Being a veteran of this game, and a founder of worlds adrift, I couldn't stop crying during the final event that shut down the game... that sky whale was amazing, so I really hope that voids adrift is enough to get bossa to bring Worlds Adrift back...

Well this opened old wounds and now im going to be depressed the rest of the day...

I never got an advertisement for this game. Real shame, I would of enjoyed this

I liked this game so much more than Sea Of Thieves because of the progression and that you could actually upgrade your ship... So sad it's gone

What killed this game was a company unwilling to support the dev team that was actually pretty dedicated to it. The game was incredibly fun, and the playerbase was fantastic. There was some talk from the devteam about making it open source so people could either run servers, or the community could try and get a pseudo-official server back up, but Bossa was unwilling to let the IP go even though they were doing nothing with it. Honestly the whole shutdown process was a huge mess. Originally there was going to be no sort of compensation. For early backers (such as myself), who had dropped 60+ USD on the game, it was absurd. What we got in return was copies of their other, totally mediocre and disinteresting games. Obviously a refund would have been absurd, but I'd MUCH rather have gotten a release of the sourcecode (even if it came with 0 support).

I got one of the founder packs back in the day, world's adrift gave me so many adventures I really miss it

If I ever get rich Im buying the rights to this game. It was plagued by Pirates tho which was a lot of fun but could be annoying. Really really good roleplaying too. Best times Ive ever had in a video game since. Meeting a stranger on an island was always an experience whether they were hostile or not. A guy role playing as Santa Clause saved me a and friend I met from our ship getting stolen by distracting the pirates. I almost cried because of how genuine the interactions were. Santa even built a tiny ship that looked like a sleigh. This game had more potential than any other on the market.

It was such a unique experience and I can say it was by far my favorite game of all time. I went from discovering the game by chance when I was looking for a new mmo back in 2015, played closed alpha and did some mild streaming there, got into a group with the idea of being the bad guys later on in EA, learned what large scale fleet battles were about, and had the time of my life sailing the skies in a Shark Boat.

What sucks is that if this game released today with a simple 4-player co-op mode rather than an mmo style set-up and with some more enemies to fight, it'd be successful. Reading comments on the steam page for the island creator, seeing how much games like Raft have taken off after it's 1.0 update dropped, Grounded right around the corner. This game would blow up today.

I own this game. I refuse to uninstall it because I don't want it to leave. I never got to play more than an hour of it because my computer wasn't powerful enough. If Voids Adrift becomes a reality, I will support the developers as much as I can afford. Thank you to Worlds Adrift for the short time we had together.

i would love to play it

Thank you so much for breaking my heart again... I thought I already grieved enough the shutting of the servers.

i remember being so hyped during the pre release, A classmate told me about this upcomming game. just made a clan and fucked around on the forums. Once the island creator finally released i jumped into that day one. Most islands were pretty shit back then so my creation reached the top page for a while. Me and some other guy also figured out how to share assets between our island creators, i remember making a thread about that on the forums lmao. Back then we were the first to find out how to do that. Stuff felt cool as hell.Its super cool when you feel like you can contribute to the game you enjoy. I think some people started sharing custom groups as assets after that. They might have added it as a supported functionality after i quit the game but idk. Last time i played it was 2016. ended up never buying the game because during the alpha i realized that the gameplay was not really there. It seemed like the game was so far away from having fun gameplay. also my pc couldnt handle the alpha at all. and I started college the next year :(. 4-8 hours of math homework each day after school really messed with my gaming time.

I am an island creator for the game, I've made 5 islands in total and 4 of them got into the game, the reason was one of them was lagging the server. It was so nice to be able to bring such awe-inspiring islands to the players, it's such a memorable experience. Although some hated them for being so huge, at least players were able to gather together and hosted a farewell party for the game and took a screenshot with the word "BYE" on a floating board.

The game looks super fun! Shame it had to go. Reminds me of a another super fun game: Sky Noon. That one is also really underrated. Also I love this new type of content!

