Captain Contraband

Trade, smuggle or plunder. The dead are coming either way. Captain Contraband is a real-time pirate roguelike played on a hand-inked 1600s sea chart. In 40-minute voyages you sail a sea that's different every time, fight with cannons in real time, and collect cursed Sacraments that make you stronger at a price. Then the year runs out, and a ghost tide comes for the map. Choose your captainFeng and The Mingqin. A pirate who inherited her ship as a teenager.

She sets the sea ablaze with a flaming broadside, and seals her ship in a phoenix egg to be reborn from the brink. Tako and The Little Kraken. A smuggler (probably not just two octopuses in a trenchcoat). Sprays ink to blind pursuers, chokes ships with tentacles, and slips past customs overland. Zhivko Yakov and The Hive. A wise old Bulgarian beekeeper who took to the sea so his bees could taste every flower in the world. A trader who fights with honey and bees, and whose ship makes honey as it sails.

Make your fortune your wayTrade 32 goods: buy where they're made, sell where they're rare. Take contracts for deliveries and bounties from the notice board. Smuggle past customs, intimidate the officers, or slip ashore with a Smuggler in your crew. Plunder merchant ships and loot wrecks. Hire a crew of Bruisers, Cannoneers, Divers, Navigators, Smugglers and Traders. Upgrade your ship with 42 shipyard upgrades.…