Co-op pirate action-adventure

Fortune's Wake

Captain a pirate ship you can walk from bow to stern, then storm islands held by the dead, alone or with a crew of friends.

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A two-masted schooner under black sails, a skull and crossbones on her mainsail, on a calm sea at golden hour.

Raise the sails. Run out the guns. Go ashore with a saber in your hand and take the gold the dead won’t give up.

Fortune’s Wake is a first-person pirate adventure where your ship is yours down to the last plank. Captain her alone or fill her decks with friends, and set a course for islands where something is waiting in the sand.

Your ship, every inch of her

There’s no menu between you and the sea. You take the helm. You set the sails. You run to the guns when an enemy closes in. And when a ball smashes through the hull, you’re the one below decks with a plank, racing the water.

Start in a quick little pinnace and work your way up to the gun decks of a 48-gun frigate. Lose her, and the voyage isn’t over: pay the shipwright, relaunch her and get back out there.

Fire as she bears

Line up the broadside and let it fly. Round shot to break her hull, grape to clear her deck, fireballs to set her burning while her crew fights the flames. Send her to the bottom, and her treasure might come bobbing back up for the taking.

Then take the fight ashore

Drop anchor and the battle comes to you. Cross blades with the dead on the beach, blast them apart with pistol and blunderbuss, or call down lightning from a staff. They come in hordes, and at the top of the mountain the Stone King is waiting.

Every fight sharpens the skills you use and unlocks new moves. Play together, and everyone gets their own loot.

A sea worth getting lost in

Every new voyage brings new drift isles over the horizon, each with fresh treasure and fresh guards. Push out from the Home Waters into the jungles of the Green Isles and the volcanic Burning Belt. Brave the storm or run from it. Douse the lanterns at night and slip through the dark. Then sail home to port, spend your plunder and go again.

The Stone King’s Hoard

The island demo is a complete chapter, from sea to summit and back. Silence Thunderfall’s sea batteries, drop anchor in the bay and wade ashore as a drowned crew claws its way out of the sand. Fight up the Great Stair, break the Stone King and crack open his vault.

Then comes the hard part: getting the gold home, with the dead awake behind you and a rival brig coming for your hoard.

Fortune's Wake
Thunderfall seen from the air at sunset, a green island of jagged peaks ringed by white surf and pale beaches, with a black-sailed ship at anchor in its bay.
Thunderfall, seat of the Stone King.
A black-sailed schooner at anchor in a calm bay below Thunderfall's peaks, palms along the shore.
Drop anchor. Something is waiting on the beach.
A ship's dark hull at left as a line of fiery bursts traces a fireball round's flight across calm water at sunset, a small castle-topped island on the horizon.
Load the fireballs and set her ablaze.
Flames and black smoke rise from a ship's deck beneath her rigging at sunset.
Fire spreads fast below the rigging.
A first-person view of a saber raised toward four skeletons advancing across a sandy beach, surf behind them.
The dead don't stay buried.
A pirate with a saber faces a line of skeletons on a beach as one of them bursts apart into bones.
They come in hordes. They break under the blade.
A pirate in a long coat holds up a staff on a beach as a bolt of lightning streaks down from the sky.
Call down the lightning.
A torch-lit stone vault with an ornate chest at its center, more chests behind it and heaps of gold coins spilled across the floor.
The Stone King's vault opens only when he falls.
The view from a ship's deck past the shrouds toward a towering storm cloud, rain falling beneath it and lightning striking the sea.
Outrun the storm, or sail straight into it.
A ship's deck at night, lanterns lit on the mainmast, crew at their stations and lights on the dark horizon.
The night watch. Douse the lanterns and run dark.
A three-masted frigate under full sail at golden hour, seen from low on the water off her bow.
Work your way up to a 48-gun frigate.
An old sea chart titled The Known Waters, washed in four regional colors, with islands inked by name and a compass rose.
The Known Waters, where new isles drift in with every voyage.
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