This hit hard, worlds adrift was one of my all time favorite games and i remember playing it with my dad when it was released, I was so sad to see it go and i hope one day, some developer decides to open up that hardrive on their computer at Bossa studios (I know its there somewhere) and relaunches the game.

best game ever!

Bro I can’t believe I never heard about this game. It looks so amazing. It sucks that it’s ended.

who's cutting onions

Watched it again and damn. No videos or explanations can truly give this game justice. It's a mmo in it's truest form. All islands are real people's ideas. Hand crafted. All people you meet in game. Real people. You can walk up to someone and talk to them through local proximity chat. Animals. Although not optimized and dream forgotten for performance reasons. Were meant to be functioning ecosystems with feeding, aging, and breeding. You used to be able to. With a extreme amount of dedication. Clear multiple islands or maybe even an entire zone from a species for awhile. The community in this game was absolutely amazing. The developers offered no cheat sheet. People independently studied a materiels properties and how they effected different ship components very precisely. To the point where they can calculate the results of certain items before a ship was even built. Every dedicated player knew the basics of these sheets by heart. Like how to get the best lift out of a sky core. And all of them kept the links and cheat sheets. Then there was the islands and zones. There were a number of community made maps dispersed throughout the game community through steam, discord, and most amazingly; word of mouth from the people you'd meet working on their ships in game. Seeing it was such an amazing vibe. Once each wipes map was mapped. There were very clear hit spots discovered. Some servers had their own trading outposts where people liked to essentially set up shop. Some places were very common spots to simply hang out. People would bring pub inspired ships. Or giant ships with logos or that are essentially flying homes to events. I'm getting off topic. But experiences like that makes it feel a lot more than just a game. The world had worth. The world lead to so many memories and friendships. Each player and ship had a story. Each person you interacted with positive or negatively. Had a really real effect on people. It certainly gets it's tile for being a mmo. Likely the best one I'll ever play. If you're looking for similar vibes. My current suggestion is the game called Starbase. Almost completely different theme. But has some similarities in terms of being a social massively multiplayer game with a huge scale. Beautiful scenery. Amazing soundtrack that fits perfectly. Ship building. And a similar very respectful progression grind. That's completely different then most mmos.

i feel like the concept of this game can be refined into something amazing because their was no other game like it

no other game gave me so much freedom and crativity as worlds adrift. I loved thinking of new ways to build a ship, mastering materials, everything, even finding rare gear to look cool. meeting random people, pirates, geting destroyed. starting again with a blank sleeve, but better :) or hitting a JACKPOT when finding a long overlooked chest full of stuf or findig som elegendary engine! :D man i loved this game. My heart still aches that its gone. This would be my lifelong game love. I really hope and pray, that maybe one day will someone pick it up. and bring it back even better as it was. the athmosphere was surreal. the vertigo i got from ingame jumping arround or falling thruu an island felt crazy :) and... i was there... at the end, with all of the poeple, watching the leviathan appear for the first time. I was there, when all the island sunk below the mist. i was there and i was sad but happy i could enjoy this game.

I only found out Worlds Adrift was a thing about a month after it was shut down... I was really quite devastated, it looked like a lot of fun.

I absolutely loved this game while it lasted; I had so many fond memories on it. I can hope, maybe one day, that it’s revived in some form or another.

It's so sad to see something as cool as this get shut down

I had world's adrift back when I was using a shitty Toshiba satellite laptop. It barely ran the game, but I still absolutely loved it. The game shut down a few months before I got my first actual PC, so I never experienced the game to its fullest potential. I hope to see a return, but I know it won't happen. The game might be dead, but it's spirit will live on in our hearts.

When I first heard about voids I was exited, but now I’m kinda disappointed. They mainly just write stories last time I checked and the thing is, Dani literally made a 10 minute tutorial of how to make a grappling hook 3 years ago, grappling hooks aren’t the hardest thing in the world

Had so much fun with my crew on this game (Green Pearl) and also with Anne defending her against other pirates

As another player of worlds of adrift I agree it had so much potential but they let it die which makes me upset that it did. I am now having sad vibes!

