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Captain a customizable fleet across a colorful ocean, chart islands, battle pirates, and investigate a mystery beneath the waves.
Released 21 Dec 2022
Build a Sailing Fleet
Capture Pirate Ships
Photograph Sea Life
Sail a fleet of customizable ships across an ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. Befriend fishfolk to expand your boat crews, take up arms against petulant pirates, and chart a course across an expansive watery world. Will you answer the call of High Adventure?
Developed by Festive Vector · Published by The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
You captain a sailing ship across a broad ocean dotted with islands, inhabitants, wildlife, and hostile vessels. As you explore and follow quests, you work with the ocean’s people to uncover a mystery hidden in the depths.
Sail by adjusting to the wind as you travel between regions, discover locations, and gather supplies from shipwrecks and other finds. Along the way, you can take on side activities such as fishing and photographing wildlife, and chart more of the world as you go.
Build a fleet by acquiring ships and recruiting crew, then customize vessels with different weapons and upgrades. Fight pirates and other ships, capture vessels, and manage your fleet as you progress through the adventure.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy the sailing and exploration, describing the experience as relaxing while still offering pirate battles and a sense of adventure. Colorful visuals, humorous characters, and the ability to customize ships and grow a fleet also recur as appealing features. Some reviewers, however, find sailing slow or frustrating, and opinions differ on combat balance and how much variety the world offers.
• Put the wind to your back and cast out into High Adventure over a vast ocean spanning dozens of eccentric regions.
• Discover countless isles bursting with their own flora, fauna, friendly folk, and fearsome foes.
• Playfully pursue a pod of curious dolphins, admire the beauty of the sun sinking into an icy horizon, or run down a clutch of cowardly criminals only to accept their apologies to the tune of wild cannonry.
• Build and manage a custom cadre of specialized vessels to match any personality and play style.
• Buy, equip, upgrade, and modify your ships’ armaments to face off against the toughest privateers this side of the Eclipside.
• Crack open giant clams and loot lonely shipwrecks to fill your fleet’s treasure hoard and keep your crew in shipshape.
• Join forces with the myriad inhabitants of this watery world to uncover a terrible secret buried in the depths of the Deepblue.
• Reel in a big one with the salty Anglerwranglers, learn the secret spyspeak of the Croaker Command Corps, save the sea life of the Moontiders, capture picturesque memories with a mysterious “camera” device, and much more.
• Inspire the finefolk from all over to work as one world-spanning crew to save the seas and the planet.
• Tack and jibe and heave and cut with a sail and wind system designed with enough attention to realistic sailing physics to excite naval enthusiasts while also remaining deeply accessible to anyone and everyone.
• Sail through stormy swells and serene sunsets in a dynamic and breathtaking day-night weather system.
• Bask in the beauty of the benevolent ocean waters in Free Sail mode where the only goal is the ever-moving horizon.
The Deepblue calls with the bellow of High Adventure! Sail Forth!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 47 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
