Games Like ATLAS

Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.

Why similar: Sailing 30.7% ★, Pirates 27.4% ★, Open World 11%, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person open-world survival game closely mirrors ATLAS's island exploration, sailing, crafting, and pirate-adventure feel in a more solo/co-op-friendly format.

Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.

Why similar: Pirates 30.5% ★, Naval Combat 28.7% ★, Open World 11%, Sailing 8.8% ★, Multiplayer 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a modern open-world pirate experience centered on ship progression, sailing, and naval combat, even if it leans less into survival and base building than ATLAS.

Or were you deaf or were you blind when you left your two fine legs behind, Or was it sailing on the sea when you got the cannonball to your knee, I too was young and I was slim and I had a leg for every limb, But now I’ve got no legs at all, they were both shot away by a cannonball.

Why similar: Sailing 26.2% ★, Pirates 23.1% ★, Naval Combat 21.4% ★, MMORPG 11.1% ★, Open World 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of ATLAS was captaining ships and fighting on the open sea, this focuses hard on realistic Age-of-Sail naval warfare in a persistent online world.

Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.

Why similar: Pirates 41.1% ★, Naval Combat 30.9% ★, Sailing 14.4% ★, Multiplayer 6.3%, Open World 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a strong pick if the ship-to-ship battles and coordinated pirate crew gameplay were your favorite parts of ATLAS.

Age of Water is an online adventure game set on a post-apocalyptic Earth completely covered in water. Sail through storms, fight and trade, capture other people's boats or build your own, extract resources from the bottom of the ocean and reveal the secrets of the Age of Water world.

Why similar: Pirates 31% ★, MMORPG 17.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.1%, Open World 11.8%, Crafting 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its waterbound open world, vehicle crafting, online play, and scavenging-heavy progression echo ATLAS's sea-focused sandbox loop in a post-apocalyptic setting.

A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!

Why similar: Survival 19.4%, Open World 16.7%, Online Co-Op 15.6%, Crafting 12.9%, Multiplayer 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: While Norse rather than pirate-themed, it scratches a very similar itch with survival crafting, base building, co-op exploration, and meaningful ship-based travel across a dangerous open world.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 28.1%, Crafting 13.8%, Open World 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Online Co-Op 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Although lighter on combat and piracy, its ocean survival, crafting, co-op, and constant life-at-sea loop make it a natural fit for players who loved ATLAS's survival side.

Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!

Why similar: Pirates 47.9% ★, Sailing 24.1% ★, Open World 10.4%, Multiplayer 4.9%, RPG 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the fantasy of commanding a pirate ship, battling at sea, upgrading your vessel, and roaming an open ocean full of opportunities.

Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.

Why similar: Pirates 35.1% ★, Naval Combat 31.8% ★, Sailing 11.3% ★, Open World 5%, Sandbox 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers open-sea exploration, ship upgrading, trading, and naval combat in a lighter sandbox package that still taps into ATLAS's roaming pirate spirit.

Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!

Why similar: Sailing 39.2% ★, Crafting 12.8%, Open World 12%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, Base Building 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its colorful but surprisingly robust mix of exploration, crafting, island survival, and ship-based adventure makes it one of the better lighter-weight alternatives to ATLAS.

Nomadic Survival MMO. Build wooden walking machines to travel to new lands. Create clans and fight for territory. Resources deplete fast, so take your sword and scavenge, pirate, and trade to stay alive.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 26.6%, Survival 17.7%, Open World 14.5%, Crafting 9.8%, MMORPG 7.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its MMO survival sandbox design, mobile bases, clan conflict, and persistent-world PvP make it a good fit for ATLAS players who liked the large-scale player-driven world.

Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of the Antilles!

Why similar: Pirates 37.2% ★, Naval Combat 36.5% ★, Sailing 12.6% ★, Open World 5.8%, Multiplayer 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is a direct pirate-and-sailing match with ship management, naval battles, and Caribbean exploration, even if it is more focused and less survival-driven than ATLAS.

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Why similar: Survival 24.1%, Crafting 14.9%, Open World 14.3%, Base Building 10.8%, Multiplayer 10%

Why You'll Like It: This is another water-centric survival crafter with base building, exploration, resource gathering, and vehicle travel across a flooded open world.

Salt is an open world exploration game where you sail from island to island looking for loot and new discoveries! Relax and explore at your own pace, picking a direction and setting sail across a vast ocean filled with quests, merchants, ruins, pirates, and other mysterious places.

Why similar: Pirates 26.9% ★, Sailing 16.3% ★, Survival 14.9%, Open World 14.2%, Crafting 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its mix of first-person island exploration, survival crafting, and sailing between procedurally generated islands overlaps nicely with ATLAS's more adventurous side.

Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.

Why similar: Survival 26.5%, Crafting 20.6%, Open World 18.3%, Base Building 14.3%, Sandbox 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its island survival, crafting, exploration, and improvised seafaring make it a strong alternative for players who most enjoyed ATLAS's castaway-survival progression.

An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.