Oh my goodness, now I want the game back even more! Thanks Aci, now I'm sad! No seriously, thanks, I think I needed to be reminded of the game and the fond memories I have of it! Worlds Adrift actually was what I imagine to be the perfect game, despite my internet not allowing serious Worlds Adrift gameplay. For me if a game has clunky or janky movement, the entire game would feel terrible, but the movement in Worlds Adrift felt good, it felt natural! The sense of scale was also incredible, just by standing in awe of the size of a storm wall! The community was also great, and I think it might have been better than Deep Rock Galactic's current community, which is saying a lot! Two people (Bliznarn and Cakey were their usernames!) gave me a glider at my starting island! Someone gave me a ride to a larger island! Someone helped me build a ship for 30 to 40 minutes! I was one of the many people who purchased the Captain's Founder's Pack, and I honestly don't regret purchasing it. Of course I did flaunt the exclusive sail, flag, scarf, and such whenever possible! My name is actually in the "Founding Captains" part of the website! Not trying to toot my own horn, though. I think I might have even met IGP in-game! I can't prove it as it wasn't something he recorded and I didn't get a screenshot, but I swear I did! One of my fondest memories is when two people hijacked my ship, and while the ship really had nothing of value and was ugly, it still mattered to me! Honestly the combat was fantastic, even though there was only one hand-held weapon. (not counting time bombs) I feel like I would have enjoyed the game a lot more at my current age compared to how I was 2 years ago.

i rember this game never played but I always wanted to .

Played it extensively in its early days. There was actually a short story I wrote about an experience I had in the game (in which I spent 30 minutes enacting a hairbrained revenge scheme against the wrong crew and was rightfully executed by an innocent skipper) that the devs printed onto a poster and displayed at their booth at some event. Unfortunately, all I have left of it is a photo of the poster; was titled "The Saga of Blast Hardcheese: Misadventures in Petty Revenge" (I think) if any people are better at recovering stuff than I am.

Man, one of the main reasons I was intending to finally get a PC was Worlds Adrift, so you can imagine my pain when the game shut down only a couple months before I got it.

actually the best comparison with this game is windforge, windforge is basically the same game but in 2d and older

Nice video man, it was fun to watch. Also, Community Tab Squad let's go!

The first time you got a shitty little sky raft to lift off and go to another island was such an amazing experience

I miss this game so much! I spent hours just exploring, checking out islands, and running into other player was always a unique and funny encounter

Even as rough as it sometimes was, this was one of my favorite games of all time. It was sooo good.

I miss this game so much, the only other game that scratched the itch a bit was Sea of Thieves, but even that hasn't come close to satisfying the need Worlds Adrift used to satisfy. I love the MMO aspect but the gameplay was so fun I wish they had worked on a singleplayer survival kind of thing, just so that we could still play the damn game.

Very happy to see some appreciate for this jewel of a game. I played quite a lot of Worlds Adrift, my main account was over 2500 hours and I had 6 accounts total. It was useful to be able to 'store' multiple ships and loot and I felt happy about supporting the project. I will always remember my boys in the Beaver Dam. Obviously a project bleeding money like would be a driving factor in it being shut down. However I do think there were some things about what led to it shut down that are worth mentioning. WA was an in-developement game being built on an in-developement engine, it started out well but over time performance got worse and worse and i do believe the is the main reason it failed to gain traction. The game was not able to be moved to later versions of the engine without massive amounts of work. Although the game was losing money it was imperative to get the game running smoothly before they could truly advertise and populate the worlds beyond its small but enamored community. After the 4th major update performance took a critical hit and did not improve. Near the end any sort of combat between two ships led to unplayable lag, but in the beginning we had massive multi-ship battles with, compared to the 'end days', really had minimal issues.

