Abandon Ship
Fantasy naval strategy where captains can survive shipwrecks
Fireblade Software · Released Oct 22, 2019
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 73% of 1,355
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 5
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Apr 29, 2025
What is Abandon Ship?
Abandon Ship is a single-player, real-time naval strategy game set in a fantasy Age of Sail world. You explore island regions, direct your crew and weapons in battles against ships and sea monsters, and upgrade your vessel while pursuing a campaign to overthrow a cult. Other campaigns and a Freeplay mode have different goals.
For you if...
- +you enjoy managing a crew during tactical ship battles
- +you like exploring dark fantasy islands and making story choices
- +you enjoy upgrading ships across separate campaigns
Not for you if...
- −you want a forgiving game without permanent death
- −you prefer exploration without frequent tactical battles
- −you want to play with friends instead of alone
What players say
73% of 1,355 reviews are positive
Players praise the tactical ship combat and crew management, while some enjoy the story. The most common complaint is that battles become repetitive, particularly Kraken encounters; some players also find the story thin.
How many players finish Abandon Ship?
4.5% of Steam players have unlocked «Patricide», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
Abandon Ship system requirements
Minimum: HD 6000, 4 GB RAM, 10 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Abandon Ship?
Tell us your graphics card once and every game page will answer this for you.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 64-Bit
- Processor
- 2.2GHz Processor
- Graphics
- Intel HD Graphics 6000 or equivalent
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 10 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
- Notes
- Some owners of older ATI graphics cards may need to run the game in DirectX 9 mode.
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Does Abandon Ship have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Abandon Ship run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 87
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
- Languages
- Full audio: English. Text only: Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Polish.
Does Abandon Ship use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Pirates
- Roguelite
- Naval
- Lovecraftian
- Naval Combat
- Real Time Tactics
- Choose Your Own Adventure
- Story Rich
- Exploration
- Dark Fantasy
- Open World
- Perma Death
- Survival
- Tactical
- Strategy
- Procedural Generation
Recent updates
- Apr 29, 2025 · Abandon Ship Anniversary Update
- Feb 17, 2023 · 2023 Anniversary Update!
- Jul 11, 2022 · Patch: Version Number "1.3.18557"
- Jun 23, 2022 · Latest Build Patch Notes
- Oct 22, 2020 · Anniversary Update!
2 DLC available.