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Ylands
Adventure awaits you and your friends in the world of Ylands! Gather resources, craft tools, construct anything and everything, and explore the lands! Build a ship and set sail, encountering mythical animals, a wide variety of sea-life, enemies of all kinds and much more!
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Exploration, building, creative freedom” (21 of 85 reviews) and “Playing adventures with friends” (6); the most common complaint is “Dated, altered, grind-heavy gameplay” (10). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
21 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“the survival building and exploration is well done and vary enjoyable”
6 of the 85 reviews raise this.
6 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“I don't understand why people are not playing in 2026. This game is so awesome! It has got so much content, especially if you play casually and enjoy collections and achievement hunting. Really cozy. Give it chance!”
“Ylands is honestly a really fun and creative game. It offers a unique mix of exploration, crafting, and adventure, and you can tell a lot of effort has gone into the design. The visuals are colorful, the world feels…”
“amazing open world game worth playing for hours gives that good chill to combaty vibe no other game can compete with”
4 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“Ylands is honestly a really fun and creative game. It offers a unique mix of exploration, crafting, and adventure, and you can tell a lot of effort has gone into the design. The visuals are colorful, the world feels…”
“Fabulous game, awesome graphics. Massive things to do fighting, crafting, building.”
4 of the 85 reviews raise this.
“Great free game also quite small Love it!!!”
10 of the 85 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“It's fun for the first 3 hours then it gets really boring. I don't think we will play it again because 4 hours is enough for me. This game's core gameplay loop is too damn drawn out and on top of that you will always be…”
“The game has potential, however, Valheim perfected the ship survival formula and this game got buried.”
8 of the 85 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“April, 2026. I am playing this game and it is everything I wanted Atlas to be! I have always wanted a game like this I love it so much! It needs some love and I would like it to get mods some day even like how wildcard…”
“abandonware”
6 of the 85 reviews raise this.
5 of the 85 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is really fun very well made and optimized . Remids me of booga booga on roblox but sadly after you get ur second ship you realize you need to pay to have it so it killed all my fun . never playing again”
5 of the 85 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Ylands is honestly a really fun and creative game. It offers a unique mix of exploration, crafting, and adventure, and you can tell a lot of effort has gone into the design. The visuals are colorful, the world feels…”
Counted across 85 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 63.7% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“love this game, a peaceful and relaxing game to play with your friends or on your own. theres alot of content in the game so you have alot to do. progression might be hard to understand at first but youll get the hang of it later on”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“its a good game but it doesnt tell you that you have to pay for adventure mode”
— a player, Steam review · 571 hrs played“Game has a ton of potential to be something truly cool, but terrible decisions by the company who runs it caused the playerbase to abandon it. Very cool crafting and ocean gameplay and survival, interesting world, addicting, but zero online players, and awkward invisible walls…”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-21.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 2.4.2
Critical Fixes:\ Fixed: game getting stuck during loading on mobile if your last visited yland was a sharegame on PC\ Fixed: loot container sometimes being inaccessible after the ship it was on sunk\
2.4.1 Patch Changelog
Highlights NPC conversation bubbles - You can now read all text in conversations much more slowly and still get the main point. Claiming more vehicles bug - You can now claim all the vehicles for whic
Update 2.4 - FLEET FRIENDS
Ahoy Ylanders! Are you ready for the latest update? We are, and we hope you'll find it enticing since this update is bringing something MORE to the game! More vehicles! One ship simply doesn't cut it.
2.4 Fleet Friends - Changelog
⭐Highlights⭐ Claiming more boats and vehicles You said you wanted to flex with your stylish ship or car and we heard you. Now you can claim more than one and switch among them as you see fit! You can
EXPERIMENTAL Build - Update 2.4
Ahoy Ylanders, We've been hard at work on the upcoming update, which we titled Fleet Friends. And before we release it, we bring you the experimental build! Available only to Steam users, the Experime
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Free To Play |
| Player tags | Adventure · Multiplayer · Free to Play · Open World Survival Craft · Exploration · Crafting · Base-Building · Sailing · Resource Management · Action-Adventure · First-Person · Third Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Full controller support · In-App Purchases |
| Languages | English * , Spanish - Spain, Czech, French, Italian, German, Russian * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 56 |
| Official site | https://ylands.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit Operating System Required) Processor: Intel Core i3-4160 @ 3.60GHz Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 520 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 2 GB available space