Discover the top text-based browser games of 2026. All free, all online, all playable in your browser - no downloads, no installs.
60 hand-picked games · Ranked by community votes
#1 · 547 votes
Drenaslia is a medieval text MMO in the lineage of the classic browser skillers. Nineteen skills from Mining to Piety, a live world with world bosses, invasions and treasure trails, clans with storehouses and summoned bosses of their own, and an economy run entirely by players. Actions run on real timers, so it plays as well in five minutes as in five hours. Free in any browser, no download, no pay-to-win.
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#2 · 377 votes
The Fishing Lands is a unique persistent browser fishing MMO for people who genuinely love fishing. Catch and collect hundreds of fish, discover new waters, improve your rods and tackle, battle fish in interactive fishing encounters, trade your catches in a player-driven economy, join crews and compete for records. Build your collection, chase rare catches and become a legendary angler in a living online fishing world.
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#3 · 301 votes
Land of Nevard is a grim, atmospheric browser RPG set in the fallen kingdom of Maendor—a realm sold while you slept. Choose your class and carve out a legend through tactical battles, dangerous wilderness expeditions, and an endless hunt for rare loot. Forge and socket powerful gear, claim territory, trade in a player-driven market, join a guild, climb the rankings, and test your strength in PvP and the arena. Play at your own pace: take command of every fight, or send the server-side auto-fighter into battle while you're away. The Necropolis awaits. What will you become?
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#4 · 258 votes
Galatium is an ad-free text-based MMORPG that can be played in your web browser without any required downloads. Join the epic battle that never ceases as people strive to become a true legend. Select from six mighty classes today!
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#5 · 206 votes
Over 7,000 players have joined since 2026 launch. The Fifth Family is a browser & mobile free to play Mafia & Crime RPG. In depth systems; Street Intel, The Menagerie, Vigilantes, Smuggling & much more. Available on Desktop, iOS & Android app stores.
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#6 · 193 votes
Masked City is a browser-based hero vs. villain RPG — pick your side, build up your character, and fight for control of the streets. Currently in open beta. What you can do: Choose Hero or Villain and build your reputation accordingly Train your stats, gear up, and fight other players Join or start an Alliance and go to war with rival crews Fight for territory in the city-wide Alignment War Compete in the MCC Championship, a weekly tournament bracket Explore, gamble, grind, and climb the Hall of Fame This subreddit is the home base for the game — updates, bug reports, feedback, suggestions,
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#7 · 182 votes
CrippleWarz is a free browser-based strategy war game where players build their strength, battle rivals, explore the world, and climb the ranks. Join a community of fighters, complete daily missions, form alliances, and dominate the leaderboard. No downloads required — just sign up and start playing.
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#8 · 138 votes
Ironhaven is a free medieval fantasy RPG that runs in any browser, with no download. Pick one of four vocations and build a name through fights you play out round by round rather than watch resolve themselves. Gather and craft what the realm gives up, take on dungeons and bosses as a party, join a guild, and test yourself against other players when you are ready. Your gathering, training, and travel carry on while you are away. Fighting is the one thing the realm will not do for you.
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#9 · 132 votes
A free browser MMO in the spirit of Gladiatus & Runescape. Fight, level up, master 13 crafting professions, conquer the arena, join a guild - grind for gear and enjoy Rome. No download.
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#10 · 122 votes
A persistent world zombie apocalypse browser-based multiplayer RPG. Choose survivor or zombie. Join a group or play independently. Fight over territory, rebuild or destroy Malton, and become part of a community-driven war that never resets. The direct clone and successor of the now-shuttered browser game Urban Dead.
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#11 · 119 votes
Blackridge RPG is a free browser-based 1940s noir mafia game where you commit crimes, battle rivals, join syndicates, build your empire, and rise from street thug to legendary kingpin in a living, player-driven underworld.
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#12 · 117 votes
NOW IN OPEN BETA. Araveth is a free-to-play text-based browser MMORPG inspired by classic online RPGs. Develop a wide range of skills, gather and craft resources, fight monsters, complete quests, trade with other players, join guilds, and explore the realms of Araveth as you build your character from a new adventurer into a legend.
