Atlas

ATLAS is a pirate game set in a persistent open world where thousands of players can play at the same time. You build ships, recruit crews, sail across the ocean, search for treasure, raid settlements and conquer islands. PC and Xbox One players can play together in the same world.

Sail and explore

Travel in real time across an ocean covering 45,000 square kilometers and more than 700 individual landmasses. The world has distinct regions with thousands of points of interest, each with its own resources, creatures, secrets and dangers. You can dive to explore sunken shipwrecks and team up with other explorers to find new lands, exotic creatures and ruins from a bygone time.

Build your ship and crew

Construct vessels piece by piece, from rafts and dinghies to frigates and galleons. Name your ship, customize its appearance and choose where to place its planks, masts and gunports. Recruit other players or hire NPCs to help sail, operate weapons and search for treasure ashore; keep your crew fed and give them their share of the booty to avoid mutiny. You can command a large warship alone or divide its responsibilities among your shipmates.

Fight and shape your role

Customize your pirate’s appearance and unlock skills across 15 disciplines to shape your role. You can become a swashbuckler, gunslinger or cannoneer, raid land-based strongholds, use grappling hooks to board enemy ships and fire cannonballs at their hulls. Combat also includes swords and hanging enemies.

Build an organization

Create an organization such as a merchant empire, a fleet of privateers or a government navy. Establish a settlement for your company and construct it piece by piece using modular building. You can contest other companies’ land, structures and ships, and add them to your ranks.

PvP and PvE

Official servers offer PvP and PvE play. On PvP servers, ships, player inventories, NPC crew, tames, player-built structures, player-owned territory and other loot can be taken by other players. On PvE servers, players can cooperate to explore, uncover secrets and fight mythical creatures, as well as form companies or build player-run towns.

Solo and private play

You can play alone in Singleplayer mode or with up to eight friends in Non-Dedicated Server mode. These modes let you adjust the game to your preferences and play in a private version of ATLAS.

Mods and custom worlds

The ATLAS Dev Kit supports the creation of large-scale action games, including mods such as a World War II Spitfire or an Arcadian Steampunk Airship in a cloud-world. Unofficial mods can be made in any size and configuration. Server hosts can use a visual map tool to lay out custom worlds, which stream dynamically to players.