Pirate Twist sets sail — OUT NOW in Early Access
The harbor chains drop today ⚓
Pirate Twist is out now in Early Access — with 15% off for the first 7 days. You are the captain — and the ship is yours to build. Lay out every cannon, hold, and hull plate yourself on the 5×8 module grid, then take your build to sea: branching encounter maps, broadsides traded hull to hull, and a dock at port to refit between seas. Every run is a gamble. Every sea ends with a named boss captain who wants your hull for a reef.
🏴☠️ In the build
- Five captain archetypes — two unlocked from the start, the rest earned by winning runs, each with distinct buffs and a signature crew
- 17 ship modules on a 5×8 grid — cannons and a mortar, hull platings, storage holds, repair stations, a crow's nest, plus rare ram prows and hull bracing earned from sieges and bosses
- Real-time broadside combat with directional component damage (hull, sails, crew, morale, fire), four ammo types, and stern-rake bonuses for the bold
- A three-sea campaign per run — branching maps of pirate fleets, mystery waters, elite duels, storms, and a five-wave Defend the Port siege
- A per-captain New Game+ ladder that ramps the threat after every win
- 35 achievements, a global leaderboard, lifetime stats, Steam Cloud — Windows + macOS (native on Intel and Apple Silicon)
🗺️ Where we're headed
Pick-your-crew loadouts, a multi-ship fleet, an endless ascension mode, more captains and modules, and verified Steam Deck support — rolled out across Early Access as community direction sharpens. Early Access buyers pay the lowest price the game will ever have, and every content update during EA is free.
🍻 Built with the crew
This is a solo-dev voyage, and the playtest crew already shaped this launch — patch notes name the reports that changed the game. Come claim a bunk in the Discord: dev posts, patch notes, and a bug-reports forum where the ship's ledger answers back.
⚓ Join the crew → discord.gg/piratetwistgame
Weigh anchor, captain. The first sea is waiting. Fair winds! ⚓