Why similar: Survival 23.8%, Open World 19%, Crafting 13.1%, Massively Multiplayer 12.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It nails the open-world survival formula with strong building, thrall systems, clan play, and brutal sandbox progression, even without the heavy naval emphasis.

Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!

Why similar: MMORPG 28.4% ★, Survival 14.8%, Open World 14.8%, Online Co-Op 9.9%, Sandbox 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: It matches ATLAS's large-scale multiplayer survival sandbox appeal with territory control, crafting, base building, taming, and clan-oriented progression.

Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!

Why similar: Survival 24.5%, Open World 18%, Crafting 13.9%, Massively Multiplayer 12.3%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: From the broader same-school survival design lineage, it offers a very similar loop of harvesting, crafting, taming, building, and surviving in a hostile shared world.

Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.

Why similar: MMORPG 29.7% ★, Massively Multiplayer 24.8%, Open World 17%, Crafting 5.6%, RPG 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a good choice if the massively multiplayer exploration, gathering, crafting, and factional open-world progression of ATLAS mattered more to you than the sailing.

An open-world RPG, set in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy. Embark on a 200-hour-long adventure, plunder cities and ships, explore the unknown, discover treasures, forge friendships, earn bounties on your head, and charm the ladies on your path to ultimate freedom!

Why similar: Pirates 33.6% ★, Sailing 24.7% ★, Naval Combat 18.8% ★, Open World 11.3%, Sandbox 5%

Why You'll Like It: This open-world pirate RPG is a good fit if you want more historical seafaring, ship combat, trading, and captain fantasy after ATLAS.

This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.9%, Open World 17.7%, Survival 14.4%, MMORPG 13.7% ★, Crafting 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It shares ATLAS's survival-crafting foundation and open-world server-based sandbox feel, just with magic and flying mounts instead of pirate ships.

Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?

Why similar: MMORPG 27% ★, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, Open World 13.2%, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its unforgiving sandbox MMO structure, player-driven world, and emphasis on risk, travel, and social interaction appeal to the same crowd that enjoys ATLAS's emergent multiplayer chaos.

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Why similar: Survival 32%, Open World 20.5%, Crafting 18.2%, Multiplayer 13.7%, Sandbox 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: For players who mainly loved surviving on islands, gathering resources, crafting gear, and venturing across the ocean, this is a solid lower-intensity alternative.

You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!

Why similar: Survival 19.5%, Open World 14.8%, Massively Multiplayer 14.5%, Pirates 14% ★, Crafting 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: This island survival game offers crafting, building, sailing, and multiplayer competition in a format that feels like a smaller-scale cousin to ATLAS.

Every voyage is a journey of "Sailing & Beyond" in Sailing Era! Navigate your fleet and sail for fun; run a business; have a romantic encounter in the tavern; capture pirates amid intense battle; explore inland for treasure... Experience foreign culture, make novel discoveries, and sail away!

Why similar: Sailing 32.1% ★, Naval Combat 30.8% ★, Pirates 26.7% ★, RPG 4.4%, Adventure 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It leans more into the exploration, trading, and ship-command side of the Age-of-Sail fantasy that ATLAS players often enjoy.

1654 AC. The Caribbean. A place of opportunities and mysteries.

Why similar: Pirates 34.1% ★, Sailing 25.5% ★, Naval Combat 22.7% ★, Open World 7.4%, Sandbox 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a deep single-player pirate sandbox built around commanding ships, exploring colonies, trading, and fighting across the Caribbean.

King of Seas is an ARPG adventure game set in a nautical pirate world. Embark on an epic adventure across the seven seas where you’ll discover lost islands and treasures, fight rival pirates and menacing monsters, and become the most legendary pirate of all time!

Why similar: Pirates 29.5% ★, Sailing 27.8% ★, Naval Combat 25.5% ★, Open World 9.1%, RPG 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter action-RPG take on pirate exploration and naval combat that still scratches the urge to sail, fight, and build up your reputation on the high seas.

Set sail in World of Sea Battle, an action-packed open-world MMO in the Golden Age of Sail! Command historic ships, battle in PvP & PvE, shape the economy, and engage in territorial guild wars in your quest for glory across the high seas!

Why similar: Sailing 19.4% ★, Pirates 19.1% ★, Naval Combat 17.8% ★, MMORPG 13% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.3%

ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!

Why similar: Survival 21%, Open World 17.8%, Massively Multiplayer 13.5%, Crafting 12.3%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Take command of an 'Age of Sail' ship and her crew, exploring a vast, story-filled world that reacts to your decisions. Engage enemy vessels, fortifications and sea monsters in brutal tactical combat, all framed in an art style inspired by classic Naval Oil Paintings.

Why similar: Pirates 35.8% ★, Naval Combat 31.6% ★, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.8%, Sandbox 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the fantasy of managing a ship and crew through dangerous sea encounters, though in a more tactical and single-player-focused format than ATLAS.

Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 23.4%, Survival 16.8%, Open World 16.7%, MMORPG 15.1% ★, Sandbox 7.2%

Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 16.8%, Survival 12.5%, Open World 11.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

Enter a world of mystery, danger, ancient dinosaurs, mythical beasts, and cubes! Work by yourself or with a tribe of others to gather materials, craft useful items, tame wild creatures, and build huge bases to survive in PixARK!

