The Mana World Forums

Hi,

I'm interested in playing the game, yet, I feel rather lost.

First, is there a page somewhere that explains the differences between the clients? Screenshots, comparisons?

The description on the download page is a bit lacking. From what I can glance, there is

• Manaverse, which is the official client that superseded Manaplus.
• Manaplus, which superseded Mana, but is still a viable option to play the game somehow.
• Mana, which was superseded at some point, but is now being updated again for some reason? Are the other two clients having problems? And if yes, which?

So... I have no idea what that even means. Do those have different features? And if yes, which? Where can I find information? Where are Screenshots or Documentation, anything?

Then, about the game itself:

• TMW Classic, which is the main server?
• Moubootaur L., which is... another game?
• Source of Mana, which has a dead website and uses Godot, i.e probably won't work with above mentioned clients?
• TMW rEvolt, which is, I don't know?

Are those just different servers, or entirely different games? Is there some way to compare those?

I saw a screenshot and thought "looks cute, lets try it", but right now I feel like entering the game is just needlessly difficult. Also, having to answer a game related question to even enter the forum where I can ask about how to even start playing the game felt just... hostile. Are new players even welcome...?

Hi! We have many years of history with different developers and related projects, so there is a bit of confusion.

Here's a quick explanation:

Clients:

Mana is the original TMW client. It was replaced by Manaplus as official client between 2014 and 2021, but with its creator leaving it was discontinued and replaced by ManaVerse. In 2025 the Mana client was revived by its original developer (Bjørn) so we now have both Mana and ManaVerse as options. Mana is more streamlined and has simple but effective features, while ManaVerse is very packed with the many features and settings that were added over the years mainly by Manaplus. I recommend Mana if you want a simple playable client and ManaVerse if you want to dig through a lot of settings and customise your experience more.

Games:

The Mana World (TMW) is the original game that started everything. It has evolved a lot over 22 years and has a loyal community of players with lots of fun content. You'll find the most people to play with here and I highly recommend to try this game first, even to just understand where the others are coming from. This is the current homepage for TMW's wiki where you can find screenshots and other useful stuff.

Moubootaur Legends is a game that comes from various forks of The Mana World and has a vast collection of content and features. It has its own style which I'd describe as a more whimsical version of TMW. I'll let someone else who works on the game give a more detailed explanation.

Source of Mana is a newer project that is still in early development. We are aiming to create a more curated experience with a solid narrative and structure bringing together all TMW-derived content into a single coherent RPG that runs on a more modern and flexible engine. We're also revamping a lot of graphics and introducing new mechanics. If you want to try it, it'll be more of a testing experience rather than full gameplay, but we appreciate any feedback on what's available.

TMW rEvolt is a dead project and we should really update the wiki to reflect that. You can't really play it as it never went far.

I fully agree that having to answer a game-related question to access these forums is a very bad system. I have brought this up multiple times, but we have had issues with captcha in the past and this is the solution that was implemented. I would really like for it to change and I'll use this post as an example of why it should change.

Thanks for taking an interest. I hope you check out some of what we have to offer. We are working on making the presentation of all these options clearer. Posts like this help to point out new people's confusion as we tend to just get used to it when we're around it a lot.

Busy days, sorry for the late reply, especially since you took your time on giving me a fairly comprehensive answer.

I'm going with Mana as a client and on the TMW server then for a comfortable start, thank you

Aside from that, I think a simply landing page with the information from your post right here might do wonders with player onboarding.

And with that I'm off trying out the game

Hi!

ManaVerse has many features but its code is also spaghettified/lasagnaified (but being cleaned up). So now you can pick between two clients. For TMW, that is. You can still not play Moubootaur Legends with Mana. The ManaVerse website that you've linked is severely out of date, and we currently have no volunteer that would work on this and some other, mostly ML-related, websites. I also wish someone would volunteer to improve ManaVerse's UX.

SoM has its own, Godot-based, client. If you happen to speak portuguese, you can also check out TMW Brazil, it is another game and server that you can access via ManaVerse (and perhaps Mana?).

The best way, In my opinion, to compare the differences between the games, is to try them all! And, if you like what we offer, to stay and help us make it even better. We are a volunteer organisation, after all.