Observed arrival · 2026-10-26
ATLAS: The Captain Lives Aboard the Ship
An in-progress starship command game built around inhabiting the ship as captain and directing a persistent crew, rather than commanding from an abstract menu.
- For
- Players drawn to crew-focused starship command games
- Worth noticing
- The prototype lists 35 persistent named people and distinguishes accepted foundations from ship systems still being integrated.
Field notes
The prototype's listed foundations include ship motion, thrust gravity, coast zero-g, ship time, watches, physical relief, and representative CIC interaction. Its 35 named crew members have identities, needs, purposeful activity, and personnel records. The creator says ship systems first ran as a separate accepted foundation; bringing them into the six-deck playtest build is still in progress, and full combat is not complete.
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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.
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