🏴☠️ YAARRGH! Battle Island! Joins Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest!
Me hearties - we made it in!
We’re excited to announce that YAARRGH! Battle Island! is officially participating in Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest 2026!
From August 31 through September 7, we’ll be sailing alongside a huge collection of PvE survival and crafting games on Steam.
And for YAARRGH!, it couldn’t be a better fit.
Build by Day. Survive by Night.
YAARRGH! Battle Island! is a co-op pirate PvE survival crafting roguelite where everything you do during daylight prepares you for the siege to come.
Explore procedurally generated islands, gather and mine resources, process raw materials through interconnected crafting chains, build a fortified pirate stronghold, and prepare your crew before darkness falls.
Then the skeletons arrive.
🌲 Gather, Mine & Craft
Daylight is your opportunity to prepare.
Chop trees, mine stone and iron, gather food and water, hunt for useful materials, uncover buried treasure, and bring everything back to your growing stronghold.
Raw resources can then be processed through specialised crafting chains:
Turn trees into trunks and logs
Process timber into boards, planks, beams, palings and firewood
Smelt iron ore into useful crafting materials
Process stone for construction
Cure hides into leather
Produce leather strips and rope
Prepare food and supplies for your crew
Use specialised workstations to expand what you can produce and turn your island camp into a functioning crafting network.
🔨 Build Your Stronghold
Those resources aren’t just numbers sitting in an inventory.
They become the walls, towers, gates, workstations, cannons, traps and supplies that keep your crew alive.
Choose where to establish your stronghold.
Create choke points.
Reinforce weak areas.
Protect your crafting infrastructure.
And build as much as you can before the sun disappears.
Because once night arrives, your fortress gets tested.
💀 Survive the Skeleton Siege
When darkness falls, escalating skeleton hordes attack everything you’ve built.
Defend your walls.
Fight through breaches.
Protect important structures.
Keep your crew alive.
And hold the stronghold until morning.
The longer you survive, the greater the pressure becomes.
What you build during the day determines how well you survive the night.
⚔️ Bring Your Crew
Play solo or team up with friends.
Split the workload during daylight - gathering, mining, crafting, cooking, building, and hunting for treasure.
Then regroup when night falls and defend the island together.
Because when the skeletons reach the walls, every pirate has a job to do.
🏝️ Every Run Is Different
Each run takes place on a procedurally generated island with different terrain, resources, treasure locations, and defensive opportunities.
Adapt your crafting and building strategy to the island you’re given, discover new upgrade paths, and push further with every attempt.
Gather. Mine. Craft. Build. Defend. Survive.
Steam PvE Survival Crafting Fest is a great opportunity for us to introduce YAARRGH! Battle Island! to more players who love survival, crafting, base building, and PvE combat.
We’re a small indie crew, and seeing YAARRGH! included in the festival is another big milestone for us.
To everyone who has followed development, joined our community, taken part in our playtests, shared feedback, or supported the project:
Thank you. 🏴☠️
There’s plenty more ahead.
⚓ Join the Crew
YAARRGH! Battle Island! is in active development and shaped by community playtests.
If the game looks like your kind of pirate adventure:
❤️ Wishlist YAARRGH! Battle Island!
And come help us build the ultimate pirate survival experience.
Build by Day. Survive by Night. 💀🏴☠️