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Bargains, Curses & Colours Early Access Update v1.6.53 This one is long because it covers several weeks. Everything since v1.5.6 went through the playtest first, over several updates, and it all lands on the main game today. If your last voyage was v1.5.6, everything below is
Captains & Caves Early Access Update v1.5.6 This is the biggest update Pirate Twist has had, and the first one with work from a sound designer and an artist in it. It spent the last three weeks on the playtest, where people much better at breaking things than me broke it. If
🏴☠️ Playtest Update v1.5.3 🏴☠️ Three releases in one. The playtest is open, and a key costs nothing. The art replacement has started The Captain Picker and the Captain Chamber are redesigned, and the player sloop is repainted. The picker above is the new one. Plenty more to c
Pirate Twist is now $4.67, permanently ⚓ Not a sale, not a weekend thing. This is the new base price for the rest of Early Access, and it comes with a thank you and a small apology. 💰 Why $4.67 I had settled on $4.99. Then I asked my kid, who has watched this game get built at t
Early Access Update v1.4.3 ⚓ Two updates went out quietly last month. v1.4.1 and v1.4.2 were both live within days of each other and neither got a post, because at the time they read like housekeeping. Looking at them next to what landed this week, they do not. So all three come
Early Access Update v1.4.0 ⚓ Three updates have been riding at anchor waiting on one another. Enough of that — they all come ashore today. A word on why they queued up. Pirate Twist is made by one person: me, in the evenings, around a wife and two kids who can now identify a cann
The Codex is now online Captains — the ship's library has come ashore. The Codex you open in game now lives on the website too, at piratetwistgame.com/codex . 147 entries across nine sections, illustrated with the game's own graphics, and searchable — so "what does Knighthead Bra
The First Sea is free ⚓ The Pirate Twist Demo is out now — free, on the store page, right under the trailer. One captain, one full expedition, the complete loop: sail, fight, dock, refit, and duel a named boss captain for the sea. No time limit, no locked systems. 🏴☠️ In the de
Pirate Twist v1.1.1 — the Ultrawide Update 🖥️⚓ If you sail on an ultrawide monitor, this one's for you. Until today, Pirate Twist on a 21:9 or 32:9 screen was honestly a mess — menus blown up and cut off, the expedition chart huddled in the middle of the parchment, end-screens s
Pirate Twist v1.1.0 — the Ammo & Arsenal update ⚓ The biggest patch since Early Access launched. Your shot locker just became a real decision, six boss captains learned to fight with a signature shot, and controllers are fully, natively in — Deck, PlayStation, Xbox. 🎯 Every
Pirate Twist v1.0.1 — the Steam Deck update ⚓ The first patch of Early Access is live — built, tested, and tuned on a Steam Deck , with a combat rework that makes chain and grape shot earn their price tags. 🎮 Steam Deck support Native controller scheme — LB cycles ammo, RB swaps
The harbor chains drop today ⚓ Pirate Twist is out now in Early Access — with 15% off for the first 7 days . You are the captain — and the ship is yours to build. Lay out every cannon, hold, and hull plate yourself on the 5×8 module grid, then take your build to sea: branching en
Two Weeks to Early Access Captains — set your charts. Pirate Twist sails into Early Access on July 15. It's been a long haul to get the ship seaworthy, and you've been aboard for the worst of the weather. Now the date is fixed and the horizon's in sight. What's aboard at launch T
Want in the Playtest? The Crew Musters in the Discord Captains — we need hands on the ship, and we need them telling us the truth. The Pirate Twist playtest crew is mustering: early builds before anyone else, a name in the credits, and a real say in where this game sails. We read
Every great voyage needs a crew, Captains. We've opened the doors to the Pirate Twist Discord — the wardroom where the wind, the broadsides, and the boss captains get argued over between expeditions. Come Aboard For Dev updates first. Patch notes, build drops, and what's heading
Pirate Twist — Playtest Update v0.1.0 Ahoy sailors! A big update has hit the Playtest branch. Here's everything new since the last build: ⚔️ New Ramming combat — line up a bow-on charge and smash into enemy hulls. Adds new structural modules ( Ram Prow , Hull Bracing ) and a dedi
The horizon's in sight, Captains — Pirate Twist sets sail into Early Access in 30 days . To mark the countdown, a fresh Playtest build has docked, and she handles like a different vessel — the biggest pass yet on the parts that matter: the wind that drives you, the broadsides tha