it may still be worth playing on its own terms.
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Research record

Last checked
2026-08-16
Profile depth
Full — individually researched
Source note
Discovered in MMORPG.com / MMO game directories; deeper fields pending verification
No direct official link verified in the current record.
Profile verification

What MMOFinder has checked

6/6documented areas
  • Gameplay featuresStructured gameplay fields were source-checked for this profile.Verified
  • Gameplay mediaTwo verified, locally hosted gameplay screenshots are available.Verified
  • Source trail1 linked source is recorded for review.Verified
  • Last reviewedCatalog fields reviewed Aug 16, 2026.Verified

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Combat matchZulaBoth cataloged with Not yet verifiedGenre & setting/TG/MUDAlternative profile where no exact genre match is recordedShared featuresZezenia OnlineCatalog features have since divergedBusiness modelZentia OnlineBoth recorded as Not yet verified

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Game history

Highlands timeline

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  2. Current
    Catalog status

    Released

  3. 2026-08-16
    Research checked

    Core catalog fields were reviewed for this profile.

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Media

Highlands screenshots & gameplay

Two verified, locally hosted gameplay screenshots are available.

Source: YouTube gameplay video

Gameplay, availability and research notes

Highlands is cataloged by MMOFinder as a Turn-based strategy RPG (single-player). Its recorded status is Released — single-player title, no multiplayer, while the business model is listed as Buy-to-play. MMOFinder records its release year as 2015. Current platform data lists Windows, macOS, Linux. The profile keeps uncertain fields explicit so incomplete research is not presented as established game information.

Gameplay metadata currently describes combat or multiplayer structure as Turn-based tactical combat, single-player campaign. Discovery tags on the record include Online Game, Catalog. The developer field lists Burrito Studio, and the publisher field lists Burrito Studio. Together these catalog fields help distinguish this title from similarly named games and provide useful inputs for MMOFinder’s filtering and comparison tools.

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