Floating up out of the drydock of closed beta, Worlds Adrift launched into the bright blue skies of early access today. The airship sandbox drummed up hype for the release with a publicity stunt that involved hauling a batch of players high up into the air over London to try out the game. (The first livestream in the sky? Why not!)
“Worlds Adrift is now releasing to Steam Early Access,” Bossa Studios trumpeted. “This means we have opened up additional servers for both US and EU regions, and will release more servers depending on player population. The UI for the character creation screen has been adjusted to make it easier to pick a server to play on.”
With the early access start comes a full wipe and a new build that includes a different layout, additional islands, new clothing items, double the amount of ancient written stories, all-new music, and plenty of bug fixes.
The early access client is on sale at 10% off through May 23rd, meaning that you can pick it up for just $22.49. There’s a new trailer:
And a retrospective:
And here’s a look at our best streams of the game:
Get caught up on all our coverage to date!
Worlds Adrift will let you be a nomad of the skies
Worlds Adrift explains why it can’t disable PvP
Worlds Adrift dev blog shows early character designs
Worlds Adrift procedurally generates ‘amazing’ islands
Here’s how you build your airship in Worlds Adrift
Worlds Adrift details the design of a steering wheel
Worlds Adrift team shows off gliders, cameras, and more
Worlds Adrift shows some real emotion
Worlds Adrift gets a trailer for a trailer
Worlds Adrift gets a full gameplay trailer
You can kill people with trees in Worlds Adrift
Bossa Studios boss on Worlds Adrift’s business model, PvP, and more
Worlds Adrift developers offer up a half-hour developer walkthrough
Worlds Adrift previews its creature-based ecology
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Moral panic and online griefing
Worlds Adrift UI is a mixture of the ‘diegetic’ and the traditional
516 characters died during Worlds Adrift’s first alpha test
Worlds Adrift demos alpha progress
Worlds Adrift gears up for an exciting 2016
Worlds Adrift is hosting a creative writing contest
Improbable wants to build better MMO worlds
Worlds Adrift gives a glimpse of its lush flora
Can whales fly? Worlds Adrift says ‘absolutely!’
Worlds Adrift answers community questions, talks inspiration
Worlds Adrift opens player alliance creation
Worlds Adrift’s sky whales are the gentle giants of the clouds
Worlds Adrift includes US players in next playtest
Glide and grapple your way through Worlds Adrift’s island exploration video
Worlds Adrift’s composer shares a morsel of the soundtrack
Worlds Adrift launching soon, teases an incoming community tool
Worlds Adrift details the dangers of its weather walls
Cower in fear before Worlds Adrift’s manta rays
Worlds Adrift walks down the fashion runway
Worlds Adrift’s free Island Creator tool has launched on Steam
Worlds Adrift’s deserts aren’t deserted
Players have already built nearly 1000 islands in Worlds Adrift’s creator tool
All the islands in the latest Worlds Adrift video were built by players
Worlds Adrift shows off the features of its island creator
Worlds Adrift’s writer cites Gulliver’s Travels as inspiration
Worlds Adrift’s island creator is a hit with its community
Worlds Adrift dev blog addresses visual effects
Worlds Adrift’s emblem creator tool is now online
Worlds Adrift gets a huge injection of funding
Worlds Adrift trailer showcases shipbuilding
Take a long guided tour of Worlds Adrift
Worlds Adrift kicks off alpha signups with new trailer
Worlds Adrift player chronicles alpha life
Worlds Adrift’s alpha playtest: Stealing boats and killing mynocks
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Worlds Adrift heralds alpha playtest signups with new trailer
Worlds Adrift announces Q1 2017 early access launch
Worlds Adrift takes on new team members as alpha 5 begins
Improbable teams up with Google to make persistent world development easier
A ‘new chapter’ is coming next year for Worlds Adrift
Worlds Adrift turns on global illumination
The Stream Team: A first look at Worlds Adrift
Worlds Adrift attempts to make the fastest ship ever
Worlds Adrift preps next alpha round with biome, lighting, and respawn tweaks
MMO Mechanics: 2017’s take on the sandbox MMO
Cooking and zone progression come to Worlds Adrift
Worlds Adrift delays closed beta by ‘a few weeks’
Worlds Adrift shows off player-made islands debuting with the beta
Virtual world creator Improbable receives $502M investment from SoftBank
RuneScape’s Jagex is the latest MMORPG studio to employ Improbable’s SpatialOS
Worlds Adrift’s closed beta begins Wednesday
Improbable’s plan for rescuing the MMO genre from ‘nuclear winter’ involves a crapton of money
Worlds Adrift’s closed beta has begun, founder packs are now on sale
Worlds Adrift’s closed beta turnout exceeded studio expectations
Worlds Adrift’s character creation options will be limited at launch
MMO veteran Bill Roper joins SpatialOS dev Improbable
Worlds Adrift offers an update on the next batch of Founder’s Packs
Worlds Adrift beta trailer demos player-designed islands
Worlds Adrift adds more test servers, says median play time is 15 hours
Here’s how to build your first Worlds Adrift airship
Worlds Adrift has made more founders packs available
Worlds Adrift update makes ships stronger and the environment more dangerous
Worlds Adrift adds ship pulses and ship part rotations with its newest patch
Worlds Adrift introducing anti-cheat measures sooner than anticipated
Worlds Adrift previews the new mechanics coming to island creation
Worlds Adrift responds to player PvP feedback
Worlds Adrift patches its free Island Creator, releases founder packs today
Worlds Adrift dev Bossa Studios picks up $10M in investor funding
Worlds Adrift is making it easier to play well with others
Worlds Adrift players build a bridge to link islands… out of ships.
