A single-player pirate RPG. Now in development.
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Story
The year is 1729. You are Ada Bonnet, born a pirate, now shipwrecked on a drowsy island colony. This could be the start of an honest life, but it’s hard to stay out of trouble when adventure and unclaimed riches beckon from beyond the horizon. It’s even harder when there’s a bounty on your head. Then again, what pirate doesn’t enjoy a little infamy? Just remember that some debts are not paid in money.
World
Explore a lived-in open world – by ship, on foot or swinging from your grappling hook. Scattered across miles of open ocean lie dozens of hand-crafted islands just waiting to be discovered. From colonial ports to rogue pirate colonies, lush jungles to (mostly) impenetrable forts, this archipelago is filled with things to do and people to meet. Some of them are even friendly.
Gameplay
Outsail your enemies, or roll out the guns and exchange broadsides. Board their ship and take what’s worth taking or send them to the bottom of the sea. Use your wits or your blade, sneak past your enemies or introduce them to your flintlock. The choice is yours, provided you can stomach the consequences.
Grow more dangerous as you go: level up to unlock new skills or put down the money and upgrade your weapons or your ship. Few things in this world come free, but there are plenty of ways to earn a few coins. And if all else fails: there’s always plundering.
Features
Troubled Seas is in active development. The following list of features is preliminary and subject to change.
- Warm, character-driven story set in an unkind world where laughter and heartbreak often share the same breath.
- Lived-in open world with dozens of hand-crafted islands, ready to be explored without loading screens.
- More than 20 side quests, each with its own characters and story, and some with consequences that ripple into the main quest.
- Fully voiced characters, motion-captured performances and expressive facial animations throughout.
- Naval combat won by skill as much as firepower, where a well-aimed chain shot can bring even the most fearsome enemies to their knees.
- Boarding that begins with a well-placed grappling hook and ends at the tip of a blade.
- Stealth where a thunderstorm will mask your steps, but a flash of lightning can give away your position.
- Ship customization with new guns, sails and paint, and a name worthy of your reputation.
- Side activities like potion making, cartography, lockpicking, fire making, fishing and ferrying, or win some spending money by challenging the locals to a game of mancala.
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Troubled Seas is a single-player, third-person, narrative open-world RPG set in the Caribbean towards the end of the Golden Age of Piracy.
Troubled Seas is developed by Mixed Signals Games, the studio name of German solo developer Kai Jäger. Kai has been making games since 1995 and has spent the last four years building Troubled Seas alone, handling art, writing, programming and sound design. All of the game’s art is modeled and painted by hand, without the use of generative AI.
The game is currently being developed for PC/Steam. Steam Deck support is a goal for release. Console releases may be considered at a later time.
The game is in active development and it’s unfortunately too early to commit to a release window. If you don’t want to miss any future announcements, please wishlist the game on Steam.
It’s unfortunately too early to say. If you would like to be notified if it does, please wishlist the game on Steam.
Troubled Seas is exclusively a single-player game.
No.
No.
Yes, absolutely.
As many as possible, but the exact set has not yet been confirmed. Localization will cover subtitles and user interface but not spoken dialogue, which will be available exclusively in its original language (English).
The game will have a variety of quality settings in order to allow it to run smoothly on most PCs. For the highest quality settings, an upper mid-range PC will likely be required.
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