Pirate city builder Corsair Cove announced for PC

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Hooded Horse and Limbic Entertainment are releasing a pirate-themed city-building game called Corsair Cove on PC in 2026. It will be available on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and the Microsoft Store.

Here is an overview of the game, via its store pages:

About

Create your own pirate base, build a powerful fleet, and fight to keep the golden age of piracy going! You’ll need to manage everything from making supplies like beer and weapons to keeping your wild crew in line to become the most powerful pirate on the ocean!

Okay, so things aren’t looking great for pirates. It feels like the good old days of freedom and treasure are slipping away because the Royal Navy is really cracking down. But honestly? I think we – the pirates – can still turn things around and keep the adventure alive! It’s up to us to save this era before it’s gone for good.

In Corsair Cove, you’re tasked with building a city that reaches for the sky – construct buildings on cliffs and hillsides with no limitations! You’ll also need to create and manage intricate production lines that stretch both far and high. Craft items ranging from spyglasses to powerful cannons, equip your pirate crew, and build impressive ships to battle the Crown. Expand your resources by raiding nearby islands and exploring unknown lands for treasure, but beware of dangers lurking within. Most importantly, keep your growing crew of thousands happy to ensure your pirate flag continues to fly high!

Hoist the Colors High

You’ll begin stranded on a deserted island with only the remains of your ship and fellow survivors. To thrive, you’ll have to use clever pirate-inspired building techniques and create daring pathways to explore the island. Because flat land is limited, you’ll need to build upwards and outwards, even on steep cliffs, to create a secure home for all pirates!

  • Growing from a humble haven to a formidable fortress, your island is not just a home for your crew, but the last bastion of your way of life. Build everything from living quarters and taverns to piers, cannon foundries, and defensive fortifications to create a truly safe harbor, taking advantage of every inch of flat surface—horizontal or otherwise—to expand your capabilities.
  • Use complex systems of bridges, ziplines, and contraptions of all kinds to efficiently move goods from place to place. Production buildings will need raw materials, and finished products need to be taken to distribution hubs—the efficient movement of goods across the chasms and cliffs of your cove can be the difference between life and death.
  • Spread your influence across the vast island to gain access to distant resource deposits of everything from iron and copper to lumber and fiber. But beware—as your buildings spread, travel between them becomes more challenging to keep efficient. The looming threat of the Crown’s lackeys requires an armada in response, and a growing population will send you chasing after advanced resources and production chains to meet their needs.

A Pirate’s Life

Pirates need more than just food and drink to stay motivated, and your best crew members will want better supplies and treatment if they’re going to remain loyal. A strong fleet also requires constant upkeep – bigger ships need better equipment and skilled sailors who expect to be compensated well. Ignoring your crew’s needs can quickly lead to discontent, and ultimately, they’ll leave you with nothing.

  • From the drifters awaiting assignment to the fetchers, builders, and workers of varying skill levels operating your production buildings and keeping your supply chains operational, each population type will have its own needs.
  • At sea, while lowly pirates will happily crew a small ship with some stew, ale, and rum on hand, truly powerful ships need more. With specialists ranging from bombardiers and navigators to marauders and renegades, you’ll need a stockpile of spyglasses, medicine, sabers and more! The most formidable ships, meanwhile, need a crew of elite sailors ranging from the descendants of the first buccaneers to veteran corsairs who require a steady supply of tobacco, pistols, and eye-patches.
  • Fine-tune intricate, sprawling production chains to manufacture and distribute over 50 different types of goods—food from basic hard tack to turtle soup and roast bird, clothes from slops and boots to fancy attire and jewelry, and everything else ranging from peg-leg prosthetics to bottles of booze and guns of all sizes.
  • Take to the seas and explore nearby islands for the opportunities and treasures they hold—some vital resources can’t be produced on your island, and you’ll have to set sail and raid locations littered around the map to acquire everything from grain and coin to whale blubber, silver, and wine.

The Seas Be Ours

The ocean surrounding your island is huge and full of both promise and peril. Gather resources to construct ships, recruit skilled crews and captains, and embark on adventures across the world. Support those fighting against the ruling government, discover valuable treasures to strengthen your position, and experience incredible pirate legends firsthand – battle massive whales, fearsome krakens, and other strange creatures as you search for famous pirates to join your team.

  • Travel to distant lands in uncharted waters to unveil and engage with unique events happening throughout the archipelago. Help smugglers transport their wares, seek treasures hidden in ancient temples, and gamble, raid, and attack enemy forts and fleets to regain control of the seas. The outcome of these events will be determined by the mettle of your crew, and the resources you’re willing to sacrifice—will you pass on your black powder reserves to arm a distant rebellion while weakening your own defensive capabilities, or would you rather leave some sailors behind to train the locals at the cost of productivity at your camp?
  • Track down and intercept enemy ships as they sail towards your island, engaging them in turn-based combat where the choice of ship, crew, and captain, combined with your tactical prowess, determines the victor.
  • Erect defensive fortifications in strategic locations around your island to eliminate enemy ships that sail too close in a hail of cannon fire. If your own ships are away, these military fortresses and gun towers are your last line of defense, standing guard as long as you can provide them with a steady supply of cannonballs and black powder.

Chart Your Own Course

In Corsair Cove, you’re a pirate with true freedom! Complete quests however you want, build your settlement in four different ways, and focus on the upgrades that matter most to you as you battle the Crown.

  • As you pursue Notoriety, Empire, Seafaring, and Wealth, you’ll unlock new tools of the trade under each category, granting you access to additional buildings, the production chains that come with them, and more powerful ships to take on increasingly dangerous challenges. Chase after the Entertainers’ Guildhall to boost productivity within an area, or pursue ziplines to hurry your pirates along their routes! Build society as you see fit, and take on challenges in your own unique way.
  • Engage with unique questlines to defeat the Crown, taking on beasts from legend and powerful strongholds alike, and pursuing your quarry through treacherous waters. These quests will take great preparation as they ask you to batten down the hatches and go full-sail into danger, presenting unique combat scenarios and engagements that rely on your ship, its crew, the captain on deck, and your own tactical temperament to see success.

Create and lead a thriving pirate community, guiding your crew to ensure the legendary era of piracy continues!

Watch the announcement trailer below.

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2026-04-17 20:47