Pirates! Showdown: Enhanced Edition

Pirates! Showdown: Enhanced Edition combines real-time strategy with defense tactics in head-to-head pirate battles. You launch ships from your base, capture towns and other structures to strengthen your defenses and earn gold, and try to capture the enemy base while defending your own. The game avoids heavy resource management and unit micromanagement.

Command your fleet

Send pirate ships to intercept the enemy or lay siege to land targets. You can launch an armada of Brigantines or save your gold for a Ship of the Line. Towns, guard towers, shipyards, lighthouses, mystical obelisks and other structures can be captured. Each has a distinct purpose: structures can provide gold, attack enemies, strengthen ships or let you launch more ships.

You can upgrade towns to increase gold production and guard towers to improve their firepower and reinforce your defenses. Your approach can focus on capturing towns for their gold or investing in the towns you already hold; you can also choose between ship battles and building up your defenses with upgraded towers.

Campaign worlds

The campaign has 75 levels across four worlds. Fight in the tropical Caribbean, pursue your enemies into the River Styx world of Hades, and battle across the large levels of the Open Sea and Chaos Ocean worlds.

Skirmish matches

Two skirmish modes generate randomly created maps, providing an effectively unlimited range of battlefields. You can set the AI to adapt to your skill or to play an even match, and adjust its difficulty to make the game easier or harder. Time can be sped up or slowed down at any point, giving you more time to prepare or letting battles move faster.