Mods and private servers keep it alive
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“the modding community and public-modded servers are alive and well and are very fun!”
Steam review · 1943 h played ↗
ATLAS
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Mixed · 46%Mixed · 46%Grapeshot Games, Instinct Games2018Survival · Adventure · RPG
The verdict
ATLAS is an ARK-style pirate survival sandbox with great ship building and sailing, but it's abandoned and buggy, and the official servers are gone. Buy it only on sale, for modded or private play.
Great for
Friends who want modded or private-server pirate sandbox play and can buy it very cheap
Main risk
Abandoned in early access with dead official servers, so you pay for an unfinished, buggy game
What players love
Ship building and sailing
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“sailing the sea on a ship feels amazing, and ship to ship combat is pretty fun.”
Steam review · 19.8 h played ↗
Great with friends
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“I won't play this game alone, but with friends.....this game is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun.”
Steam review · 54.1 h played ↗
Better than ARK, pirate theme
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews
“Still better than Ark even though it was tossed into the wind to never be updated again.”
Steam review · 118.8 h played ↗
Huge world to explore and tame
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“This map is disrespectfully big.”
Steam review · 51.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Abandoned, no updates, dead servers
Mentioned in ~3 in 5 negative reviews
“Devs long abandoned the game and Steam should have removed this from the store by now!”
Steam review · 346.4 h played ↗
Still sold in early access (scam complaints)
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“abandoned long ago, yet still selling in early access is pretty shady”
Steam review · 90.3 h played ↗
Buggy and unfinished
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“boats disappear when zoning from one part of the map to another.”
Steam review · 164.3 h played ↗
Crashes and poor optimization
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Its poorly optimized, prone to frequent CTDs”
Steam review · 101 h played ↗
Just a reskinned ARK
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“it's just an ARK re-skin, very rushed & unpolished.”
Steam review · 75.8 h played ↗
Text shows as squares, can't launch or log in
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews
“The menu is unreadable, all the text is squares.”
Steam review · translated · 0.3 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: UnsupportedController support120 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 770 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better
Storage120 GB available space
OSWindows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 or better
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 770 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better
Storage120 GB available space
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