Atlantica Online is set in an alternate history Earth, with the game map consisting of large parts of the northern hemisphere. The setting is fantasy-themed with elements of steampunk.
Atlantica Online features a persistent world populated by player-generated characters and NPCs. At character creation, a player selects one of seven basic classes and can then customize the character's appearance. Humans are the onnly playable race in Atlantica Online. The character's class decides what armor that character can wear and what weapons and skills that character can use in battle.
Atlantica Online players do not fight with the starting character alone. As the character levels up, they can acquire player-controlled mercenaries. During the mandatory tutorial section at the beginning of the game, a player chooses his/her first two mercenaries. As the character gains levels, they can control more mercenaries, up to the maximum of eight, which makes for a party of maximum size nine.
Atlantica Online characters can, in addition to their battle skills, pursue a number of different crafting abilities.
The Atlantica Online game design puts strong emphasis on the concept of guilds. Guilds can control the various towns on the game map. Strong guilds can found nations and wage war on another.
Battle in Atlantica Online is rather unusual for the genre as it turn-based. Representations of hostile parties wander around the landscape, if a player touches such a representation, his/her party and the enemy party are transferred to a separate battlefield and remain there until the battle is resolved.
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