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High and Dry

Justin Stewart · Published by Goose Games

8 user reviews — 75% positive (8 reviews)

Last updated 27 Sept 2026

High and Dry is a swash-buckling strategy rogue like where you race against time to save your soul from Davey Jones! You will fight against pirates, pillage ships, take your chances with dodgy treasure maps, and whatever else you must do to gain strength before the time comes for your final battle!

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3 Sept 2026Lowest: £4.29 · Highest: £4.294 Oct 2026

Strategy · 2023 · More under £5 games

High and Dry is a thrilling strategy adventure where you navigate perilous seas, battling pirates and deciphering unreliable treasure charts, all in the race against time before facing Davey Jones.

About this game

In High and Dry you are tasked with commanding a pirate ship, trying to ready yourself to take on a showdown with Davey Jones! You made an agreement with him long ago and soon he will come for his end of the deal, are you going to go down without putting up a fight? As the clock runs down you can get stronger and upgrade your ship and your crew, but you only have so much time. Where will you focus your resources, towards better firepower to blast your enemies down? Or perhaps a larger crew to man your sails and make repairs, or maybe even purchase some abilities like mortars to knock your enemies away and dashes that help you avoid attacks!


Randomized Ocean

Each time you play aspects of the game will be randomly generated so that each play through is unique, however some things will remain the same which allows you to learn as you play to help you eventually beat the game.

Make Difficult Choices

Across the ocean many text based encounters await you, some leading to combat and others not so much. What choices will you make?

Upgrade your Ship

You will make to make difficult choices, you only have so much time before Davey comes for you soul and all, so you're going to have to choose. More crew means more people manning the cannons, or more working the sails which makes you ship move much faster and be much harder to hit. Having lots of resources is good but they will weigh you down and lower your speed and evade chance. Powerful weapon combos can take down enemy ships in a hurry, but if you can't take a volley of hits what good does it do you?

Strategy Gameplay

During combat you will have to make some decisions as well. Having someone on sails is important or your ship will move like a sloth and your percent chance to evade enemy shots will be much lower but of course you need sailors manning the cannons to attack your enemies. If your ship has some holes in it who do you send down to make the repairs? Or do you? Cannons can be destroyed and need repairs but sailors can take damage as well and sailors gain experience throughout a play through making some better at certain tasks than others. Do you want to play offensively or defensively?

System Requirements

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows® 10 64-bit (21H1 and above) / 11 64-bit (21H2 and above)
  • Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon™ R7 240X / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 730 / Intel® UHD Graphics 630
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX® 11.0 Compatible Sound Card

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Supported Languages

English*
*languages with full audio support

Latest news

  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Patch 1.065

    Potentially the final update for now. Adds a bunch new content, new islands, missions, and interactions. Added new ways for interactions to affect the player and lead to combat. Many bug fixes as well along with small QoL fixes. Thanks for playing!
    Read full article on Community Announcements (GooseGamer)
  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Update v1.06

    I've been steadily updating HaD over time but haven't documented them here. There have been a huge number of bug fixes. Bugs related to Saving and Loading have been fixed, bugs halting missions progress have been completed, as well as a bug that can prevent the player from buy new weapons. Many, many more. There was a UI makeover, ability to speed up the passing of time, and many other improvements, both in terms of gameplay and also visually. This is the most comprehensive update yet bringing it to a, hopefully, very stable point. If you have any issues, check out the discord linked on the Title Scene and let me know!
    Read full article on Community Announcements (GooseGamer)

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