ShipShaper

ShipShaper is a ship-building game based on creativity and physics. You design a vessel, then launch it and see how its weight, sails, engines, wind and waves affect it. You can build ships from different eras, including triremes, galleons, pre-dreadnoughts, submarines and floating fortresses.

Shape your ship

Draw a hull using curves: adjust the keel line, beam and bow, while decks and planking rebuild around your changes. Add parts by hovering over a spot on the ship and choosing from the options that fit, or select them from the Library. Hundreds of parts can be scaled or stretched; for example, stretching a gun barrel increases its power or range. Colour themes let you repaint an entire ship at once. The game focuses on steam and sail, with a pre-World War II emphasis, but you can build beyond those eras.

Sail and fight

Every item has weight, and the hull displaces water to carry it. Heavy guns and ammunition placed high can make a ship top-heavy and cause it to keel over; keels and wider hulls can help counter this. Sails need the right wind, engines need boilers and funnels, and a long, slim hull is faster than a fat one regardless of how many engine boosters it carries. Add diving rudders to make a submarine, but torpedoes, mines and depth charges can threaten their users as well as other ships.

Wakes, spray, surf against rocks and incoming storms feature in the sailing. You can use easy physics to defy gravity and buoyancy, or switch to realistic physics. There is no campaign, missions or progression: you build and sail, and can also fight other players in the arenas.

PvP arenas

The live PvP arenas are open without lobbies, clans or grinding. They offer four modes:

• No quarter: anything goes.
• Bloody sails: sail-powered ships only.
• Even keel: easy physics, with any kind of build allowed.
• Racing: no weapons; compete using speed and the weather.

Combat includes turrets, broadsides, torpedoes, mines, depth charges and ramming. Damage is visible: shells leave holes, fires spread and water enters below the waterline. Sunk ships remain as wrecks, which players with a crane can haul up for crates and healing. Private sessions let you set your own rules with friends, show off ships, duel or sail around a scenic open world.

Save and share builds

Steam Workshop supports weekly build themes and rankings. You can export ships as FBX, STL or 3MF files for 3D printing or use in your own game, with a free commercial license, or send them straight into Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles.