Cursed Crew

Cursed Crew is a crew-management roguelite about captaining a ship across untamed seas. You give orders, manage supplies, keep the crew happy, fight pirates and beasts, and respond to emergencies. You and your crew are cursed to sail endlessly unless you can find a way to break free.

Lead the crew

You stock the ship with supplies and food, plunder and spend treasure, plot a course across the world map, and choose story events that can lead to battles, treasure or secrets. You also manage the crew’s needs for food, sleep and morale, and can craft and cook. Crew members steer, build, repair, fish and prepare meals with or without orders. During battles, they put out fires, haul supplies, load and man cannons, and defend the ship from beasts and enemy sailors.

Victories, a good night’s rest, and delicious food and grog can raise morale. Lost battles, the death of a crewmate, sleep deprivation and starvation can lower it. Resentful crew members may ignore orders, throw destructive tantrums, lose motivation to work or start a mutiny.

Fight at sea

You can order the crew to build and man cannons, then attack with grapeshot and hull-breaching artillery. Harpoon guns can pull enemy vessels close for boarding and close combat. Arm your crew with daggers, cutlasses, flintlock pistols, muskets and bombs for fights against enemy sailors.

The dangers include murderous pirates, skeleton crews, ghosts, rat men, packs of killer sharks, violent winds and storms, ravenous megalodons and other creatures. The game also features ship-to-ship combat, dynamic weather, random events, various creatures and bosses, and recruitable humanoid races.

Choose and outfit a ship

Each ship type has variants with its own starter loadout:

• Caravels: Swift, well-balanced ships suited to catching and boarding weaker vessels.
• Carracks: Large warships that are slower than most ships and often carry more cannons than crew.
• Cogs: Sturdy ships with a fortified castle, built to take hits and return fire with devastating mortars.
• Raiders: Medium-sized ships originally built for trade, designed for speed and maneuverability.

You arrange and decorate the ship’s deck and floors. A well-designed vessel has strategically placed cannons, protected hammocks and stores for food and goods. You can also build crafting structures, including a woodworking bench, tailoring bench, smithy, cartography table and kitchen.

Customize your crew

You can customize your captain and crew with hairstyles, mustaches, expressions, tattoos, hats and attire, among other options. You can also create a flag for your crew.