Windward Isles

Trade, fight, and sail beyond the chartWindward Isles is a sun-drenched age-of-sail sandbox. Take the wheel of your own ship, run cargo between ten living harbours, fight off corsairs with thundering broadsides, and climb from a lowly deckhand to the sea's highest honour — the Windward Sovereign. No timers, no fail states rushing you along. Chart your own course across a crystal-clear ocean and make your fortune however you please.A living sea to tradeEighteen goods across ten harbours — buy low where they're made, sell dear where they're craved.

Prices drift day to day, shortages spike, festivals lift a whole port. The market lives and breathes — no harbour deals in everything, and as the isles prosper the docks carry ever more variety. Rare luxuries like amber, ivory and ambergris only surface as your voyage matures. Read the trade winds — hover any good for a trade card telling you where it sells highest and what the run is worth. Warehouses, harbour investments, moneylenders and insurance all deepen the game.

Eight ships, thundering broadsidesSail your way up the fleet — from a nimble Cutter to a mighty Man-o'-War. Every hull on the market is a little different; the grandest ships-of-the-line are laid down only at the great fortress capitals. Broadside combat — fire port and starboard, cycle round, chain and grape shot, and unleash combat skills: a bursting mortar, a double broadside, a rigging-shredding chain volley, or brace and mend.…