Loud, pixel-art naval combat in the age of sail. Your cannons fire from the side, so positioning is aiming: get your broadside on them before theirs is on you.
No crosshair. Your guns fire from the beam, so the fight is won at the helm: wind, momentum and turn rate.
Every hit is a show
Balls arc through the air, hulls splinter, sails tear, magazines go up and ships roll over and sink.
Readable at a glance
Class, damage, fire, torn sails and the loaded side all show on the ship itself. No guessing, just shooting.
Gameplay
Watch it burn
The fleet
From sloop to galleon
Sink and plunder for gold, then buy bigger hulls, more cannons and better shot. Point at a ship and it comes about to face you. Every class beats a fully upgraded ship of the class below, but a sloop still out-runs them all.
Sloop
Quick, nimble, out-runs anything that floats.
Hull
100
Speed
90
Turn
90/s
Guns
1 a side
Sails over reefs
Brig
The brawler. First ship with a bow chaser and a swivel gun.
Hull
230
Speed
75
Turn
65/s
Guns
3 a side
Bow chaser, swivel
Frigate
Two gun decks and the legs to choose its fights.
Hull
640
Speed
65
Turn
45/s
Guns
8 a side
2 bow chasers, swivel, stern lanterns
Galleon
A floating fortress. Slow to turn, terrible to face.
Hull
1300
Speed
50
Turn
30/s
Guns
12 a side
2 bow chasers, swivel, stern lanterns
The arsenal
Pick your poison
Round shot
DMG 12 RNG 220
Long range, honest damage. The default for a reason.
Chain shot
DMG 6 RNG 176
Shreds sails. A ship with torn canvas limps along at half speed.
Grape shot
DMG 6 x3 RNG 121
A shotgun blast at close range. Every pellet kills crew and slows their reload.
Fire shot
DMG 8 + burn RNG 220
Sets the target alight. Burning ships blow their magazines far more often.
Powder magazine
And sometimes, boom.
A ship sunk under fire can blow its magazine: a fireball, a shockwave and burning debris that hurt everything nearby, and can set off the next ship's magazine too. Fire shot makes it far more likely.
Bow chasers
Swivel guns
Powder kegs
Repair kits
Fair winds
Armour
Modes
Crew up or sail alone
Online · up to 4
Deathmatch
Pick a fully rigged ship, hunt the others, first to the kill limit wins. Host for your mates and fill empty seats with bots.
Online · up to 4
Co-op Last Stand
Hold the port together against growing raider waves, with a boss galleon every fifth wave. Split the gold by damage dealt.
Solo
Last Stand
One port, endless waves, a shop between rounds. Chase your best score on the leaderboard.
Solo
Open sea
Islands, ports, pirates and fat merchant hulls. Plunder, upgrade, and climb from sloop to galleon.
Solo
Sandbox
Any ship, every upgrade, place enemies wherever you like and watch it all burn.
Solo
Tutorial
Learn to sail, to aim with your hull, and when to switch to chain shot.
Your mother was a dinghySunk by a sloop, how embarrassing
The sea fights back
Wind, fog, night and ice
Wind
Fastest on a beam reach, crawling into the wind. The sea pushes back.
Fog banks
Drifting fog hides ships until you're right on top of them.
Smoke screens
Lay a cloud astern, break the line of sight, come about.
Night
Only lanterns, fires and muzzle flashes give a ship away.
Arctic
Ice floes to hide behind, crack with round shot, or ram.
Reefs
Light hulls sail over them. Deep hulls run aground.
Night actionArctic waters
Screenshots
Postcards from the deep
Built with PAGAN
Every pixel, written as text
Every ship, explosion, wave and button in Age of Boom (and on this page) is drawn with PAGAN, the Pixel Art Grammar And Notation: voxel hulls rendered in 32 headings, sails that furl and tear, team colours by palette swap, all built from text source files.
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Bow chasers
Swivel guns
Powder kegs
Repair kits
Fair winds
Armour
