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Abandon Ship

Crew up, sail pirate seas

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Adventure

Languages

English

Abandon Ship takes you on a journey as a hunted Captain in an 'Age of Sail' setting. Explore unique, story-filled islands across diverse biomes, from haunted seas to spider-infested lands. Engage enemy vessels and sea monsters in tactical combat where weather and environment—like lightning and volcanic bombardments—directly impact your strategy. With permadeath, every decision counts, but escaping to a lifeboat offers a chance to fight your way back to the top.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

92/100

Abandon Ship is a masterclass in atmospheric maritime strategy. From the moment you set sail, the game’s striking art style—inspired by classic naval oil paintings—pulls you into a world that feels both historical and hauntingly fantastical. You aren't just playing a strategy game; you're living the desperate life of a captain hunted by a Cthulhu-esque cult.

The tactical combat is where the game truly shines. Managing your crew while simultaneously dealing with tidal waves, lightning strikes, and boarders creates a high-pressure environment that rewards careful planning and quick thinking. The diversity of the biomes, from spider-infested islands to haunted seas, ensures that exploration never feels repetitive.

What I love most is that ship destruction isn't the end. Escaping to a lifeboat and surviving against all odds to build a new legacy adds a unique layer of narrative weight that most roguelikes lack. It’s a punishing but fair experience that captures the brutal reality of the Age of Sail with a brilliant fantasy twist.

Dinsun reviewed on: Mon Feb 26 2024

Features

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Oil Painting Art Style

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Tactical Crew Management

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Dynamic Weather Effects

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Multiple Story Campaigns

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Permadeath Mechanics

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

If your ship is destroyed, you can escape in a lifeboat. As long as the Captain survives, the game continues.

Ratings & Reviews

A little help?
Mon Aug 22 2022 Crazydray

I just got the game today and enjoyed it so much I bought the full game, anyway I just entered the haunted island whirlpool zone mission where you follow a ship into a whirlpool, and then I left the app and saved the game. Now when I enter my save I am put on the other side of the whirlpool but it’s all messed up. There’s 2 gates on top and bottom and both closed. I went through there before and when you go out the bottom it spits you out on the top. Any way both of them are closed and I can’t do the fight to go through the bottom because it won’t pop up. And the whirlpool is in the center of the map for some reason and I can’t go through it. I searched the whole area and there’s no way I can get out. And when I realize my save it puts me back at the same spot. So I’m stuck which no way out. And I have put a lot of time in, like a LOT. So I really don’t want to lose it all. Any help here Devs?

An Amazing ship game, but confusing to new players
Mon Nov 07 2022 Asiancrackers

So, a little clarification, this game is great. Hands down one of the best games on the store and worth buying, I wish there was free play for you know. FREE! But even without the small demo is enough to tell you what to expect for some of the game but the fighting ship to ship is so fun and the selection of fancy weapons and gadgets, even some original cool weapons depending on what your play style is. Want to go in guns blazing and board the enemy as fast as you can and get good loot? Then get grapples and grapeshot. If you want to stay in the back to wreak havoc on any ship who dares attack you? Use catapults and mortars. You have any play style you want, but if you so buy the game it doesn’t explain much until (huge spoilers ahead, I know I already spoiled but that’s barely anything, but maybe read to expect what will happen so you’ll be prepared in some way) you fight the kraken. Then it gives you much more freedom to do the things before you got there but figuring that out was weird and also confusing, all the missions leading up to were cool but I didn’t know how hard the fight was until I did it and it was so significantly easy when I figured out the gimmick. It was still fun but it doesn’t usually give you a good clue of what you are supposed to do. But that’s the only problem I have with the main campaign. Everything else so far has been the greatest. Do recommend, and do buy. Unless you don’t wanna :)

Great game. Enjoying.
Mon Feb 17 2025 Andante Aligheri

Title says it all. Wouldn’t mind supporting them with their additional content, which turns out to be a great value too. The quality of life tweaks I would say are all on the assigning-starting-positions-on-the-ship-screen, you can only see icons of the weapons manned on one side (the ship facing right) but not on the opposite side, and the screen is quite small. Zoom in more. Use that negative space so you can be more accurate in assigning where they go. I also forget what weapons are on which side. Maybe the names of the weapon can be shown cuz some are not visually distinct enough. Can a lot be done by the player? Yes, hence why it’s a quality of life suggestion. But yeah, the biggest is the no icons on the opposite side for easy assignments.

Good, but tough.
Mon Jul 18 2022 Kyle Llamas

It’s good. Excellent crew/ship developer. Worth the price. Very frustrating at first, very hard to accumulate coin when profits are stingy and random calamities so costly. BUT, it gets better if you can grit through and develop your crew. A random crew member at any time can be crippled and it costs 50 to first revive him and then 79 more to remove the permanent crippling affliction afterwards - or live with it. A ‘score’ after a successful fight you get 30 coin. Woo hoo. Maybe. Many fights you get nothing except costly damage to your ship. The world is large, and I am only just getting immersed and starting to reap more profits with a (now) more experienced crew. Don’t get me wrong, it’s excellent and absorbing. Hey! Wanna explore all the different ways you can inflict immensely costly afflictions to your crew and get mostly nothing? Buy a diving bell! (Just kidding, it is a great, but frustrating game).

good game
Sat Feb 08 2025 Piegod101

this is actually a very good game and I would highly recommend purchasing the full game to get the better options and stuff and so you can actually explore the game. I will say this the random bits are like the same 8 to 12 events to just have random outcomes and the AI is very very simplistic and does not offer very much challenge once you get two separate upgrades as soon as you harpoon their boat, they will drop everything to cut the lines which means they will stop shooting back and they will stop fleeing from you. And as soon as you get the performance upgrade on the mask, you will change lane so fast that they can’t get away from you anyway.

Amazing Game, one of the best ship mobile games
Mon Oct 10 2022 Sevexery

Ive been playing, and I absolutely live the game. During the campaign you absolutely feel like you’re scrambling to thwart the cult, and Its so much fun. I haven’t bought the full game yet, and I wish that the game would tell you before that you need to purchase the full game in order to complete the campaign, but other than that, this seems very promising. I would definitely say that this game is going to be worth buying the full game. I almost wish this was ported to PC, because I would love playing this on my rig. Anyways, this game is amazing, the mix of lovecraftian cult and pirate simulator works so well, and I just live it.

Very good game
Sun Apr 23 2023 sliverfish123

I think it's very well made and worth the ten dollars. There are a lot of different challenges and just as many strategies to overcome them. You choose the make up of your crew and the set up and weapons and whatever ship you can afford. It's pretty realistic too which some may not like, but personally I appreciate it. When you die you can either try to continue from the lowest ship with no crew or load your last captain's log which can end being a lot of progress lost. I can't wait to finish the campaign and explore the other game modes.

Weapons tutorial issue
Mon Aug 15 2022 Mr.Guerra

I’m working through the tutorial and when it comes to the buying weapons such as the mortar in the tutorial it completely stop functioning. It says the there is no space for the mortar that the tutorial makes you get and it won’t allow me to switch it out or upgrade the smaller mortar already preset on the ship. Controls go dead. Won’t let me go back cancel choose a mortar or any other option. iPhone 8 Plus on IOS 15.6. Need help getting pass this hiccup.

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