Buccaneer: Pirate Ship Battle

Buccaneer is a pirate ship battle game set on the Spanish Main in 1650. Fit out your ship, sign on a crew of cutthroats and fire full broadsides at Spanish galleons, then board the prize and take her gold.

Every pirate ship battle runs on real 2D physics. You captain the flagship: you set her sails and lay her guns. Your pirates do the rest. They serve the cannons, fire their muskets, swing across on ropes and fight on the enemy's deck.

FIGHT AT SEA
• Drag back and let go to fire every loaded cannon at once. Each shot flies on a real arc and can skip off the waves.
• Ships are built plank by plank. Round shot smashes holes, holes below the waterline flood, masts come down, and a ship shot to pieces breaks apart and sinks.
• Four kinds of shot: round to hole the hull, chain to tear sails and snap masts, grape to clear the deck, and heated shot to set ships and towns ablaze. Fire near the powder room can blow a ship sky high.

TAKE, SINK, SACK OR RAZE
• Four kinds of quest on the notice board in Tortuga: take a merchantman, sink a warship, sack a town or burn it to the ground.
• Take a prize intact: cripple her rigging, clear her deck, then board. Every hole below her waterline spoils the cargo.
• Silence the fort guns, send your longboats ashore and loot the warehouses, the church and the Governor's House.
• Five legendary raids, from the Silver Pinnace to the Plate Fleet and the treasure of Portobelo.

BOARD THE PRIZE
• Close the range in the middle of a sea battle, lay alongside and press Board. Your men swing across on ropes or charge over the plank.
• Beaten crews strike their colors, and some of the prisoners sign on with you.
• Men overboard swim for a friendly hull, and the sharks come for the rest.

BUILD YOUR SHIP AND FLEET
• Grow from a sloop to a brigantine, a frigate and a towering 26-gun galleon.
• Recast your guns from 4-pounders up to 24-pounders, and refit with better canvas, oak planking, chain pumps and boarding nets.
• Keep captured ships as consorts. Up to 3 of them sail beside you and join every naval battle.

SIGN ON A CREW
• Seven kinds of men in the tavern: landlubbers, able seamen, boucaniers with long muskets, master gunners, cutthroats, grenadiers and old corsairs.
• Rise through six ranks, from Nobody to Pirate Lord, as your infamy grows.
• Men who die stay dead, so choose your fights.

PLAY YOUR WAY
• A single-player offline pirate game: no internet connection is needed to play. No account either, and your progress is saved on your device.
• No in-app purchases. Ads are optional rewarded videos: watch one only if you want double plunder after a win, or a refit on the house after losing your ship.

MATURE CONTENT
Buccaneer is for players 18 and over. Men are killed by cannon fire, muskets, cutlasses and explosions, with blood on the decks and in the water. Blood is on by default and can be switched off on the title screen.

If you are looking for pirate games where every cannon ball counts, run up the black flag and start your first pirate ship battle. The Spanish Main is waiting.

Recent changes:
New sound effects, bug fixes and improvements.