I remember the hype for this game when it first entered early access; so disappointed that it never took off, it had such crazy potential especially with the mechanic of upgrading your ship. I would be obsessing over this game if they actually went through with it, hopefully someone can rework the idea into something truly spectacular in the future. I seriously think this could have been as big as minecraft with enough content; so sad they had to shut it down in its infancy.

god, i miss this game.... it was the gold standard for MMOs imo. no bullshit level grinding or constant expansions, just you, the players, and the world.

Ahh...the nostalgia hit back with full force. I wanna cry now!! TT_TT

I played the game and in memory of it my discord status is forever set to Worlds adrift veteran

I saw a ton of videos about building ships, exploring, cool air battles... But actually it was logging in, people following you until you have a lot of resources, kill you and rob everything. After several attempts I managed to survive and build a ship. But air battles were several people hooking stealthy onto your ship, dismantling your respawn point and kill you. It was a paradise for ganking, grief and noob bashing. There wasn't a day going by new players addressing this issue and all they heard it's supposed to be like that. Suprise the game died out. New players didn't enjoy it, because it was nothing like the videos with building, exploration and ships shooting each other. It was teams shooting you as soon as you got near an island and steal your stuff and ship. With nobody to harass the older players also died out.

anyone just come back to say goodbye ...feels bad

If I ever get into game development I would definitely make a game featuring team-vs-team battles on giant Laputa-style airships.

Got the pioneer edition of the game as soon as it came out, still one of my all-time favorites. God I miss this game so much

Goddamn this was a piece of art

I first got into worlds adrift from the Shadowfrax video, and I loved every second I played. I wish Bossa would allow people to pay them to server host for them.

i saw this when it came out but i was 14 at the time nor did i have a strong enough computer but the game was, and i cannot stress this enough, *EVERYTHING* i was looking for in a game, as in: crafting system, different benefits of resources instead of just being direct upgrades from one another, completely customizable ships and not being stuck to grid systems, mmo, space related, pvp and pve, open world, so on and so forth. so after i saw this game i imediatly fell in love, so i started saving. as soon as i was close to saving enough for a better pc and the game, it closed its servers and i was heart broken that i never got to play my perfect game. but now that im seeing voids adrift is a thing, im glad ive still got that better pc (average now lol) to follow its journey now, and maybe even do concept art of my own for it seeing as im a decent artist now

Me and my friend still bring this game up every so often. Nothing quite scratches that itch for us yet.

I remember loving igp playing it but then it did just disappear

many times it happens that some project does not achieve it but puts the seeds of others who will return it

Can we get the worlds adrift community to start a petition to Bossa Studios to bring this game back. This was without a doubt the best gaming experience I have had since Minecraft released when I was a kid. I haven't met a single person who played world's adrift that doesn't miss it and wishes we could still play😪😪 miss you worlds adrift

The main reason we didn't manage to get access to host our own servers was due to the propriety server engine and physics engine they were using. The community even offered to help fixes some of the bugs for free but that was a no-go due to Bossa having to release their source code and in-game Dev that is a no-no if you don't want another game company to try and outflank you with it.

I loved this game, played it from Alpha till close. Thanks for the Voids Adrift discord.

Another important reason was licensed software, which was not only very expensive, but prevented private servers after the shutdown

I just realized that this video came out the day after my birthday. XD I miss this game usually weekly when I pass my eyesight over the discord server. This game hit so many amazing notes and feeling and there has been nothing like it since. It was the game I never knew I so desperately wanted until I was given a copy. I pray that this game will be given another chance so that I can climb the tallest building to sing praise of it once more.

I started to play Worlds Adrift on my laptop and i lost count of how many hours i had on the game. I remember I hadn't played the game in a long time and about the time i was looking to get a pc again the game had just announced the End was coming. I didnt get to play it after that but the way they had all of the different environments divided off by the storms made it soooooo fun. Maybe one day we can all ride the skies again.