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 21.6%, Survival 20.5%, Open World 16.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.2%, Survival 24.1%, Open World 21.1%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Crafting 6.9%

You are lost in the Bermuda Void, where the ocean is endless and dry land precious. Craft your Ship-in-a-Bottle, then experience survival on the high seas. Sail for new land, build camps, hunt for treasures, trade for goods - then defend your ship from dreaded pirates stalking this strange realm!

Why similar: Pirates 24.1% ★, Sailing 17.3% ★, Naval Combat 16% ★, Survival 8.8%, Crafting 7.3%

Set sail in the open seas and plunder solo, PvE or PvP. Trade goods for ship upgrades or equipments to hunt the Kraken, all in the same Server. Dominate by yourself or with maties. Arrrr for free!

Why similar: Pirates 21.8% ★, Sailing 19.9% ★, Naval Combat 19.1% ★, MMORPG 9% ★, Massively Multiplayer 8.8%

Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?

Why similar: MMORPG 27.5% ★, Open World 14.7%, Crafting 14%, Base Building 8.9%, Sandbox 8%

Command the seas in Maelstrom! Engage in fast-paced naval battles with powerful warships and colossal sea monsters. Customize your fleet and dominate the Abyssal Ocean. Are you ruthless enough to survive?

Why similar: Sailing 26% ★, Pirates 25.8% ★, Naval Combat 16.6% ★, Massively Multiplayer 10.6%, Survival 5%

Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!

Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Open World 19.6%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.

Why similar: Survival 18.1%, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 13.4%, Online Co-Op 13%, Base Building 9.4%

Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.

Why similar: MMORPG 24.8% ★, Massively Multiplayer 17.2%, Survival 13.4%, Crafting 10.3%, Open World 9.2%

Chart a course in a breathtaking, but fractured world. Explore ancient ruins, master advanced technology, and craft your very own skyship to brave nature’s fury and colossal threats in Lost Skies. Team up with friends or go it alone in this awe-inspiring cooperative survival adventure.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 22.6%, Open World 16.4%, Base Building 15.5%, Crafting 13.6%, Sandbox 11%

Ashes of Creation is an old-school take on the modern MMORPG set in a living, reactive world where your choices shape civilization. In this PvX open world sandbox, players will build cities, forge empires, and lay siege to foes. Uncover the Ancients as you fight to reclaim the fallen world of Verra.

Why similar: MMORPG 45% ★, Crafting 19.7%, RPG 9.1%, Base Building 8.2%, Exploration 6%

The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Why similar: Open World 27.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, Crafting 13.5%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Massively Multiplayer 11.7%

Hello! Captain! “Sea Of Craft” is a sandbox ocean-building game with realistic physics simulation. In “Sea of Craft”, you can build your exclusive ship with hundreds of materials, and explore intriguing stages on planet Beella as well as adventures of wonders in the great ocean!

Why similar: Pirates 38.8% ★, Crafting 14.1%, Open World 13.7%, Online Co-Op 7.2%, Sandbox 5.8%

Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25.5%, Open World 16%, MMORPG 15.8% ★, Crafting 13.5%, Survival 10.8%

Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.

Why similar: Pirates 25.6% ★, Sailing 22.4% ★, Naval Combat 19.9% ★, Survival 9.2%, Open World 8.3%

ARK: The Survival of the Fittest is a prototype spin-off of ARK: Survival Evolved, pitting up to 60 combatants against each other in a fast-paced, action-packed struggle for survival, where players are ultimately pushed into an epic final showdown leading their Dinosaur Armies into battle.

Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Massively Multiplayer 19.7%, Open World 16.3%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Crafting 9.1%

Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.

Why similar: Pirates 29.9% ★, Sailing 24.5% ★, Open World 11.9%, Online Co-Op 8%, Multiplayer 6.9%

Traverse punishing environments, looting, crafting and evading the constant threats to your life. The unprecedented levels of character customization and progression are your ultimate tools for survival.

Why similar: Massively Multiplayer 25%, Survival 17.3%, Open World 16.3%, Crafting 12.4%, Online Co-Op 11.2%

Become a Mighty Captain in a Age of sail naval combat game, set in all of the Seven Seas! Sail the entire world: conquering, boarding, plundering, exploring and trading along the way! Gather your crew, ready your ship, hoist your sails and enter a world of swashbuckling and piracy!

Why similar: Sailing 29.3% ★, Pirates 29% ★, Naval Combat 26.3% ★, Open World 9.9%, Exploration 2.4%

Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.

Why similar: Survival 18.3%, Open World 16.2%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Crafting 13.9%, Multiplayer 9%

Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask

Why similar: MMORPG 26.3% ★, Survival 16.5%, Open World 15.6%, Crafting 13.9%, Base Building 8.9%

Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!

Why similar: Open World 19.8%, Survival 19.6%, Crafting 16.3%, MMORPG 11.9% ★, Sandbox 8.9%