StrategyFit check
Is Waves of the Atlantide worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- 4X strategy fans who want matches shaped by a shrinking map
- Strategy players who prefer expanding, researching, and building forces over direct-action combat
- Groups seeking online matches that can mix human players with AI opponents
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a relaxed pace may find the advancing ocean creates persistent pressure to expand and prepare forces.
- Players who prefer a broad campaign or story structure may find the described focus is on individual competitive matches.
- Players looking for a non-strategy game may not want its territory, economy, technology, and army management.
Our take on Waves of the Atlantide
The defining constraint is a continent that steadily disappears beneath the ocean, making expansion a race against the map itself.
What is Waves of the Atlantide?
Waves of the Atlantide is a 4X real-time strategy game set on a shrinking continent.
Explore to locate the ocean and rival settlements, then expand territory, build an economy, research technologies, and raise an army. The rising water puts pressure on expansion and military preparation as players compete to survive and defeat opponents. Maps are generated procedurally with balancing intended to limit the effect of luck. Matches can be played offline against AI, online against up to 5 players, or online with AI and human players together. The AI is described as receiving no free units or resources and no additional vision. Economic and technology choices, enemy strategies, and map position shape each match.
How Waves of the Atlantide plays
- 01Shrinking Continent
- Rising water threatens the land, putting a time pressure on expansion and survival.
- 02Mixed Online Matches
- Online games can combine human opponents and AI, with up to 5 players in player-versus-player matches.
- 03Procedural Maps
- Generated maps are balanced, while the ocean and rival locations affect where players can settle.
- 04Offline AI Matches
- The computer opponents receive no extra units, resources, or vision.
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Waves of the Atlantide: platforms & release
Is Waves of the Atlantide worth it?
It is worth it if: 4X strategy fans who want matches shaped by a shrinking map. Skip it if: players seeking a relaxed pace may find the advancing ocean creates persistent pressure to expand and prepare forces.
Where can I download Waves of the Atlantide?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Waves of the Atlantide's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Waves of the Atlantide on?
Windows only.