You got your wish... LOST SKIES.

only got to play for one glorious 4 hour session. it took me and my group the entire session to build a... mostly functioning boat. It was a perfect example of "Ape together strong" getting that thing working. wish the game was still around. Also the grapple hook is the best grapple hook put into any game. you could get yourself killed a lot but MAN when you get a string of great swings or just successfully hanging off the side of a cliff with that thing it felt SO GOOD. I hope Voids Adrift works out

I sure had some good times in this game, and made alot of friends. It really is a shame that its gone...

Great video!

I always had my eyes on this game, but never tried it due to reviews that wrote that there was serious pirate clan problems, and I usually enjoy solo gameplay styles I knew I would not stand a chance. Regardless, the world, style and feel of the game that I saw in videos kept bringing my attention back to it. When I finally got around to wanting to try the game, it wad no longer there. I never thought such a game would cease to exist, just seemed to unique for that to happen. I really hope it can be resurrected, so many, limitless possibilities to bring this game towards.

I used to roam around on my silly boat meeting players and trading in clothes, I would also play them a nice little tune using the ingame guitar system and they often gave me stuff in exchange for some entertainment. I miss this game so much, wish it'd come back...

I really love a game like this, survival that allow player to design and build their own ship or vehicle then we can live in it. I bored of build a house or base and stick in one place. Me and my friends made it through the sand storm in world adrift with our flying house almost get destroy. We cover all our window even at the cockpit room and left only one window for me which I am the pilot and I can only watch at compass height level and only front window. When we finally made it out from sandstorm, we were so happy. I really miss world adrift please make more game like this.

i remember i met 2 russian guys and we went around together and we all crossed the wind wall and were so happy

I never even got to play this game. I watched a youtuber play it and was looking forward to getting a computer so I could play it myself and then the youtuber stopped playing it and I didn't know why. I forgot about it and am only just now learning that it's gone for good. I'm crying rn.

Such a cool video as every time!

I always felt it was such a big waste not allow private servers. Maybe then then it could have a chance at coming back

we all remember the first time going through each of the walls.

I played this game back in 2018 and was sad to find out this..

First time hearing of it. Too bad it was canceled because I would have LOVED to play this with my friends

I just wish they allowed us to make our own servers.

I only heard of this today and I really wish I had the chance to try this out

Always fun to revisit the old WA.

IT'S COMING BACK, LOST SKIES ON STEAM

I had high hopes for this game and enjoyed every minute in it. It was kind of a slap in the face that they didn't try to give us a singleplayer version or even host our own servers. Instead they just got rid of a game that to this day was so unique you can't find a similar experience. I wonder how Voids Adrift will perform since this video is 3 years old and you can't really see much on steam today.

I would love to see voids take the place and go farther than worlds went, I think it and its dev team have the potential to make voids what Bossa wouldn't and what worlds couldn't be. I have high hopes that voids will do more than worlds, though I will remember that voids would not be here if worlds didn't exist. hope that voids lasts longer than worlds did.

I have hope for Voids Adrift. Looking at some of their new grappling videos makes me happy for the future. Worlds Adrift will always have a place in my heart

I always watch vids about worlds adrift about 4 years and forgot about it and been searching for years now, i never knew it ended

I remember watching some youtubers playing this game back in.. was it 2018? I don't remember. It was so fun to watch! Seing this video made me really nostalgic.