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#13 · 110 votes
Arcane Angler is a free-to-play Fishing MMORPG playable in your browser and on Android. Explore 20 biomes, catch 2,000+ fish, upgrade your gear, level up, collect permanent stat-boosting Collectibles, join Guild Tournaments, race other anglers weekly, and fish together in Party Boats. The game has around 140–160 daily active players and is actively developed with ideas and feedback from our community.
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#14 · 105 votes
Eclesiar is a Free MMOG Strategy browser and mobile game where you can conquer the world. From a business perspective, and where politics and war assemble.
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#15 · 96 votes
Shadowrealm is a dark-fantasy crime MMORPG in your browser. Climb the criminal underworld: run heists and casinos, duel rivals in PvP and the arena, break allies out of jail, craft gear, trade the market, join a guild, and ascend for prestige. Free to play, no download.
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#16 · 85 votes
Rico City Online is a living browser crime MMO where every choice shapes one shared economy. Build careers, commit crimes, enforce the law, run businesses, own property, tune vehicles, fight and race while the city keeps moving—even when you’re away.
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#17 · 72 votes
Persistent browser horror MMORPG where you play as a vampire, zombie or human in the quarantined Grime City. Choose to work together in groups, and help build up the city to keep yourself safe as a human or tear it down as a zombie or vampire. PVP and PVE elements are there to keep the game fresh. We have regular events with various NPC's to fight for special gear. (Think Halloween and Christmas events). and regular npcs and bosses that drop gear of all kinds. We have monthly top lists for those who are more competitive. (And an all time one to) For fans of urban dead or nexus clash.
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#18 · 69 votes
DragonSwords 2 is a free browser RPG set in the world of Spira. No ads, no downloads, no pay-to-win. Just log in and start carving your name into the realm. Mine, fight, build, climb the ranks. Play it right in your browser.
#19 · 66 votes
Step into the sandals of a Roman lanista. Scout raw recruits, uncover their hidden potential and train them in real time through their entire gladiator career. Forge and upgrade gear at the blacksmith, master tactical gladiator combat against other real players, and send your gladiators into auto-simulated battles with play-by-play replays. Join alliances with other gladiators to become the real life Proximo!
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#20 · 58 votes
Mafioso is a persistent, season based mafia RPG built around risk, competition and player interaction. Death is permanent, killing is possible 24/7, there are no bunkers or fixed safe periods. Speed, strategy and reaction times matter. Seasons give everyone a fresh start and a shot at the top rankings, "The gallery". Mafioso is not pay-to-win. The current version has been developed continuously since 2019 by three developers and shaped heavily by years of community feedback. We just expanded to Europe, and the community is still small, so you can still get in early.
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#21 · 34 votes
In Alpha Beasts: The New Dawn, you are an Alpha Beast a genetically enhanced creature created from humanity’s final experiments. Explore a shattered world, uncover your origins, battle rival beasts, and fight to reclaim Earth from the forces that threaten its future.
#22 · 30 votes
A free DBZ browser RPG: create your own character choosing one of the many races (Saiyan, Frieza's race, Androids, and more), train your power level, learn signature moves, and explore tile-based worlds full of quests, NPCs, and turn-based PvP/PvE combat where death has real consequences.
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#23 · 30 votes
The true successor to the great browser crime RPGs of the early internet. Rise from street thug to mob kingpin in 1950s America through crime, combat, business, gangs and strategy in a persistent player-driven underworld. Free to play, no downloads.
#24 · 26 votes
Heroes Adobe - is a browser-based text MMORPG with role-playing elements that immerses players in an exciting fantasy world where they can interact with each other, develop their characters, and participate in various adventures. In Heroes Adobe, players don't just explore the world - they become an integral part of it. Every choice and action has consequences, and each encounter with other players can lead to an exciting adventure. You’ll face thrilling battles with monsters and other heroes, gather resources, and craft unique equipment. Conquer dangerous dungeons, capture strategically impo
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#25 · 24 votes
AfterLoot is a hardcore browser-based survival game where every expedition is a risk. Build your character, upgrade your hideout, craft gear, trade with other survivors, join parties, raid enemy shelters, and push deeper into dangerous endgame zones for increasingly valuable loot. Extract safely—or lose what you carried in.
