ATLAS

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. I played it for 410 hours enjoying every moment. But they "updated" it into a worse version. Now, DO NOT BUY.

It has been completely abandoned.

Play online with a community like GE or IS and you'll have a good time. Lots to explore. Boat building is fun. Worth picking up on sale. The good out weighs the bad IMO.

if you can forgive the classic ark visuals and do some tweaking and play with a friend, this game can truly be fun.

This game is the definition of a "re-skin". All of the core mechanics, down to the enemies are literally direct code from Ark Survival.
For example, the chicken in Atlas is a dodo from Ark. The shark in Atlas is the megalodon from Ark. Literally.
They used the same exact animations, scale, everything. The only difference is they gave them a new mesh, added a few different details, gave them some new sound files.
Oh, and did I mention that they abandoned it? Well, they did. AND I CANNOT STRESS HOW MUCH IT PISSES ME OFF.
This was actually an unbelievably promising game. It genuinely could have been THE age of sail naval game if it just had less shitty teams behind it. Talking about you Grapeshot and Snail Games.

This game started out promising when it first released, but has since become absolute dogshit. If not for the one server all my friends and communities keep coming back to, I would have deleted it from my library years ago. Do yourself a favour and go play literally any other game, this one is not worth your money.

They still not fixed last and major bug with the underground pirate on every base. Without that game might be okay and quite playable.

Seriously , listen to the bad reviews. I generally say buy the game to form your opinions , but that is not the case with this game .

I've never loved and hated a game so much at the same time. So much fun to play but its SO buggy. Its really unfortunate that it was abandoned, with some bug fixes it would be a lot less rage inducing.

I am writing a review because I want to write a review. Reviews help games. So here is my review. But first, you ever go look at a game and wonder how others react? Well, that is what reviews are for. I mean, without reviews, you are blindly going into a game. Sometimes, I wonder if people actually read the reviews. Hum... I wonder if anyone actually going to read my review. Well, who knows, are you reading my review? I do love reviewing games! Oh, I reviewed tons of games in my time. I remember reviewing a game and telling people what they wanted to hear! Oh... sorry, I forgot to post my review. Game is good but boring at times.

This game stinks like 2 hobos who pissed on each other for weeks now, and then to hide the stink, they cover themselves with their dogs dung.

Game could have been so good but i feel it was a quit money grab and now has been left completely.. 22 months and zero developer updates is all you need to know do not give this game your money and be very wary of giving the studios involved with this game your money

How is this game on sale and still being sold when it's completely abandoned.

report this game for fraud so we can all get refunds on this product

Reason:
Game is completely abandoned with zero notice to the community or even listing it as such on the steam store page

You will remember this as the day that you almost caught (bought) ATLAS

(ATLAS trips backwards over something, almost losing its balance, but somehow manages to escape with a perfectly timed, chaotic flourish.)

WARNING - possible loss of all progress upon crash (had several times by now) or item in invetory becoming corupted and using it giving crash (had several times) , or loosing ship and invetory upon crossing grid (has few times) also it may crash when : closing game, moving to differet map grid, running while trying to open map, alt-tabbing (atleast those i remember experiencing) .
official servers ware closed half year ago, and for xbox version you can not even host unofficial ones anymore because devs shutdown some backend service that is necesary. unofficial servers also seam to be suceptible to data corruption but atleast could make backups to restore from. singleplayer is way less stable that playing on servers

A game with much more potential than ARK, It's a pity that the developers abandoned the game, although with the addition of modular ships it became clear that something was wrong with the development. I hope that someday the game will be finished and brought to the release date.

Game is Dead, the game is buggy and not good Optimized. This game is one reason for me not to buy Games in Early Access.
The Publisher Snail game have more games like this game that they have droped down.

Had a decent time playing on Sailvation servers (modded) but honestly the game is so unpolished it was hard to continue playing the terrain was extremely messed up in places making fights harder then it should have been sea battles was decent i enjoyed being able to build my own ships and customise them to how i wanted them to be or even adding in modded ships but sadly due to a small string of updates breaking 90% of the mods and the modding community abandoning the game long before that i lost all interest in anything Snail Games related honestly a terrible company

This game is basically Ark in Pirate clothes. The main issues with it? Aside from a lot of the same problems Ark has, the development of this game has taken a turn for the worse. Originally, the devs were open and cooperative with the modding community. However, after the original lead devs left to go back to Ark, the ones that took over became hostile and combative. They regularly failed to update the devkit, and even made changes to the TOS in an attempt to lay claim to ownership of any modded content added by the community. Furthermore, when they did add new content, it was clearly of subpar quality or went in a direction that seemed to entirely ignore the setting that had already been developed.

