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About This Game

A pirate game where the crew is the real ship

The Caribbean, 1692. An old captain is dead, and his will leaves you a worn ship, a handful of hands who stayed on, and thirty pieces of gold.

Every port offers honest work: haul sugar, carry a passenger, land a cargo on time. Every horizon offers the other thing: a fat merchantman, low in the water, alone. Pirate Privateer never tells you which to take. It only makes both cost something.

And below decks, the crew are watching what kind of captain you turn out to be. They have names, trades, moods and opinions. They put their marks to your Articles, and they draw a share of everything you bring aboard.

Run the ship

• A crew of individuals. Every hand has a name, a byname, skills, traits and a thought in their own words. Watch them work their stations, eat, sleep and grumble across the day and night watches.

• Fit her out your way. Buy fittings at the shipyard and place them on her decks yourself: a kitchen, a carpenter's bench, a sick bay, a lookout post, hammocks. Nothing is impossible without one, only harder.

• Give the orders. Set job priorities, call all hands to the pumps, drill the guns or clear for action.

• Make her yours. Paint her hull, lay her decks in eight woods, sew your own flag, furnish her with decor from English, Spanish, Dutch and pirate ports, and take ship's animals aboard.

• Life aboard. Fish off the side, go over it to scrape the barnacles from her bottom, and shoot bottles off a plank ashore for coin.

Sail the Caribbean

• A chart that grows. Start out knowing only the great ports. Clear the fog with your own wake, with tavern gossip, and with jobs that lead somewhere new.

• Living job boards. Deliveries, passages, smuggling runs and rescues, from easy to hard, pinned for a week or two and taken by other ships if you wait.

• Ports worth walking. Market, tavern, shipyard, animal shop and, some weeks, a fortune teller's tent with a 22-card tarot to collect.

• Weather you can see. Rain, fog, storms and flat calms change through the day and the season, and leave their mark on deck.

• Ships at sea. Sail ho! Choose your colours, close with her, then let her pass, run, or fight with broadsides, chain shot, grenadoes and fire barrels.

• Boarding. Grapple her and send your crew across. Cutlasses, axes, pikes and blunderbusses, men leaping the rail, and the wounded carried below to be tended.

Privateer or Pirate

Fame and infamy are two roads across the same sea. Follow Captain Hale's legacy through seven chapters, each offering honest quests and pirate ones, told in branching conversations, with an ending that depends on the road you finish on.

Or sail your own career

Roll your own captain instead and the account never closes. When a captain dies, retires, hangs or is voted out by the crew, the account passes to the next, and every captain brings a gift of their own to the ship.

At home on a PC

Play with mouse, keyboard or controller, full screen or in a window, with keys you can change and an interface laid out for a wide screen.

Coming to Early Access in March 2027

Try the free demo in Steam Next Fest this February, and join us on Discord. Wishlist now to hear the moment she sails.