World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, colloquially referred to as Mists or MoP, is the fourth expansion set for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, following…

83 25 September 2012

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Fantasy Open world

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is an adventure developed by Blizzard Entertainment, released 25 September 2012 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is an adventure game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2012. It was published by Activision Blizzard. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

With Deathwing's menace ended, Warchief Garrosh Hellscream seized the opportunity to strike at the Alliance and expand the Horde's territory on Kalimdor. His assault completely obliterated the human city of Theramore, causing worldwide violence between the factions to erupt anew. A destructive naval skirmish left Alliance and Horde forces washed ashore on the fog-shrouded island of Pandaria, which had appeared in the open sea, defying modern maps and charts. As both warring factions established footholds on the resource-rich continent, they made contact with the noble pandaren, one of its most prolific peoples. This ancient race worked with the Alliance and Horde in the hopes of dispersing…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy and open world.

Where it sits in the Warcraft series

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is the 20th of 69 entries we hold in the Warcraft series. It arrived 2 years after World of Warcraft: Cataclysm - Collector's Edition. The next entry was World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria - Collector's Edition in 2012. Its critic score of 83 is 3 points above the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King at 97.

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How it was received

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 182 votes.

What it launched against

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria launched on 25 September 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dishonored, Borderlands 2 and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dishonored, Borderlands 2, XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

Cheats and codes

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