Pirate Twist

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• Announcements·9 Sept 2026Official

  A permanent price cut to $4.67, and a thank you to everyone who paid more

  Pirate Twist is now $4.67, permanently ⚓Not a sale, not a weekend thing. This is the new base price for the rest of Early Access, and it comes with a thank you and a small apology.💰 Why $4.67I had settled on $4.99. Then I asked my kid, who has watched this game get built at the kitchen table for a year, what the number should be. The answer was $4.67, you probably know why the 67.. kids these daysThe honest reason behind the cut is less charming. Every piece of art in the game right now is mine, and I am neither an artist nor a composer. I am about to commission both properly. Until they are aboard, the price should match what is actually on deck today.⚓ And it goes back upSaying this now so nobody feels ambushed later: when the commissioned art and new music land, the price rises again, and it rises once more at 1.0. That is the bargain Early Access is supposed to be. Come aboard cheap while is rough, keep every update that follows.Nothing about your copy changes when the price does. You own it, updates included, for good.🙏 To everyone who bought at $8.99You bought a game from a stranger on the strength of a store page and a trailer, and you are the reason there is money to pay an artist and a composer at all. Thank you. Genuinely.And I am sorry. There is no getting around the fact that you paid nearly double what the next person will. Steam owns the payment side of this and I have no way to hand anyone the difference back, so I am not going to pretend otherwise.What I can do is put your name in the game. If you bought before today, come and say so in the Discord, or message @piratetwistgame on any of the socials, and you get a Founding Crew role and your name in the credits under the crew who were here first.And a spare key to hand a friend. A free Steam key, yours to give to whoever you reckon would like this. The best thing that happens to a game this small is one person telling another, so that key is worth a great deal more in your hands than sitting in my acc...
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• Patch Notes·4 Sept 2026Official

  Update v1.4.3: the sea has weather, and rakes hit the end you aimed at

  Early Access Update v1.4.3 ⚓Two updates went out quietly last month. v1.4.1 and v1.4.2 were both live within days of each other and neither got a post, because at the time they read like housekeeping. Looking at them next to what landed this week, they do not. So all three come ashore here, and if your last voyage was v1.4.0 there is a fair amount below you have not seen.🌥️ The sky moves nowI drew four cloud shapes by hand, cut them to silhouettes, and hung them over the whole sea. They are not scenery pinned to the corners of the map: they cover it, and they travel.They drift on the live wind. The same wind line you steer by is the line they follow, and the harder it blows the faster they run. Watch the shadow cross your deck and you are watching the wind you are about to sail into.They come in broad banks rather than tidy puffs, so the light on the water reads like weather instead of like polka dots. I lightened them twice after the first pass, because overlapping banks stacked into something closer to night.A dead calm has no shadows at all. Flat light on flat water. If the sea has gone blank and bright, the wind has left you, and that is its own kind of warning.🏝️ Islands stopped crowding each otherA player screenshot showed three islands filling one screen. They were not overlapping, but two of them sat close enough to read as one landmass, which flattens a stretch of sea into a wall.The scatter now guarantees open water between shores, so islands read as separate places and there is a real channel to take between them.🎯 From the Steam board: your rakes were backwardsReported plainly in General Discussions: "you've got your bow and stern mixed up when raking." Correct, and it had been that way for a long time. A shot that chases a ship from behind goes in through the stern; head-on is the bow. The game had the two swapped.So the big payoff, the one raking is built around, was quietly paying out on head-on shots while the hard stern shot underpaid. Both are the ...
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• Patch Notes·21 Aug 2026Official