Halloween events across the MMORPG verse, 2017 edition
Worlds Adrift gifts players with a spooky costume
Worlds Adrift discovers a bird-obsessed culture
Worlds Adrift’s 0.1.5 update is almost ready, but the world wipe won’t come ’til after Christmas
Christmas happenings in DCUO, Overwatch, Worlds Adrift, and Neverwinter
Worlds Adrift’s team had a blast in 2017
Chronicles of Elyria is dropping virtual world platform SpatialOS
Swivel guns and a wipe are making their way to Worlds Adrift
Worlds Adrift squashes bugs and previews settings windows for its next patch
Worlds Adrift looks forward to the next two patches
Fireflies and flocks of seagulls: Worlds Adrift adds beautiful touches to island creation
Worlds Adrift fears not this Blight
Worlds Adrift works on lag problems and boasts a crapton of new hires
Worlds Adrift is trying to melt its servers and getting rid of a major currency
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
Worlds Adrift adds 300 brand-new player-made islands to its early access build
World Adrift posts its public roadmap, improves climbing so it doesn’t kill you
Worlds Adrift heads into early access next month
Worlds Adrift plans to launch by launching a real-life skyship
The Stream Team: Skydiving back into Worlds Adrift
Worlds Adrift launches on Steam early access while overseen by actual airship
First impressions of Worlds Adrift: Innovation, Zelda, open-world PvP, and that sinking feeling
Worlds Adrift admits early-game PvP griefing is a big problem and vows to address it
Worlds Adrift team recaps launch event in the sky and patch rollout
Worlds Adrift starts work on countering PvP griefing, but tells players to get better
Worlds Adrift teaches you to git gud, promises instruments someday
E3 2018: Bill Roper on gaming’s smoke and mirrors, Worlds Adrift, and building on SpatialOS
E3 2018: Hands-on with Mavericks, the MMO battle royale hybrid
Worlds Adrift postpones this week’s patch, The Guardian compares it to Fortnite
Interview: Worlds Adrift’s Bossa Studios on giving, griefing, and gittin’ gud
Worlds Adrift works on getting new audio for characters getting injured (and burping)
Worlds Adrift updates players on progress in the midst of a heat wave
Worlds Adrift will be launching its test server soon
Chinese MMO company NetEase invests $50M into SpatialOS MMO platform
Worlds Adrift announces its first player council, says the playerbase will pick the next round
Worlds Adrift promises that the developers are working on fixing lag
Worlds Adrift tests alliances on the new PTS, tackles update 27’s gear damage and PvE biomes
Worlds Adrift gets ready for a big content update — and a big wipe
Worlds Adrift’s 26th update is due to launch tomorrow with the alliance system
Worlds Adrift’s latest update adds Alliances, tunes netcode, and fixes bugs
Worlds Adrift previews PvE ruleset and new tutorial experience on its PTS
Former BioWare GM joins SpatialOS creator Improbable
Worlds Adrift’s October 9th update will come with a server wipe
Worlds Adrift is launching PvE servers today – if the griefing put you off, give it another look
MMO Business Roundup: Bethsoft Moscow, A:IR publishing, OSU esports, SpatialOS, and Square-Enix
Worlds Adrift says PvE servers didn’t ‘split a tiny playerbase’ but instead ‘added to it’
Worlds Adrift’s new tutorial video helps you get into the game
Worlds Adrift posts Stairway to Haven tutorial video, opens community council nominations
Jukebox Heroes: Worlds Adrift’s soundtrack
Worlds Adrift toggles on proximity-based voice chat, engine overheating, and ciphers
Epic and Improbable pledge $25M to rescue MMO studios affected by Unity’s SpatialOS license suspension
With the Improbable/Unity dispute lingering on, MMOs like Worlds Adrift are literally adrift
Steam’s Lunar New Year Sale is offering a discount on your first $30 in purchases
Worlds Adrift struggles to grow, changes course to focus on tech
April Fools’ Day around the MMOverse, 2019 edition
Worlds Adrift’s May update improves the Blight, knowledge, and ship storage
Worlds Adrift to close in July with ‘End of the World Party’
Worlds Adrift is launching one last patch and character wipe before it sunsets in July
Worlds Adrift’s final patch before sunset is now up – along with the game’s soundtrack
Worlds Adrift will host an End of the World event before its sunset tomorrow
The Stream Team: Say good-bye as Worlds Adrift floats into the sunset
Alpha MMO battle royale Mavericks has been canceled as its company enters bankruptcy
Bossa Studios on why Worlds Adrift failed and what’s next
Improbable and Tencent join forces to bring SpatialOS and a developer program to China
The best Massively OP streams of 2019
Fight or Kite: Griefing! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
SpatialOS developer Improbable reports $81 million in operating losses
Chronicles of Elyria just dropped a new mood and gameplay video
Jukebox Heroes: The ultimate guide to MMORPG music
Bossa Studios introduces three new multiplayer titles: Project Meru, Darkseekers, and Room of Doom
SpatialOS developer Improbable announces a ‘network of interoperable web3 metaverses’ called M²
Bossa Studios CEO discusses company’s shift towards co-op and PvE multiplayer titles
Bossa Games is back in the MMO space with Lost Skies, an obviously Worlds Adrift-inspired co-op title
Bossa shows off Lost Skies’ art and animation development
Lost Skies is bringing back the beloved Worlds Adrift island creator with new features and tools
Lost Skies previews a menagerie of critters in various stages of creation and development
Lost Skies blogs about more ship parts, hand tools, and creating a ‘shrimpy monstrosity’
Lost Skies shows a snippet of gameplay while it gets ready to send out more beta keys
Bossa Games’ post-Worlds Adrift co-op game, Lost Skies, heads into pre-alpha
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Source: Steam
