Atrio: The Dark Wild

Survival· Automation· Open World Survival Craft· Crafting

Released Jan 2023

Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.

79% positive · 602 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Atrio: The Dark Wild spent roughly a year and a half in Early Access before launching its full 1.0 release on January 10, 2023. That launch delivered the complete story mode, new gameplay systems, an ending cinematic, and all remaining stations. After launch, the developer shipped a series of improvement and quality-of-life patches through mid-2024. These addressed gameplay balance, added key rebinding and fast travel improvements (January–March 2023), completed a set of promised fixes in the "Speedrun Update" (May 2023), and added community-volunteered language localizations in November 2023 and again in August 2024. The August 6, 2024 post — which added Turkish, Russian, and French story translations, reworked the settings menu, and made combat balance tweaks — is the most recent developer communication on record. There are no unreleased DLC items on the store, no announced future content or roadmap, and no seasonal or live-service structure. The post-launch updates have been maintenance and quality-of-life in nature rather than new content expansions. The developer has not made any statement about future content additions. With the last communication on August 6, 2024 and no established cadence of major post-launch content releases (only feature patches and bug fixes after the 1.0 launch), the game reads as a complete, shipped product.

Evidence

Atrio Version 1.0 launched after ~18 months in Early Access, delivering the complete story mode, all remaining stations, new gameplay systems, and an ending cinematic.

news post · Jan 10, 2023 source content shipped

high

Feature patch adding Turkish, Russian, and French story translations, a reworked settings menu, and combat balance tweaks. Most recent developer communication on record.

news post · Aug 6, 2024 source development ongoing

medium

Media

Details

Developer

Isto Inc.

Publisher

Isto Inc.

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

full support

Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Survival Automation Open World Survival Craft Crafting 2D Open World Base Building Creature Collector Sandbox Story Rich Dark Strategy Resource Management Isometric Survival Horror

About this game

Atrio is a survival game set in a cyberpunk inspired post-apocalyptic world. Bend nature to your will by capturing and exploiting the creatures and environment to help you survive at all costs. The many threats and challenges you will face are too difficult to handle on your own, you must build, automate and optimize your systems to keep the world at bay to stay alive.

You are a nameless android tasked with restoring Station 3. Where are all the humans? What is your real purpose? What are these giant statues? The only way to know is to head into the dark wild.

Build huge, efficient automation systems to keep your base alive while you explore the world.

Hunt down and catch creatures in the wild.

Every captured creature has a unique role to play in your assembly line.

FEATURES

Hand Crafted Open World - Explore a beautiful and unique world, shaped by the contrast of sharp neon lights and darkness, while you fight to turn the lights back on.
Witty Story- Unravel the real reason that you’ve been sent to the surface in this witty narrative experience.
Sandbox Mode - Want to just relax? Sandbox mode lets you get creative in the safety of your own simulation.
Unique Creatures - A roster of unexpected, half robot, half organic creatures wait for you on the surface.
Pooping Deer? - That’s right! Something as unusual as deer poop may be the key to your survival.

ABOUT US

The makers of Disjoint! We’re a small, three-man team from Canada who love survival and automation games.
Stephen is a former Microsoft Program Manager turned game designer; Kyle is a former Aerials Olympic Athlete, and François currently has a beard that is 2ft ear to tip (only 15ft 6in to go until he breaks the world record)!

OPEN DEVELOPMENT

With monthly vlogs on YouTube, you will always know what’s happening with Atrio. See what the development team is working on and give feedback from inside the game.