ATLAS

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.

The devs have disabled all of the servers~ there are none available to join/ play. Please save your money and buy a game you can actually play. EDIT- it COULD be a great game, but its been abandoned

ive been more patient with this game, TRYING to get it to work consistently and running into the exact same crashes repeatedly, and rendering this game completely unplayable not enjoyable at all, playing multiplayer blackwood mapif you DIE or you try to open a treasure map you immediately CRASH same error every. single. TIMe. This game and its makers are a steaming heap of garbage. you should feel terrible having your names attached to something this plain bad.

goood game can be buggy sometimes but overall really enjoy the game and community

its a dead game. ark with ships. not terrible. had great potential but wild card fucked it up

played this on xbox and pc and really enjoyed the whole game and found it to be full of adventure and promise just like Ark:survival evolved but the whole situation has taken a turn over the last few years since it was abandoned,
shame it had all the promise of being a great game just lacked the polishing it needed and optimisation to make it stand out and abandoning it to sort out the hot mess that is ark v2.0 (Ark:Survival ASS-ended) to milk money for a reskinned Ark:Survival evolved shows us all wildcard is in a messed up state and obviously owe Snail games too much money they owe from their lawsuit to make a game they care about because i believe they did care about making games once but not anymore.
Good Luck Wildcard so long as you are suckling the titty of Snail Games i wont be going anywhere near one of your titles

Good Survival crafting game still going strong on un official servers!! Fun Pirate adventure!

Crap game, Crap studio, Snail Games sucks donkey D!

Game was fun while it lasted, kinda crazy its still for sale and the devs completely abandoned the game! Hasnt been a single update since 2023. So dont waste your money on a dead game!

This game have a huge potential to beat Skull&Bones but the devs choose to abandon it, it just too bad this amazing game are abandoned.

PREFACE: This game is abandoned so no more updates, blame the horrible corporate practices for that.
Not worth its price.. But I can say if I got this game for 50% off it would be worth it. I played mostly CO-OP with a buddy or single player as the servers are all community-made, and I had plenty of fun. AI is somewhat disappointing as you cannot use them to make a fleet but they will shoot enemies, or punch crocodiles if you don't arm them with weapons.. Game can be grindy but how you play is customizable, for instance xp and resource gain can be pumped up.

Could have been an amazing game, played the hell out of it at and around release. shame it was abandoned and its pretty much dead.

This game excels in what offers. If you enjoy survival games and spending your time gathering resources and building, you will appreciate it. However, many players tend to be lazy and critical, which can be discouraging for those of us who enjoy working and playing games. The game has declined in popularity due to the current state of the world and the negative attitudes of some individuals.

Great game if you are into survival and the pirate lifestyle.

built an awesome boat, got attacked, boat sank and lost everything. Worth it 9.5/10

Less lag and bugs then when it dropped, but still more buggy then ark, great game tho

It definetly needed more work before releasing.

i played this game hoping to be a good pirate game (better than skulls and bones) but the game is at best OK, the building mechanic and taming is fine giving me ark vibe, but you cant put a random leveling system in this game, i couldn't find an enemy or treasure at my level or lower even with XP boosted making it difficult to get coins and even harder to beat other ships. it may work on Ark but not in this game.

it does have great potential, i had fun building ships and bases but the fighting and leveling system needs a massive overhaul. hope it gets worked on cuz i really want to like this game

There is no other game like ATLAS. It's an extremely unique experience that I've only scratched the surface of, playing with my friends in our own self-hosted saves, and I've had a great time with it. Sure there's ARK at the core of it, but the large-scale multiplayer seafaring piracy is a welcome spin on the survival-crafting framework. The fact that they were going for an MMO that end users could in theory host their own servers for was wild.

Unfortunately, Grapeshot seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth. The game is in early access and the developers are gone without any sort of update for over a year. The official servers have gone offline. I cannot recommend purchasing this game at this time unless you got some friends that -really- want to play together as a small group.

This game is so buggy it is almost unplayable and abandoned.

Abandoned game. Waste of money. Sail/Wild Card are thieving bums.

I do enjoy this game, even now. I very much wish the developer would continue this project.

