Captain Contraband Demo

Trade, smuggle or plunder. The dead are coming either way.

Captain Contraband is a real-time pirate roguelike played on a hand-inked 1600s sea chart. In 40-minute voyages you sail a sea that's different every time, fight with cannons in real time, and collect cursed Sacraments that make you stronger at a price. Then the year runs out, and a ghost tide comes for the map.

Make your fortune your way

• Trade 32 goods: buy where they're made, sell where they're rare
• Take delivery and bounty contracts from the notice board
• Smuggle past customs, raid merchants and loot wrecks
• Hire a crew and upgrade your ship in port

In the demo

• Play as Feng and The Mingqin: flaming broadsides, and a phoenix egg that brings your ship back from the brink
• Find Unholy Sacraments and decide which curses are worth it
• Face events where one choice can save or sink you

In the full game

• Tako (probably not just two octopuses in a trenchcoat) and the ink-spraying Little Kraken
• Zhivko Yakov, a Bulgarian beekeeper whose ship fights with honey and bees
• All 39 Sacraments, and the Forgotten Captain's ghost galleon
• Random seeded worlds

The tide is coming. When the year ends, the dead flood the sea, and every port they touch is lost.

Wishlisting is the best way to help a small indie team. It tells Steam to show the game to more people, and you'll hear the moment the full voyage sets sail.

About the developer

Captain Contraband is made by Madison Williams and his very small team of friends at Zweihänder Games. I've been working on this game part-time since 2018 (lol).

Bug reports and ideas are very welcome in the comments or on Discord: discord.gg/tvmmqCYr6H