When did Atlas come out?

Atlas was released on 22 December 2018 for Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Atlas (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Atlas

ATLAS: The ultimate survival MMO of unprecedented scale with 40,000+ simultaneous players in the same world. Join an endless adventure of piracy & sailing, exploration & combat, roleplaying & progression…

22 December 2018

What Atlas is

Atlas is an adventure game developed by Grapeshot Games and released in 2018. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

ATLAS: The ultimate survival MMO of unprecedented scale with 40,000+ simultaneous players in the same world. Join an endless adventure of piracy & sailing, exploration & combat, roleplaying & progression, settlement & civilization-building, in one of the largest game worlds ever! Explore, Build, Conquer! A massively multiplayer first-and-third-person fantasy pirate adventure. ATLAS will host up to 40,000 players exploring the same Globe simultaneously, with an unprecedented scale of cooperation and conflict! Stake your claim in this endless open world as you conquer territory, construct ships, search for buried treasure, assemble forts, plunder settlements and hire crew to join your…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Atlas launched on 22 December 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Dusk and Ashen. It arrived 5 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Dusk, Ashen.

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