Top-down naval roguelite. Build a ship, lose a crew, survive the return.
The game
Pirate Twist puts you in command of a modular sailing ship on the wrong side of a hostile coastline. Every expedition is a one-way push into unfamiliar water — fight, forage, salvage, then survive the run back to port before the storm catches up.
Your ship is a grid. Each cell is a module — guns, sails, repair bays, cargo holds. Lose a slot to cannon fire and you lose the system that sat in it. What you bring back upgrades what goes out next. What you don't, doesn't.
Key features
- Modular ship building. Hand-placed slots. Real trade-offs. Every loadout reads differently in combat.
- Expedition-based runs. Push deep, decide when to turn back. Bring home enough to upgrade — or don't make it home.
- Tight top-down combat. Broadsides, ramming, pursuit, weather you have to read. Choose your shot, pick your moment.
- Directional damage. Rake a stern, tear a sail, break a crew's nerve. Where a shot lands decides what it takes.
- Persistent captains. Ships are rebuilt; captains endure. The skills and levels a captain earns carry from run to run — a lost expedition costs you the ship, never the captain's hard-won edge.
The voyage ahead
Early Access is a heading, not a finish line. Follow the monthly course from launch to the 1.0 horizon — and help steer it.