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#26 · 17 votes
Welcome to Mythronia, a classic browser-based RPG that has just launched! While the world is fresh, there is already far more to discover beneath the surface than meets the eye. The realm is being actively expanded with dark myths, dangerous monsters, and epic legends. This is your chance to start at the absolute beginning. Join our active development phase, help shape the world with your feedback, and grow your character alongside the game from a simple beach explorer into the ultimate end-game champion. Your legend starts now!
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#27 · 15 votes
Maffiagang is a free browser-based multiplayer mafia game. Build your criminal empire, commit crimes, steal cars, recruit loyal crew members, fight rival families and climb the ranks to become the most feared godfather. No downloads required — jump straight into the action from any device.
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#28 · 13 votes
The realm is yours to shape. Write your name into a living realm. Spend your Mana your way. Hunt creatures, challenge rival players, master mining and magic, trade valuable resources, and build a settlement whose citizens rise—or fall—together.
#29 · 13 votes
Crime City is a free text-based mafia MMO in your browser - no download, no install. Rob, train, deal and fight your way up from Street Thug to Godfather. Run drug labs and bullet factories, work the stock market, race, gamble, and build a gang that takes the city by force. Seasons are the whole point. A new one starts on the 1st of every month and runs 25 days, then the city wipes and everyone restarts at level 1. Get killed mid-season and that character is gone for good. 240+ players, live global chat, daily leaderboards, and a real prize for the top finishers. No wallet needed.
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#30 · 12 votes
I’m building The Free Companies, a persistent low-fantasy browser game about building power in a world that remembers. You start as a Peon, build a Homestead, equip followers, join or found a Company, and take part in Expeditions, World Events, rivalries, and wars. It is made for meaningful short sessions, but the world continues between visits. What players do becomes part of a public ledger: claims, bounties, deaths, victories, and losses. Character death is permanent, so choices matter.
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#31 · 10 votes
Nightmist Legacy is a browser-based multiplayer RPG — a modern remake of the classic text MUD Nightmist Online, rebuilt from the ground up while keeping the fast, no-nonsense combat and old-school depth that made the original special. No download, no client to install — make a character and you're playing in seconds.
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#32 · 10 votes
**Enter the Fallen Kingdom.** Build your character, raise powerful creatures, join a Kingdom, battle, explore, mine and grow stronger. Fallen Kingdom is still **actively in development**, and our community helps shape the game. Player ideas and suggestions are discussed and, where possible, implemented. **Join now and help build the future of Fallen Kingdom.** ⚔️ Choose your path 🐉 Build and strengthen your creature army 🏰 Join forces with your Kingdom 💎 Discover gems, spells and powerful upgrades 🗺️ Travel, battle, mine and explore 👑 Compete, cooperate and shape your own playstyle
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#33 · 10 votes
Rule the Underworld. One Move at a Time. Kingdom Crime is a deep, persistent, browser-based gangster MMO where every decision shapes your rise—or your downfall. Build your criminal empire from nothing, commit calculated crimes, recruit crews, control territories, and outmanoeuvre real players in a
#34 · 9 votes
Hexreign is a persistent browser strategy game in open alpha. Found a realm, choose one of eleven races and five magic domains, then war, feed your people, and answer who arrives at the gate. The realm keeps starving and mustering while you’re away — check in, read the ledger, go back to your day. Magic is shared weather: lean too hard and the sky tips for everyone. Grimdark seasons, covens, behemoths when the sky tears. Free to play. No paid advantage.
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#36 · 8 votes
Bitandia is an online roleplaying web game. It can be played in web browsers without the need to download anything. The game is also well optimized for mobile devices.
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#37 · 7 votes
MobTown is a free, fully Dutch-language browser game, now also in English in the mafia/crime genre. Players build their criminal empire from the street up: committing crimes, stealing cars, robbing banks, laundering money and investing in the underworld.
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#38 · 5 votes
New Age Cartel — build your empire from the gutter up. A browser-based crime saga where every choice writes your legend. Run crimes, smuggle contraband, hit the streets or launder your fortune through the underworld — no downloads, no wipes, just you against a city full of players clawing for the same throne. Choose your path: Hustler, Corrupt, or Enforcer.bet it all in the casino, or muscle your way to the top. Every player is a rival. Every session moves the world forward, even when you're offline. Play free, right in your browser.
