Ahoy, ye scurvy future legend!
You start with a dinghy, two cannons and one sailor who is already asking about payday. Somewhere out there are fat merchant ships, rich ports, angry navies and things with too many teeth. What happens next is up to you.
No Good Pirates is a sandbox about sailing, trading and naval combat in a world that does not wait for you. Factions fight over islands, merchants haul real cargo between ports, pirates raid whoever looks weak, and prices rise and fall with what actually happens at sea. You are just one more captain in it. For now.
From rowboat to "oh no, it's HIM"
Buy low, sell high, and learn which port is starving for grain and which one is drowning in it.
Bolt on more cannons, more sails, harpoons, engines and other fittings. Then buy a bigger hull and do it all again.
Hire a crew with names, skills, wages and opinions. Keep them fed and paid, or find out how mutiny-adjacent they can get.
Naval combat with actual physics
Every cannonball flies for real. Every hit punches a real hole. Holes below the waterline let the sea in, and your crew runs to plug them and pump while you line up the next broadside.
Turn your side to the enemy, fire a broadside, and brace before theirs lands.
Lash alongside and board her. Win the fight on deck, then tow your prize home or scuttle it.
Chase guns, powder kegs, harpoons, shields and engines for when "fair fight" is not on the menu.
A world that keeps sailing without you
A new procedural archipelago every game, from volcanoes and deserts to snowy peaks, swamps, atolls and caves you can sail right through. Nine unique factions fight over it - kingdoms, island nations, pirates, smugglers and things that should have stayed drowned - and almost none of them like each other.
Every faction needs goods from someone else, so they trade, form coalitions, declare wars and besiege each other's islands, with or without you. Leaders give orders, ports grow and shrink, and quests come from what islands actually need. Add day and night, rain, fog and storms, and the sea never plays the same way twice.
Beyond the map: the Frontier
Past the settled seas lie uncharted wild islands with rare resources and nobody's flag. Chart them, claim them, and found your own colonies. Just watch out for the Drowned - pale crews with green lanterns and torn sails, who haunt the Frontier from their sunken bases and come raiding at night. Take their haunts, or sail fast.
Here be monsters
The deep sea is home to giant worms, crabs and worse. They are big, they are hungry, and they think your ship looks like a snack. Bring cannons. Bring more cannons.
Raise your own flag
Once you have the gold and the guns, stop working for others. Take a fleet, chart wild islands, found colonies and rule them as your own House. Set taxes, build defences, make allies, declare wars, or swear service to a greater lord and wait for your moment.
Bring your crew (the human kind)
Play solo or host online co-op for up to 8 players through Steam. Every friend is a full captain with their own ship, crew, gold and House. Sail together, trade together, or settle that "who sank whose cargo" argument with a broadside.
Early Access
No Good Pirates is in Early Access and is being built by a solo developer. More ships, islands, monsters and features are on the way, and player feedback decides what comes first. Hop in, set sail, and tell us what to build next. Arrr.