Pixel Piracy

You take the role of a pirate captain sailing between locations in a side-scrolling world. Voyages lead to encounters with rival crews, visits to islands and towns, and opportunities to search for treasure.

Recruit sailors, equip them, and develop their abilities as you build a crew for exploration and combat. At ports, you can recruit more crew and trade for gear; encounters can also offer dialogue choices with outcomes that vary by situation.

Customize your ship’s layout and weaponry, manage supplies, and gather loot to improve your crew and vessel. The world and its events have randomized elements, so routes and encounters can differ between playthroughs.

Players who enjoy Pixel Piracy often point to the loop of building a ship, recruiting and developing a crew, and sailing into unpredictable encounters. They also praise the pixel-art style and the freedom to shape a ship and crew. Other reviewers find the play repetitive or clunky, and many raise concerns about bugs, performance, and the game’s unfinished or abandoned state.