ATLAS
Skip · Multiplayer · 2018 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
- Length
- 18h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 47% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 770 2GB/AMD Radeon HD 7870 2GB or better, 120 GB of storage. Windows only.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.49. That was November 2020. 62 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Salt ($14.99, scores 33) beats it on value, while it beats Dark and Light ($17.99, scores 0).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 8 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 12 percent of the 5,961 reviews written there were positive, against 47 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
468 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Not at full price. I was originally going to leave a longer review, but I opted for a quicker read. The short version is, as stated in other reviews, the developers have abandoned this game in Early Access (meaning no more updates) and shut down the official servers. This game lives on through player hosted servers and mods. With that being the case, my stance on it is simple: Do NOT pay full price on this game...
Another abandoned project. Released in EA with no intention of ever being completed. Money grab and bail like so much slop being released these days. EA games need time limits to ensure they either get completed or come off the market for good.
Still better than Ark even though it was tossed into the wind to never be updated again.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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ATLAS scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/834910/atlasThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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