15 Oldest Video Games That Are Still Getting Updates

15. Dota 2 (2013) — Last Updated: September 15, 2026

Valve could have put Dota 2 on cruise control years ago and probably kept a healthy audience anyway. Instead, its balance sheet is still being rewritten regularly, with patch 7.41f arriving after The International to tweak heroes, squash exploits, and fix everything from Roshan hiding spots to broken ability interactions. That constant surgery is part of the deal: learn the meta, get comfortable, and watch Valve rearrange the furniture again. | © Valve

14. Warframe (2013) — Last Updated: August 19, 2026

Warframe has spent more than a decade behaving like a game that launched last Tuesday. Update 43.5, Amir's Shockwave, continued Digital Extremes' habit of piling new missions, systems, characters, and story beats onto an already enormous foundation, while subsequent hotfixes kept polishing the experience. The latest of those, 43.5.4, addressed crashes, performance problems, abilities, weapons, and assorted bugs across platforms. Calling this simple “maintenance” would be selling it very short. | © Digital Extremes

13. Minecraft (2011) — Last Updated: September 15, 2026

The remarkable thing about Minecraft isn't that people still play it; it's that Mojang still finds entire chunks of the game to expand. The Wilderness Bound drop introduced the Dappled Forest, poplar trees, abandoned camps, cushions, straw beds, explorer maps, and plenty of new building material, followed immediately by a Bedrock hotfix. More than a decade after the Creeper became gaming furniture, Minecraft still receives updates substantial enough to send veteran players exploring again. | © Mojang Studios

12. League of Legends (2009) — Last Updated: September 9, 2026

League of Legends players barely get enough time to declare one patch completely broken before Riot hands them another one. Patch 26.18 brought another round of champion buffs, nerfs, and adjustments, while also launching the Caps Hall of Legends event and making changes to Classic and ARAM Mayhem. That relentless balancing cycle has helped keep Summoner's Rift from becoming a museum piece, although anyone whose main gets nerfed will probably describe the process using less flattering language. | © Riot Games

11. Team Fortress 2 (2007) — Last Updated: July 16, 2026

The Heavy Update may remain trapped somewhere inside Valve's basement, but Team Fortress 2 itself stubbornly refuses to retire. Its Summer update added six community maps, 24 cosmetics, four taunts, new Unusual effects, and another War Paint collection, with follow-up patches fixing maps and other issues. Valve has even confirmed that more Mann vs. Machine work is underway. Nearly two decades of hats, rocket jumps, and questionable Spy disguises later, the old mercenaries are somehow still clocking in. | © Valve

10. The Lord of the Rings Online (2007) — Last Updated: September 2, 2026

Apparently, the road really does go ever on. The Lord of the Rings Online is approaching two decades of service, yet Update 49.5 still arrived with new Legendary Item and PvMP reward tracks, additional rewards, event content, and continued progression for its Legendary Worlds. Angmar and Mordor subsequently had their level caps raised, with The Abyss of Mordath raid opening later in September. Middle-earth has changed owners, engines, and eras, but players are still getting reasons to return. | © Standing Stone Games

9. Garry's Mod (2006) — Last Updated: September 17, 2026

Giving the Windows version of Garry's Mod proper 64-bit binaries in 2026 sounds almost like setup for a joke, but it was one of the headline features of its September update. Facepunch also overhauled the player-model selector, improved Sandbox, expanded the spawn menu, added Insurgency mounting, and shipped a mountain of technical fixes. A hotfix followed the next day. For a game built around letting players make ridiculous things themselves, the developers remain surprisingly busy under the hood. | © Facepunch Studios

8. World of Warcraft (2004) — Last Updated: September 17, 2026

World of Warcraft passed the point of being “old for an MMO” and entered historical-landmark territory a while ago. Blizzard, however, still treats Azeroth like an ongoing construction project, with the Midnight expansion cycle bringing major content while hotfixes continue across Retail, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, The Burning Crusade Classic, Classic Era, and Hardcore. Its September 17 fixes were just another entry in a patch history that has now stretched across multiple generations of players. | © Blizzard Entertainment

