I ran into this MMORPG called A Tale In The Desert, or ATITD for short, a 4 months or so ago and I found it very interesting. It's more or less a civilization building MMO with no combat and it's definitely worth a look. The development team and company is very small, I think they have 8 or so people and only about 2 or 3 programmers. You have very close contact with the devs and can even talk to them in the game if you want. There is a free trial that gives you 24 hours of playing time, it's definitely worth the free trial... just to see what only a few guys can do. It's true that the graphics aren't amazing but they are decent.
It hasn't recieved a review under 8.0 or 4/5 and has had several that were around 9.0 or 4.5/5.
The reason I'm doing this is because they can't afford much if any advertising and the only way to make the game better is to get more people into it. It's a really neat game to at least try out and I had lots of fun with it for a few months, I'll probably go back soon myself.
These are very useful fan sites:
http://www.atitd.info/
http://www.atitd.net/
http://www.atitdportal.com/phpBB2/index.php