  Update v1.4.0 — six captains, six ships, and a tutorial that waits for you

  Early Access Update v1.4.0 ⚓Three updates have been riding at anchor waiting on one another. Enough of that — they all come ashore today.A word on why they queued up. Pirate Twist is made by one person: me, in the evenings, around a wife and two kids who can now identify a cannon reload by ear through a closed door. So the work lands in waves rather than a steady drip. The playtest crew has been prowling the Sea Cave and learning the ropes on the rebuilt tutorial for weeks while the main game sat quietly on v1.1.1 — that ends here.And they do not arrive alone. The whole fleet has been repainted, plank by plank. If your last voyage was v1.1.1, there is not one line below you have already read.⚓ I finally gave the captains their own ships - thanks to wifeyFrom the playtest right through launch, every pirate lord you fought has been the same sloop wearing a different tint, and it bothered me a little more each time one sailed on screen. Six of them now have hulls of their own — a horned figurehead, a ram's skull, a blood-red raider — and you will know which one is bearing down on you long before you can read her nameThe rest of the fleet got the same treatment. Sloops, brigantines, galleons and elites are painted in layers now, with real rigging, and they run out more guns the deeper you sail. What you see on the deck is what fires at youThis is the one I am most pleased with: sails furl. Turn a ship into the wind's eye and watch her rig go slack — yours too. You can finally SEE a hull lose the wind instead of inferring it from the speed bar. It is a small thing and I stared at it for an embarrassing amount of timeAnd anything burning now wears painted flame that leans downwind, instead of the orange confetti it used to throw🧭 About the tutorialAn apology first. Someone refunded the game today and left a reason: "I was not even able to finish tutorial, game is too difficult, not for me." That one stung, and it is fair. Whoever you are — I am sorry. You should not have ...
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• Announcements·20 Aug 2026Official

  The Codex is now online — searchable, and straight from the game

  The Codex is now online Captains — the ship's library has come ashore. The Codex you open in game now lives on the website too, at piratetwistgame.com/codex. 147 entries across nine sections, illustrated with the game's own graphics, and searchable — so "what does Knighthead Bracing actually do" is a five-second question instead of a mid-run tab-out. 📖 What's in itModules — all 17, split by what they're FOR, with the real stat line: damage, reload, speed, HP.Crew — the six roles and what each hand gives per tier, plus the full hire catalog: 69 hands, grouped by role, each with the milestone that unlocks it. The in-game Codex lists only the Uncommons and Rares. This is all of them.Enemies — the fleet you meet, and the six boss captains named with their hull, damage, tactics odds, gun classes, ammo ladder, ram kit and hull-by-map. In game they're one line saying "each has a distinct ship and quirk." Here they have their portraits, their own painted ships, and their numbers.Captains — all five, their passives, and the signature crew that sails with each.Skills — three branches, every node, what each stage grants and what it takes to open.Combat & Encounters — gears, broadside arc, raking, shot types, the wind, and every node an expedition can drop you into.Screens — every port screen laid out and labelled region by region, with what each panel costs.⚙️ It follows the gameNone of it is transcribed by hand. The pages are generated from the build — the same text, stats and art the in-game Codex shows — so when a module gets rebalanced or a new hand joins the roster, the wiki follows. If the page and the game ever disagree, that's a bug, and we want to hear about it. 🔍 Two things worth knowingEvery entry is deep-linkable — send a crewmate straight to a module or a captain instead of "scroll down a bit."Press / anywhere on the page to jump to search, the way a wiki should. Go and read it: Open the Codex If something's missing, wrong, or reads like it was written by someone ...
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• Announcements·11 Aug 2026Official

  The First Sea is free — the Pirate Twist Demo is out now

  The First Sea is free ⚓ The Pirate Twist Demo is out now — free, on the store page, right under the trailer. One captain, one full expedition, the complete loop: sail, fight, dock, refit, and duel a named boss captain for the sea. No time limit, no locked systems. 🏴‍☠️ In the demoA full First Sea voyage — a branching chart of pirate fleets, uncharted waters, and a boss captain finaleThe Sea Cave — row into the dark with fire shot as your only light and your own burning wake as the road back. The cave makes its public debut in the demo — it reaches the full game in an upcoming updateDefend the Port — hold the fort walls through a five-wave siegeThe whole Port loop — ammo market, module mounting and dismantling, captain skillsReal roguelite stakes — defeat costs resources, not the run; win, and the First Sea comes back harder 🗺️ Already sailing the full voyage?Then this one is for your crewmates. The demo is the link to send anyone who's been on the fence — the real first sea of the game, free, no strings. (Demo progress stays with the demo — the full voyage starts fresh.) 🍻 Built with the crewEvery patch this game ships is steered by player reports. Claim a bunk in the Discord — dev posts, patch notes, and a bug-reports forum where the ship's ledger answers back. ⚓ Join the crew → discord.gg/piratetwistgame The wheel is free. Take it. Fair winds! ⚓
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