A Pirate Quartermaster

A Pirate Quartermaster is about life aboard a pirate ship, where you serve as quartermaster and first mate. You manage the crew and the ship, balancing your captain’s ambitions against the sailors’ rights—or choosing to support the captain instead. Enforcing the law and preventing injustice are part of your role aboard a ship with few hierarchies.

Life aboard ship

Manage a sailboat or a steamship by steering, rigging, heating, fishing, cleaning, maintaining the vessel and treating the sick. Ship management unfolds in turns marked by the watch bell. Time is measured in watches rather than days, and leaving a ship unattended can send it to the ocean floor, where it becomes shelter for sharks and octopuses.

Hunger and thirst are everyday threats, while disease is a sailor’s worst enemy. Tools help you manage the ship’s conduct, and you can modify its compartments as you wish.

Orders and combat

During gunnery phases, you transmit the captain’s orders by typing them on the keyboard; you can also click with the mouse if you have a hook instead of fingers. Boarding leads to fierce hand-to-hand combat. Long stretches of travel give way to a faster pace during battles.

The crew and the ocean

Women may be part of the crew, and you may play as one. Women are not accepted aboard ships and are considered bad luck, so a woman on board must operate in the shadows. A pirate ship is a place where she can eventually be accepted and establish herself.

Each new game generates its map procedurally, and the wealth and characteristics of its peoples are redistributed at random. Treasure maps, artifacts, monkey business and discoveries add to daily life at sea.