Planned Release Date: Nov 10, 2026

About This Game

Scramshaw puts you in the Travelling Shoes of a treasure hunter. Armed with a pile of dubious maps and a 6 x 6 grid of letters, find words to travel along the path and dig up that loot.

With a massive pool of pirates, charms, boons, and tools to discover, no two expeditions are the same. Each pirate you encounter brings new challenge and new opportunities. Can you adapt on the fly to keep the run going? Can you keep it going upside down?

The maps keep getting longer and the Perils keep piling up, but why risk certain doom when you can park yourself on a nice Picnic Spot instead? Add a range of bonuses to your path to make navigating it a little bit easier and a lot more profitable.

Turn your dubious treasures into tangible boosts. Each map you complete unlocks tools based on the score earned. When life gives you a Crate of Lemons, make a Spyglass somehow.

Find 13 treasures in a Destination to Loot it and unlock its Boon, which gives a permanent boost to all expeditions. Crank up that confetti slider and make your way through all 10 Destinations, each with unique modifiers to challenge you.

Find Mythic tools and pirates to unlock unique challenges and even more powerful effects to aid you on your expedition. Found a Mythic treasure? Well now you've unlocked powerful curses with entirely new mechanics to use on future expeditions. Spooky!

Push further, squeeze every last doubloon out of that Naive Investor, and prove to your friends once and for all you are truly the best at clicking on letters to make words.

Every map you complete is an achievement, of course, but there is something to be said for finally nailing that Pirate King run. With an achievement for every letter of the alphabet, there is no end to the ways to challenge yourself.*

*The end to no end is 26.

Sometimes there's a coconut.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The player can freely use crude language if they so wish.

There is an unlockable toggle for replacing some names with puerile variants.

There are depictions of bribery with positive gameplay effects.