Me an Bear Team 6 still having fun liberating treasure for great justice in 2025!

its great game you can play pve or pvp and build your ships any way you want i like both pve & pvp both pvp can be fun some times

Step One: Login
Step Two: Spawn on an island
Step Three: Swim to an island because the server always spawns you a minute from land.
Step Four: Harvest some Fiber.
Step Five: Harvest some Wood
Step Five: Run because there are 10 snakes chasing you.
Step Six: Run out of Stam.
Step Seven: Snakes De-Agress You.
Step Eight: Run out of Water.
Step Nine: Find Water "Finally" but you're almost dead from dehydration and being half eaten by the islands overrun with snakes.
Step Ten: Start the water mini game.
Step Eleven: Drink the water
Step Twelve: Get Bit by a lion so you cant move.
Step Thirteen: Get eaten by 10 wolves while the lion holds you in it's mouth.
Step Fourteen: Re-spawn.
Step Fifteen: Try to find your mate.
Step Sixteen: Return to Step Four.

Great Fun on the right private server.

Dead, broken game, it used to be good, now you cant even bring up the map without crashing (yes i verified files). Shame, it was a really good game.

This game has a wooden pecker for a peg leg.
Arrrrghhhhh mayteeeee!

All of the rats from this sinking ship had scurvy, and ghost pirate STDs.

I get to be a pirate! Its fun!

Mostly played this game on private servers with some farm boost on to get more progress in less time and get to the sea fights faster against other groups or the big End boss of the sea. It's a lot of fun you can rage war on land, on sea against each other or against NPC's if you do not like to fight PVP. The sky is the limit, also roleplay is possible what is allot of fun too! In short, If you play this with a group, you can have allot of fun very quick, if you go play solo you need to find people to play with on the server because a solo mission is very very hard.

i played this mainly on xbox for maybe 700+ hours.
went through multiple raids. lost ships daily and experienced more bugs
than ark ever had but it was fun. had a lot of laughs but this is
abandoned and the devs won't even admit it
do everyone a favor and stop buying anything from snail.
the less people buy the louder the message.
remember people these are the same people who kept pushing ark 2 for years yet still have no firm eta

i have over 1700 H , great survival game , good mecanics , hard game ,only 1 server pvp with multiple grids so everyone can be together no matter what .

Devs didnt listen to the real people that realy cared about the game , they tryed to please the new players and continue to add new stuff instead of fixing the real game and the real problemas and bugs of the game .

Devs left this game and run.............. servers are down for 1 year .

This game is still on steam for sale for 25 euros what is a scam this is the same publi of Ark the games are copys of eatch other and its realy sad they did this .

By the way the game says " early acess " but its dead gone ....

Loved it, but it think it's dead now. So much potential.

if u want bein drunk without drinking. yeah.. right place.

to nobodies surprise the ark devs pumped out another shitty grindy boring ugly unoptimized survival scam that they abandoned almost the instant it launched, the server browser only shows me 1 dead community server and nothing else, trying to figure out how to direct connect to any of these vip premium p2w dogshit servers listed on a server site has been obnoxious too, basically the game is dead and not worth playing at all which sucks cause there is no good pirate games that arent boring,

This game really just needs constant update on animals, ships, shuffle the values of different sails, make new mythic weapons and armors that you need to grind hard to get them and you will make this game even more better. The new taming system is amazing. Just need new ship building system. More metal collecting animals, gem collecting animals and crystal animal. Just do little update and that would be amazing. Listen to those who play right now. Make this a single player beauty. There is so much potential on this one. Listen to this.

I love this game, but you need to just have one good developer for 3-4K salary that wants to work on this. And you will be amazed what one person could do from modding community.

6+ years in early access and still not released. very little in the way of updates. Wildstar is just milking EA to re-release their other games. Sad because this game could have been alot cooler without the stupid taming/pet system.

abandoned by the devs, do not buy.

The Developers of ARK and ATLAS have gotten so pathetic and greedy for money, without any intention of putting in the work to earn that money, i cant help but write a second not recommended review on one of their games just so the people will refrain from buying their games. Dont get me wrong, ATLAS is a trash game and i wouldnt recommend it to anyone, ever. It released as a buggy broken mess, you could enter into the ARK world creation screen (IN THE ATLAS GAME) with dinosaur modifiers and everything because they quite literally copied ARK and slapped a bunch of pirate fantasy stuff over it, you could literally enter the ark world creation menu from the ATLAS main menu because theyre not even good enough to hide their own failures, i gave this game 2 chances and it still feels like i gave it 3 chances too many.

Dont buy this game, you will regret it.