ATLYSS similar games & best alternatives

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ATLYSS

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2024

Should you play it?

Enter the world of ATLYSS, a Singleplayer/Online RPG where you can fight with or against friends in a surreal world filled with creatures beyond comprehension. Customize and progress your character(s), complete quests, and discover strange locations.

What works

  • Engaging and fluid combat
  • Extensive character customization
  • Nostalgic ps1/ps2 style graphics
  • Cooperative multiplayer and private servers
  • Active solo developer with frequent updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Some community toxicity
  • Early access content is limited
  • Difficulty spikes and balance issues
  • Multiplayer lag and disconnects reported
  • Lack of pause function and ui polish

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • Mycopunk

  • Dungeon Defenders II

  • Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization Deluxe Edition

  • Abyssus

  • Onirism

More competitive

Games that feels like ATLYSS but with more competition against others

  • Vellum

  • Nevergrind Online

  • Orcs Must Die! 2

  • Heretic + Hexen

  • Crab Champions

  • Final Exam

Less expressive

Games that feels like ATLYSS but with less self-expression and customization

  • CastleMiner Z

  • Unsung Warriors - Prologue

  • Atomic Picnic

  • LORT

  • Risk of Rain 2

  • Absolum

Less intimate

Games that feels like ATLYSS but with less focus on close relationships

  • Erenshor

  • 3089 -- Futuristic Action RPG

  • 5089: The Action RPG

  • First Dwarf

  • LOST EPIC

  • DYSPLACED

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  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
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Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with ATLYSS. These titles are not in What to play next.

ATLYSS: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Status.

Last update: 21/08/2026