The pirate-themed city-building and real-time strategy game from Crazy Goat Games and PQube is expanding to two current-gen consoles.

Set sail for the heart of the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy! In this era of opportunity, daring freebooters seek their fortune on the high seas, black-sailed marauders hunt Spanish treasure ships returning from the New World, and opportunistic privateers, emboldened by their “letters of marque,” profit from war under influential patrons. At the heart of this ruthless world lies the Republic of Pirates, a powerful league of pirate clans united by shared ideology, ambition, and a code of honor. While the confederacy’s early days were prosperous, greed and jealousy quickly spread among its members, culminating in a brutal mutiny and a bloody dissolution.

Set out to reclaim your father’s legacy and bring justice to the traitors who wronged you. Grow your humble outpost into a sprawling settlement by investing in production buildings to create a self-sustaining economy. Use the black market to distribute valuable resources and enrich your pirate citizens. Recruit heroic captains and command a powerful fleet in real-time as you set sail in the name of conquest. Liberate islands, defeat rival factions, and navigate complex diplomatic relationships with the global superpowers of the era.

Utilize over 100 unique buildings to ensure the resources and infrastructure needed to grow your burgeoning republic. Develop your citizens’ skills by supplying them with luxury goods and advancing to new industrial tiers with increasingly complex production chains. Send your fleet to explore the archipelago and conquer new territories in real-time naval combat. Engage in battles against vulnerable merchant vessels, marauding pirates, and formidable ships of the line. Use the tactical map to plan and execute your next raid. Forge dynamic relationships with local pirate clans and influential national trading companies. Navigate rivalries and alliances in a complex diplomatic web where every action has consequences.

Construct eight unique ship classes, from nimble brigantines to imposing ships of the line, and customize your fleet’s appearance with emblems and cosmetics. Recruit skilled captains and hone their abilities in battle to unlock new specializations and combat tactics. Launch attacks on settlements, collect bounties, and strike trade deals to strengthen your influence in the Caribbean. Race against time to complete urgent faction requests and shape your destiny by choosing how to resolve multi-choice story events. Build a legendary pirate utopia in the narrative-driven campaign, which offers over 30 hours of content, or customize your experience in freeplay mode with configurable settings, new maps to discover, and fresh challenges to tackle.

Republic of Pirates was released for PC on June 19 of last year (Steam, Epic Games Store). The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series versions are expected later this year.

Source: Gematsu