Worlds Adrift

I know this game has been mentioned on the forums a handful of times over the years but I've never seen anything about it since like 2015.


• Emergent Stories
Worlds Adrift is an MMO Sandbox where thousands of players explore a physical and persistent world with the freedom to set their own objectives. This creates an unpredictable environment, rich with the potential for emergent gameplay. Every encounter with creatures, players or new islands will bring with them new threats, experiences and conflicts.

• Work Together or Alone
Wander the skies as a nomad or form crews to aid one another in exploration and ship building. Pool resources to travel more safely and build greater skyships, or risk your life stowing away on an enemy ship. The choice is yours.

• Skills-Based Gameplay
There are no ‘levels’ or ‘levelling up’ in Worlds Adrift. Everything you do - from exploring forgotten ruins to defending your ship from other players and creatures, depends on the creativity and skills that you learn as you play.

• Freeform Co-op & PVP
As an open sandbox game, you must choose your allies carefully and be cautious when your crew encounters others who seek the same treasures. However, cooperating reaps rewards - craft and share items, show solidarity in team colors, and collaborate to build the most ambitious of skyships.

• Player Agility & Freedom
With your trusty grappling hook, learn to scale the tallest towers and swing in between flying skyships with elegance. The freeform climbing system lets you climb on any surface and explore hard to reach areas - if you see it, you can reach it.

• Build Your Ultimate Ship
From an agile skyship to a multi-story battle frigate, capable of withstanding the most brutal storms and attacks - explore the world to find and learn what you need to build your ultimate skyship.

• Customize Your Ship
Build engines, wings, cannons, sails and even decorative parts for your ship. Your skyship design will have direct consequences on its performance and handling. Will yours survive a storm wall?

• Adapt & Specialise Your Design
Players will need to explore and scan the world to unlock ‘Knowledge’. This can be used to unlock schematics for advanced equipment, enabling specialisation and the building of more versatile skyships.

• Craft Equipment to Aid Survival
The world is full of dangers, and each biome presents new challenges. Craft player equipment to help you survive the elements, reach new destinations, and even manipulate the world around you.

• A Hand-Crafted Experience
The first game whose map is created by the community - each island in Worlds Adrift is hand crafted, resulting in a rich, varied game world. The world will continuously evolves as more islands are added - submit your own design and rate your favourite islands with the FREE Island Creator Tool

• Skies Teeming With Life
While shattered, the world is full of wildlife that is influenced by and reacts to players. Creatures feed, migrate and breed, they are predators and prey in a fully simulated, living ecosystem. Some will go about their business until provoked, others will threaten your journey and the lives of your crew.

• A Physical, Reactive World
As you explore and experiment, you will discover how responsive the world is. Pillage all vegetation on an island and creatures will travel elsewhere to graze. Tether a trunk to your ship to create a makeshift battering ram. We challenge you to surprise us with your creativity!

• Persistence - Leave Your Mark
Worlds Adrift features persistency and consequence. You’ll leave behind hints of your story that other players will discover, just like you will discover the shipwrecks of other players, scavenging their rusted, rotted debris, and piece together the history of their adventures.

• Cutting Edge Technology
Worlds Adrift is the first game to use Improbable's SpatialOS technology, which enables the simulation of real-world physics on a scale never achieved before, for thousands of players in real-time.

There's also a very fucking cool Island Creator already out and available on steam to use to be put into the game. Seems very real to the sandbox idea.



Island Creator - Worlds Adrift

The Worlds Adrift Island Creator is a free and powerful tool that lets you design and play your own floating islands in the sky. Amongst Worlds Adrift’s universe of thousands of procedurally generated islands, we want to involve you, the community, with the chance to submit your own island creations to be featured in the final game for everyone to discover.

Build your island using a range of shapes and customise its appearance with textures and objects from the game world. Once you’re happy with your design, switch across to play mode and explore your island from a player’s perspective, all within the tool. Browse Steam Workshop to discover islands that have already been submitted by the community, ready for you to test and rate. The only limit is your imagination.

Submit your islands and help shape the universe of Worlds Adrift!

Daidraco said:

Are the graphics Asherons Call level because of how destructible the environment is.. or what?...

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There is a low color low poly aesthetic that is rather large the last year or so, it's more like that rather than just shitty textures. The Island Maker thing they have in is great, uses all the assets from the game (I assume?) and they're pretty good quality.

Dunno bout the rest of the game though, looks like it has a long way to go.