Ship Busters

Ship Busters is a ship combat game where you aim at individual parts of enemy vessels rather than attacking a single health bar. Hull, planks, masts, sails, guns and powder magazines can each be destroyed, so where a shot lands matters. You arc shots over the water and keep firing until the opposing ship can no longer fight.

Target ship systems

Your guns reload on separate timers. Fire each as it becomes ready to chip away at a target, or hold fire until the whole broadside is loaded and unleash a volley at once. Choosing when to fire and when to wait is central to combat.

Eight weapons and ammunition types let you attack ships in different ways:

• Round shot: deals direct damage through timber.
• Grape: spreads across a wide area and clears a deck.
• Chain: tears through canvas and can disable a ship by ripping its sails.
• Hotshot: lodges in the ship and starts fires that spread between sections.
• Mortar: arcs over the rail and breaks open the deck from above.
• Piercing shot: passes through the part it destroys and continues onward.
• Harpoons: latch on and tear away an entire section.
• Stuck bombs: cling to the hull as the ship sails, then detonate on their own timer.

Any of these can hit a powder magazine, causing fire to spread from cell to cell until the ship comes apart.

Build your ship

There are 12 sets, each with six pieces: cannon, hull, sail, mast, ram and keel. You can mix pieces to choose the stats you want or use a complete set for its bonus. Stats include speed, hull strength, damage, dodge and ambush damage, letting you build for holding range or closing in quickly to strike first.

Campaign and challenges

The campaign spans seven seas, each with its own waters, enemy classes and threats. Gauntlet sends waves of enemies against you until your ship is defeated. In the Daily Challenge, every captain faces the same fight on the same seed; only the player differs.