Developer posts and news about this game.
Ahoy Captains! While Abandon Ship has been out for a few years now, we still like to release occasional updates to mark various anniversaries of our Early Access or Full release - this one isn't a "special" anniversary, but we still wanted to do it as the game means a lot to ever
Ahoy Captains! We thought we'd keep you in the loop about our plans as it's been a while since our last update: This October will mark our 5-year anniversary of the full release of Abandon Ship, and you'll know from our other anniversaries we like to give away free updates that c
Ahoy there Captain, you should be sure to check out all of the excellent games in the fest that Valve are currently running: Pirates versus Ninjas! What's more, you can grab Abandon Ship for 70% off - show them ninjas who's boss!
We are excited to announce that we are once again supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Oceans Day! The WDC World Oceans Day Sale is already live and runs until 15th June, 10am PDT 2023, and you can save a fin-tastic (groan) amount of money on loads of awesome
Ahoy Captains! Rewind 5 years to February 2018 and we released Abandon Ship into Early Access, so we thought it appropriate to mark the occasion with a new free update. The night we launched, we shot to 4th in the Global Top Seller charts, which was an amazing accomplishment for
We're very happy to be hosting the third iteration of the Guildford Games Festival on Steam, which runs from December 1st through to the 5th. All of the games on Steam developed in the GU postcode area can be found on this page, many with discounts so it's a great opportunity to
Abandon Ship is in the War Child Steam Sale from 24-31 August! A % from every copy sold will go to War Child, which supports children affected by war in Ukraine, Yemen, DRC, CAR, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Check it out here, get some games and feel good about supporting a worthy caus
This patch is to fix a bug that was raised on the Steam forums about an issue with the Devilrock tutorial. If the player triggers the Devilrock event in the port, then opens up the Ship Management menu and removes all the mortars from their deck, then enters the event as usual th
Ahoy Captain, As we mentioned here , we're updating the game with some of the additions from our recent ports - the first of this is some general bug fixes: Fixed a bug with the AI demanding surrender. The option to choose surrender meant the player received a reward instead of a
Ahoy there Captain! We've updated our soundtrack with a bonus song. For a recent trailer we thought it'd be cool to do our take on a classic sea shanty - but of course this being Abandon Ship it had to have a dark twist on it >:) You can find the soundtrack from our composer A
We are excited to announce that we are supporting WDC, Whale and Dolphin Conservation for World Oceans Day! The WDC World Oceans Day Sale runs until 13th June, 10am PDT 2022, and you can save a fin-tastic (groan) amount on Abandon Ship - we'll be donating 50% of our net profits t
Ahoy Captains! Along with our partners from PID Games, we’re pleased to announce that Abandon Ship is coming to new platforms! First up is the mobile version, which you can pre-order from the Apple Store here and the Google Play Store here . There's a few reasons we're posting ab
Happy Halloween, Captains! We thought we'd surface to remind you about a particularly spooky part of the game that you may wish to revisit... The Haunted Seas The Haunted Seas revolves around the story of a Captain with a tragic past, lured to Death's own realm for past deeds. On
Ahoy Captain! Earlier this year we celebrated our Early Access anniversary by giving away some free ships, and as it's been 1-year since we released version 1.0, we're doing it again! Here are the three new vessels we've added in this latest free update: These correspond to the F
Ahoy, me hearties! With "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" rapidly approaching, what better time to provide an update on goings-on at Fireblade Software HQ :) To get in the pirate-themed mood, I suggest listening to this: Incoming Update We've got a small update that we're pl
We've added more improvements to the Simplified Chinese, Polish and German translations. We've also fixed a bug in a quest where a new Friend or Enemy could be displayed incorrectly.
Ahoy Captains, We hope you are all well in these exceedingly strange times. We've added Polish to the game, which we're really happy about because it was an oft requested language. This joins our roster of the following supported languages - Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese,
Note - this post originally appeared here: We're re-posting it so that it appears in the correct "recently updated" section in the Library, otherwise you would have to search the forums to see it. We've added the latest Simplified Chinese translations, completing this language. T
Note - this post originally appeared here: We're re-posting it here so that it appears under the "recent updates" section, otherwise you'd need to search the forums to find it. To celebrate the 2 year anniversary of our Early Access launch, we've released three new ships to fight
Note: We're re-posting our post full release patch notes that were originally logged in the forums. This post originally appeared here: Added a failsafe check to our loading clean-up code to ensure it runs even if the first attempt fails.