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Steer in wide circular loops to handle momentum, and reserve your dash charges to escape dense swarms or grappling hooks.

Select from three random upgrades on level-up to align elemental abilities across void, fire, lightning, wind, or shadow.

Collect floating wood and stone without losing progress when forced away, or visit altars for temporary boosts and hull repairs.

Active abilities scale up to Level 10 during an expedition, while passive skills reach a maximum rank of Level 5.

Your active and passive skill capacity is strictly determined by the hull version of your selected ship.

Socket collectible marks into weapon slots to add secondary status effects like poison trails, burning ignite, or curses.

Commands fire and tar mechanics to ignite surface blazes and restore ship hull health using the Grog Pool passive.

Utilizes poison damage over time, shadow boomerangs, and spectral summons to decay and stun approaching enemy fleets.

Spreads abyssal curses, summons thrashing tentacle strikes, and unleashes piranha swarms against clustered targets.

Unlocks after defeating the Kraken and removes standard auto-targeting in exchange for manual crosshair aiming.

Equipped with automatic rear cannons to blast pursuers while you manually aim primary shots forward.

A playable hull variant that greatly increases the total projectile count generated by active abilities.

Guards the Sea of Time region with heavy galleon broadsides, summoning an aggressive ghost horde upon defeat.

Emerges from open waters to unleash projectile salvos and drops the legendary Cannon of the Deep weapon.

An endgame ocular boss in chapter waters accompanied by tentacle-draped warships and exploding broodlings.

Treasure maps allow captains to add or remove structural terrain elements to alter naval combat routes.

Captains can interact with and harvest rocks and wood debris directly from the water to clear paths.

Voyages span five consecutive maritime maps featuring dynamic weather, reefs, whirlpools, and ship graveyards.

Retails at a fixed base price of $9.99 USD on PC across Steam and DRM-free storefronts like GOG.

Debuted in Steam Early Access on April 23, 2026, before launching its full 1.0 version on September 7, 2026.

Includes the complete five-stage Abyss campaign, 5 ships, and all boss encounters without paid DLC.

Requires Windows 7 or Windows 10 64-bit operating systems to run on PC.

Runs on a minimum 2.0 GHz processor with 2 GB RAM and a DirectX 11 compatible graphics card.

Requires a modest 1 GB of available disk storage space for local game installations.

Features built-in support for Xbox controllers, PlayStation DualShock, and DualSense devices on Windows.

Developer updates resolved early issues with unresponsive UI menus and enabled custom button rebinding.

Requires setting the active Steam layout template to Default Gamepad to resolve input detection.