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#39 · 5 votes
Darkest Age is a free text-based MMORPG set in a dark fantasy world. Fight monsters, complete quests, and play with other players online. Choose from 5 classes, join guilds, do PVP, and battle powerful world bosses. Play directly in your browser or on mobile.
#40 · 4 votes
Chronicles of Denzar is a free 2D browser MMORPG inspired by classic RPGs. Explore a handcrafted world, tame monsters, craft gear, complete quests, and join a friendly community. No download needed: just create your character and start your adventure!
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#41 · 3 votes
MOONS is a Web3 space strategy game inspired by classic games like OGame, but with its own universe, economy, lore, and gameplay systems. Players build and develop their space empire, manage resources, build fleets, explore the universe, trade, fight other players, and encounter AI-controlled pirates. 🚀 Fleet — Build ships and send them on attacks, transport missions, exploration, and expeditions. 🌌 Explore — Discover new planets, resources, anomalies, secrets, and rare discoveries. ⚔️ Combat — PvP and PvE battles with detailed battle reports and combat animations.
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#42 · 3 votes
The Hustle is a free browser crime game where you build an empire from nothing — and every rival, ally, and backstabber is a real player. It's the only game where your whole crew can pull off a genuine £10bn heist together, with real cash and real trust on the line — one bad roll and everyone loses it all
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#43 · 2 votes
Goal Grid is an online football manager built for long-term club management. Create your club, develop players, set tactics and compete in scheduled leagues. Trade through auctions and negotiate direct offers with real managers. Features: - A persistent shared football world - Scheduled league competition - Player development and tactical choices - A market driven by real managers - Play directly in your browser - Never pay-to-win Goal Grid is currently in beta, and honest feedback is welcome.
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#44 · 2 votes
Empire of Vice is a persistent text-based crime MMORPG where players build criminal empires, battle rivals and compete for power. Deal drugs, run hoes, recruit thugs, steal cars, fight turf wars, extort businesses, attack and spy on other players, form alliances and climb the rankings. With a player-driven economy, round-based competition, achievements, gambling, property, weapons and deep progression, there are countless ways to build your empire. Every decision can make you richer, stronger-or put a target on your back.
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#45 · 2 votes
A mobster RPG shaped by its community. Build your character, find your crew, and choose how you make your name. Coordinate crew wars, train a street companion and fight in the arena, tune and race your vehicles, or become a feared bounty hunter. Run crimes, trade with other players, build businesses, and collect rare gear along the way. Mobsters Rise brings back the long term progression and rivalry of classic mafia browser games, expanded with new ideas, deeper systems, and more ways to play. Free to play in your browser with no download required.
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#46 · 2 votes
Idle Galaxia is a free browser idle RPG set in deep space. Battle monsters, harvest resources, upgrade gear, trade on the market, and join a clan — all from your browser, with no download required. Fight through escalating mobs for gold, battle XP, platinum, and rare stat drops, or train the four harvest skills — Xeno Tracking, Excavation, Core Mining, and Xenobotany — to gather Xeno, Starstone, Neutronite, and Glowvine. Those materials feed tools, components, and long-term progression.
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#47 · 2 votes
Infamis is an early-beta persistent crime RPG built for the browser. Commit crimes, steal and trade cars, travel the world, form gangs, plan organised heists, hunt rivals and gamble your way up the ranks. Free to join on desktop and mobile, and being shaped by player feedback.
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#48 · 1 votes
Vanya Online is an idle browser MMORPG focused on persistent character progression. Players can hunt monsters, train skills, fight world bosses, trade with other players, join Bloodlines, fish, collect Visages and Wings, and build their character over time across PvP and Non-PvP worlds.
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#49 · 1 votes
FrogAA is a free browser MMO about getting to the top of the swamp. You make a frog, you train it, and you spend the rest of your time proving it against other players. Train at the gym to push your stats, take fights to earn experience, and level into gear and opponents that were out of reach a week ago. The Battle Complex finds you opponents near your strength.