Loved the game, put 700+ hours into it. I can tell you, so many of the thumbs down that happened was purely because of the griefing. So many people much like I did, joined the game and right after spawning spent the next several hours of game play getting blown up. Initially they told everyone the game was about pirating. Except that's not what was happening. They didn't want your resources, they just wanted to blow up your dingy that didn't even have storage on it. Everyone was scared to make friends in game because people would act friendly then dismantle your atlas core while you're flying between islands and there goes your ship. It got so bad that they released a video trying to explain to people the difference between griefing and PVP. However at that point the game's already lost. People had been begging for a PVE server, or at least make tier 1 maybe even tier 2 zones PVP free so people could at least learn the game and get off the ground. They eventually did it but that was basically when the game was 6 months from closing down. The PVP servers were barren, I was on the PVE server and I can say it was the best time I had in the entire game. I could explore, work on my ship, go through obstacle courses with hazards and turrets. And any time I actually wanted to do PVP, there was the tier four zone I could go to. They brought in so many people that were dazzled by the ship building, island building, exploration... They were open to PVP but were chased away by the griefing. Bossa didn't take those people seriously enough and that's what did the game in. They were chased off, and others discouraged from joining.

I barely even got my first cannon and engine, and I would still give so much to get the game back.

Absolutely fucking adored this game. Wish it makes some sort of comeback.

Yo! The "airship" was boat sized. There were no skywhales, but there was only one skywhale at the very end of the game. Only the silhouette was visible in the sky, it was uninteractable. The devs were showing it before the final shutdown of the game.

I really enjoy the island creator. I'm sorry I wasn't there for the game. I'd love this game to get a VR port

So I found worlds adrift through IP years back, and I only found out it had been closed last year and I was devastated because I desperately wanted to play it

The video missed two critical points. The first is that there were guilds, and they were very active. The other issue is the real reason why they were bogged down with tech issues. WA used a physics sim to track ALL movement in the game. ALL OF IT. ALL OF THE TIME. It was extremely resource heavy, and Bossa didn't develop the server tech; they leased/rented it. Every time the server service changed, it would break Worlds Adrift. They took a shortcut, and this left them at the mercy of another party.

this just made me remember about gigantic and now i’m sad

I miss this game so much. It was an absolute fav of mine, and I put hundreds of hours into it in just a few weeks. The community was so cool, and I love the politics that broke out within the game. Dang I look back on it with such nostalgia

It seems I heared of /saw 'Worlds Adrift' somewhere somehow, but I don't know when or how it happened. A few days ago the name of the game started popping in my head, I knew it was a game but I didn't know anything else, so I searched and that's how I ended up here

I haven't played it... But have you heard of the legendary epic The Flight of The Cube?

Surprised you didn’t touch on it at all, but the divided community might have had something to do with it. The game was originally marketed as an exploration, adventure, RPG type game (and the reason I purchased it) but further into the development devolved into a PvP, pirates free for all battle royal. To me it seems whenever a game introduces PvP a very toxic element can be introduced to the environment and sadly, that happened here. With no limits to certain areas, veterans could just waltz into a newbie’s spawn and camp them until they changed islands or servers (which sadly happened on my first play session and reeeally turned me off from the game). And yet, the option for private or PvE only servers was debated and danced around, with Team PvP complaining and tossing around statements like “if you don’t like the game/don’t have time for the game, don’t play the game.” (As if that is a viable option for someone who just dropped a minimum of $30 on the game.) I really think having the option to play on private servers or PvE only servers would have drawn back people like me, who hate forced PvP, especially when hardly grasping the basics of the game. Either that, or limiting who could enter newbie spawn areas. Not everyone has unlimited free time to learn the ropes, and getting spawn camped and ganked in the back is exactly the reason why I quit and never looked back. From a distance it seemed like a great game, but if you weren’t in a clan or “crew”…you were pretty much a dead man.

Never even realized the game had come out. I remember hearing about it way back when, but I thought it was still in development hell or something. A real freakin' shame. o__o

Im so fucking sad now. Idk what it is about this game but its the only one that gives me a heart wrenching feeling thinking about how Ill never play it again and there prob wont ever be a replacement.

I was really excited when I saw the trailer years ago, I never had a pc capable of gaming until after the server were gone if this ever gets up and running again I'll be buying

i miss this game so fucking much.. had so fun with it, both with friends and solo :(

Do you guys know if "Aloft" (in development now) is made by any from Worlds Adrift?