And now, as you can see above, the devs have abandoned the game now for nearly two years, shuttering the public servers entirely. The only people playing it now are those on private servers, usually modding it for Roleplay purposes, fixing as many errant bugs and issues as they can, and trimming out as much of the stupid nonsense added in the twilight of its development as they can, DarksideRP (DSRP) being one of the largest of such servers. The base game itself is garbage, but the community does at least offer something of value if the concept is interesting to you.

Pretty good sandbox... easily understood crafting system. More fun with others for sure.. however.. it can be challenging to play alone enough. Overall, I would recommend it, especially at this price.. and the mods are pretty decent and strong player base.

Game started off with so much potential. Really enjoyed the openness of it all. Huge map and hundreds of people around the world to play with or crap on. For everything they fixed they broke 2 more things. It got better and at one point was pretty solid, but they kept making changes and took it down the proverbial crapper.

Has great potential but has been abandoned in early access community keeping it alive but with server wipes you just lose everything and have to start again waste of time

Its a good game, need just put more effort into it. Moded servers are still nice :)

Good game ruined by idiotic development decisions, greed and numerous cash grab attempts.

Making games cost money and that's understandable but the game itself was an ARK reskin at its best and most of the implementations weren't exactly groundbreaking or resource heavy.

It was clear that they killed it the minute people found out it was a reskin and nothing more and that the devs were more focused on milking it as much as possible before moving on to other projects.

It could have legitimately taken over a good portion of Sea of Thieves/AC Black Flag/Skull and Bones player bases if just a little more effort was spent on making the game enjoyable.

Great Idea, awful execution
Servers unplayable, honestly skip plenty of other pirate games that are similar coming out take a look elsewhere this is awful

All of my hours in this game were with Darkside RP. Venalis had an entire modding team propping up the game and encouraging new players to buy it to play on RP servers. It was a ton of fun, but then Grapeshot got greedy and tried to, in essence, steal all of Darkside's custom assets. This forced Darkside to quit modding the game and the whole RP community abandoned Atlas. Grapeshot has since abandoned the game. Way to screw over your own company, Grapeshot! Greedy a-holes. I will NEVER buy a Grapeshot/Snail/Instinct game again. I hope the whole company goes under because they do not respect their players or their devs.

This was my favorite pirate game, but parts of it are simply unplayable, ruin the experience, and they abandoned it, so there's that.

Do not buy games from Snail Games USA, they never finish their games. This was becoming a great game until the made stupid changes and messed the whole game up into a coach roach infested mess. So much potential lost to greed and laziness. These developer/publisher Nazi terrorist need to be forced to finish these games. I loved sailing and building ships on this game. You bunch of racist NAZI thieves!

Grabbed it on sale to join some friends.

Gave it 10 crashes, couldn't join the server.

Uninstalled the 130gb of crap.

Abandoned game. Do not buy it.
Bugs from first launch of the game are still around, never fixed, a few things added which made more bugs which were never fixed. It will never come out of Alpha or have anything done to it.
Steam should remove it from being bought.
This is the work of SnailGames, don't buy their products.

Ahoy Pathfinders!
The seas be troubled with the ghosts of future promises and abandoned features!
Take yerself else where!

I don't have access to everything in creative. Plus, I can't find any metal. I see the rocks, I just don't get any metal from them.

Game is built upon the foundation of Ark, but in a Pirates World

The game has been Abandoned and no longer has gotten any updates. but the modded community is still very much alive. Official servers are dead but dedicated ones live on it, with Stock rates or Inflated for faster pace.
Maps could take 10 minutes to cross or a few hours depending on how many Grids per server or what Ship you have built

Claim you own island and implement Tax to visitors.
Build massive bases/ships or claim a castle and build in that.
Tame Creatures and steal Pirates from your Sunken Enemies To Man your Cannons or sails .
Building is endless. and so is exploring and amassing your army


This game is buggy as hell, mostly with building and will Likely Eat your computers Ram if Dinner.

Abandoned or not this game has so much to offer. It beats Sea of Thieves in the fact that i get to make my own ship, have my own port and city. Plus you can have creatures that help you in combat or transit. This game beats Skull & Bones in the fact that its an actual pirate game where you can walk on land and hold a sword, you know....everything a pirate wants to do.