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#50 · 1 votes
A daily text RPG rebuilt from Legend of the Green Dragon (2002). Twenty forest turns per game day, and the day turns twice daily. Hunt, level, and bank your gold before somebody takes it off you. At level 15 you face the Dragon: win and you go back to level 1, keeping the bank, more maximum health, and everything you learn afterwards coming faster. Asynchronous PvP. Attack anyone within three levels; the server resolves it and the report shows both builds side by side, so "why did they beat me" has an answer you can act on. Five equipment slots, rare Beasts, a weekly goal for the whole vill
#51 · 1 votes
Hey! I wanted to share a free browser game I made called HitTheTimer. You basically start a timer, it goes invisible, and you have to hit the spacebar at the exact target time (e.g., exactly at 7.00s). If you want a real challenge, try the Global Marathon mode (link below). It tracks your total error over 10 rounds and ranks you globally. Currently looking for players to populate the TOP 25! It's completely free to play, no ads, no sign-ups. Play here: www.hitthetimer.com/#marathon Let me know what your total error was! Good luck! 🎯
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#52 · 1 votes
[b]Welkom bij GunMaffia[/b] GunMaffia is een Nederlandstalige online maffia RPG waarin je begint als kleine crimineel en jezelf opwerkt tot een gevreesde naam in de onderwereld. Pleeg misdaden en overvallen, verdien geld, koop wapens en voertuigen en bouw je criminele imperium uit. Sluit je aan bij een familie, werk samen met andere spelers en strijd om macht en status. Ontwikkel je personage, stijg in rang en ontdek steeds nieuwe mogelijkheden. [b]Heb jij het in je om de top van de onderwereld te bereiken?[/b] Speel gratis en bouw jouw maffia-imperium!
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#53 · 1 votes
Drugwars Online is a faithful recreation of the classic Drug Wars text-based strategy game, rebuilt for the modern web. You start with $2,000 in cash, a $5,500 loan shark debt accruing 10% daily interest, and a trench coat that holds 100 units of contraband. Your objective: buy low, sell high, and survive 30 days of drug trading across 10 global cities. Pay off your debt, dodge the police, fight off muggers, and bank your profits before time runs out.
#54 · 1 votes
Empire War is a free browser-based idle tycoon game. Go from a startup garage to a global conglomerate — execute deals, build divisions, recruit employees, and crush your rivals on the Power 500 leaderboard. No download, no sign-up hassle.
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#55 · 1 votes
Krucza Wieża is a free dark-fantasy browser RPG from Poland, in the vein of classic persistent web games rather than five-minute clickers. You build a character in the city of Val'Gard, spend the day's energy on expeditions, train, craft in the forge, and climb the Black Spire — 150 floors, one long climb.
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#56 · 1 votes
CodiQuest is a free browser MMORPG that features live combat, gathering, crafting, PVP, and more!
#57 · 1 votes
SpacePimpin is where you go when you feel like your true calling was to sell drugs and sex, and kill for power, pride, money, and revenge. And all that in a SciFi theme? Yes. This is heaven.
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#58 · 0 votes
New Future - a browser crime game I built. Free, nothing to install, a few weeks old and looking for players You start with nothing in one of 10 cities. You rob a shop, boost the car outside it, then buy the shop. There are 70 businesses across the map and 50 estates on top of them and they pay you whether you are logged in or not. Then there is everybody else. Fight them, steal off them, put a contract on their head, or put a crew together and take a whole city off people who thought it was theirs.
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#59 · 0 votes
Vorak is a free text based browser RPG in a shattered world. Create a character, explore the city, take quests, fight bosses, collect items and pets, train troops, and discover what remains. No download required, updated regularly.
#60 · 0 votes
Street Crime is a persistent multiplayer browser gangster RPG, online since 2007. Build your character through crimes, missions and 13 fictional ranks. Join crews for organised crime, trade between cities, develop turf and businesses, and compete through PvP and player-owned casinos. Play in a desktop or mobile web browser with no separate download. Free to start and playable without a purchase; optional memberships, credits and virtual items are available. Operated and published by DHEWY LTD.
Text-based games are a huge part of the browser gaming scene. Whether you love classic MUDs, story-driven multiplayer RPGs, or mafia simulators, this hand-picked toplist ranks the best free browser games in the text-based genre. Every game runs in your browser, most are multiplayer, and you can vote once every 24 hours to help your favourite climb the ranking.
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