7. EVE Online (2003) — Last Updated: September 8, 2026

Reading EVE Online patch notes can occasionally feel like studying amendments to the tax code of an actual space civilization. The Cradle of War expansion added Military Campaigns, a new Epic Arc, rookie-focused space, achievements, four command carriers, and four Navy destroyers, while CCP continued patching that release into September. The latest Version 24.01 update addressed a client vulnerability. New Eden remains complicated, hostile, and astonishingly alive more than two decades after capsuleers first started ruining each other's afternoons. | © CCP Games

6. RuneScape (2001) — Last Updated: September 21, 2026

RuneScape has survived graphical overhauls, technological migrations, spinoffs, and enough interface changes to make its original browser incarnation feel prehistoric. Jagex is still publishing weekly game updates, with the September 21 release covering The Deep Clean, the end of Leagues II, and an increased furniture limit. Earlier September updates also brought the Vulkan beta and NPC Auto Dormancy. Twenty-five years in, Gielinor isn't simply online for nostalgia's sake; somebody is still actively renovating the place. | © Jagex

5. EverQuest (1999) — Last Updated: September 16, 2026

The first EverQuest predates The Sims, the PlayStation 2, and an alarming percentage of its current players' Steam libraries. Daybreak nevertheless continues issuing proper updates, with the September patch making Hero's Journey quests more group-friendly while fixing events, item drops, factions, progression-server bonuses, and interface problems. It's easy to forget just how old Norrath is because it never really closed for business. Plenty of MMOs inspired by EverQuest have come, peaked, and disappeared while the original kept patching. | © Daybreak Game Company

4. Ultima Online (1997) — Last Updated: September 2, 2026

Ultima Online is old enough to remember when “massively multiplayer” still needed explaining. Publish 124 proved Britannia isn't being preserved behind glass, adding new encounters and rewards alongside seasonal material, quality-of-life changes, anniversary content, and other additions. September hotfixes then improved performance and corrected tracking problems with the Echoes of Mondain encounter. Nearly three decades after helping define what an online RPG could be, Ultima Online is still receiving patches for players who simply never moved out. | © Electronic Arts

3. Tibia (1997) — Last Updated: September 17, 2026

One screenshot of Tibia can make it look like an artifact excavated from the early internet; reading its current patch notes tells a very different story. Its Summer Update brought scalable boss encounters, powerful Moonsilver weapons, changes to Weapon Proficiency, Echo Raids, and exploration improvements, while September brought another series of fixes and client updates. CipSoft was still correcting performance problems on macOS on September 17. The pixels may be proudly old-school, but the machinery behind them very much isn't. | © CipSoft

2. Quake (1996) — Last Updated: September 15, 2026

A brand-new official episode for Quake three decades after release sounds like something a modder would promise on a forum and quietly abandon. Instead, MachineGames and id Software actually delivered Dawn of the Machine as a free 30th-anniversary update, extending the original shooter with fresh levels and ideas. September's follow-up patch added reporting tools, extra cheats, renderer fixes, and other improvements. Quake didn't merely influence nearly every 3D shooter that followed; apparently it also intends to outlive a good number of them. | © id Software

1. NetHack (1987) — Last Updated: June 9, 2026

The punchline here is that NetHack isn't merely being kept compatible with modern computers. Version 5.0.0 arrived in May with more than 3,100 documented fixes and changes, architectural improvements, C99-compliant source code, and major revisions to its development tools; updated binaries followed in June to correct additional recovery, display, and gameplay problems. A roguelike that began in the 1980s receiving a major numbered release in 2026 feels almost unreasonable. Then again, surviving unreasonable situations has always been the whole point of NetHack. | © NetHack DevTeam