This game could use 10 lbs of polish and it would stand out as one of the best pirate games there is, unfortunately our Snail friends would rather give up on a game and still charge full price for it. 4/5 for the game. 1/5 for the studio.

cashgrab as it best.... almost 2 years without updates

Looks like all your games are getting abandoned??

I own most of your games and all are getting no updates

OK all good its pretty playable but please updates your games!!!

absolutely shocking they still charge money to get this after it was abandoned!!!! refund!!!!!!!!!!

My system is:
11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900 @ 2.50 GHz 2.50 GHz
32 GB Ram
but it keeps giving an error and resetting the computer. Why?

Why is this such a good game not updated! Can manufacturers give us the hope of follow-up!

great game love it very much heaps of fun well worth it

I loved this game, it had an amazing concept. Unfortunately it got the abandon-ware treatment.

The server developed memory leaks that caused it to run worse over time. After a bit the devs decided this bug was now a feature, so all the servers (even private ones) had to be periodically wiped.
Crashes and balance issues were never solved
Public servers were plagued by foundation spam from day 1 on.

I was surprised by the game in a few positive ways. First, the big plus goes to the multiplayer experience – playing with friends is really fun, and there's so much to explore and build in this huge world. The graphics are solid, and the oceans and islands are nicely designed, which adds to the immersion.

However, there are some technical issues that can interfere with enjoying the game, like bugs or lag, but they've been addressing these in past updates. There's also a lot of grinding, which might bother some people, but when you're playing with a group, everything becomes a lot more enjoyable.

If you like open-world games with building, combat, and exploration, Atlas is definitely worth trying. The game has the potential to create some amazing moments with friends, even though it's not perfect. My recommendation, especially if you're looking for a multiplayer experience with your squad!

Rating: 8/10

I don't know who broke everything, but almost half of the skills don't work. And in the taming branch, recipes for buildings stopped opening at all. Or in the starting lacquers, pirate ships with levels 800 and higher appear and destroy the starting ship with one shot, which completely kills your desire to continue playing. The developers should pay, they break more and more with each new update, they don't want to fix anything and put a spoke in the wheel of all the developers of cool mods

Great game. Sad it was abandoned. Had some good times with a friend.

Super fun game, like Ark but pirates, better than sea of thieves by far. It has been abandoned but the game is complete if you ask me.

Imagine making a game that smashed all other pirate games so heavily, gave the best sense of freedom to the player, and made the entire gameplay loop satisfying by being breathtaking, with a dedicated fanbase... Only to shit the bed and kill it for absolutely no reason. I loved Atlas, I wish the company did too but it would appear not.

It was cheeks, and still is since it's been in early access since 2018 or something like that.

It was a scam when it launched by being the game ARK, but built in a new sailor themed map. It's more of scam now that it's totally abandoned after the backlash when players found they could access ARK: Survival Evolved maps through the editor console, proving all they did was vaguely rebuild some elements of an already buggy mess to sell at a full retail price.

Let's also not forget this is the same company that sold an expansion for ARK before ARK even left early access. There's a difference between 'Devs need to make money to continue development' and 'Devs hit success, couldn't keep up with demand of quality and chose to just drain money from that success'.

Let's also not forget that ARK: Survival Evolved got re-released as 'ARK: Survival Ascended' which was yet another re-hash which was even buggier than the original... Just to make more money. This company is scum and I'm glad there's alternatives to 'Open world sea-based survival' now, as well as alternatives for 'Ship exploration/warfare' games.

Don't buy this game. Was good 5 years ago but what good is a pirate game where your map doesn't work?

I read all the reviews and still purchased the game. As I've had fun with games that have a ton of negative reviews in the past. I have over 500 hours in this game in a very short time frame. So it just shows that it checked all the boxes for me for it's genre... when it worked.

As per the usual, Snail, Grapeshot, Wildcard or w/e the feel like calling themselves these days, had a great idea that could have been one of the GOATs but had a piss poor execution. The mod community has done what they can to salvage the game and make it enjoyable. But it's still a broken, buggy mess and there's just as much irritation as there is fun.

Now for those of you that play/have played ASE or ASA you know what I mean. Honestly this game has done much better since they walked away from it. But there is only so much duct tape you can use before the ship sinks anyway.

It's a shame because this game practically has all of the things I want in a seafaring game. But you're rolling the dice every time you play it in it's current state on whether or not you can even get into the game on multiplayer. And as with most of these types of games, it can get a bit boring after a while, just playing solo.

Such a waste of potential. Waste your time and your money at your own risk.

game sadly abandoned, they milked what they could out of customers and then took off.