A pirate strategy game
Ransack
Build your ship, crew her with named officers, and take what the sea offers — prizes, ports, and a name they say with care.
In development and playtesting. Plays in your browser — no download, no account.
The Game
Ransack is a single-player strategy game about one ship and the crew who make her dangerous. You start with a battered hull and a short crew list; everything after that — the refits, the officers, the ports that learn to fear your colours — is earned at sea.
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Crew & officers
Recruit named crew and officers, each with their own traits, gear, and loyalties. Train them, level them, and watch green hands grow into officers worth building a ship around.
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Ship progression
Build her room by room on a live deck plan — crew quarters, beast pens, a surgeon's bay — and refit her hull level by level, from a battered starter ship to the strongest colours on the coast.
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Voyages
Plot voyages between ports. Trade, salvage, storms, and stranger encounters wait on every leg, and the weather turns as the days pass.
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Boarding & duels
Come alongside and board prizes deck to deck. Settle matters of honour in insult duels, where a sharp tongue lands before the steel does.
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Blockades & port assaults
Blockade a port to soften its garrison, then assault it and sack it. The game is named for the verb — and the verb is real gameplay.
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Daily contracts & event calendar
Fresh contracts every day, and an eight-week calendar of themed event weeks — Blockade Week, Kraken Hunt, the Regatta, Smuggler's Moon, and more.
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21 languages
The full game in 18 languages, plus 3 more in beta with core text (Quechua, Guarani, Aymara). Start in your own language from the very first screen, and change it whenever you like.
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Voiced & scored
Fully voiced in English · subtitled in 21 languages. An original score carries the story, the harbours, and the weather.
Fair rules, stated plainly: no pay-to-win, no gacha, no subscriptions. Rewards never expire, and your progress waits for you when you're called away.
The Studio
Goat Locker Studios is an independent studio making one game at a time — and making it well. Ransack is our first: designed, written, painted, voiced, and scored to be the kind of strategy game we kept wishing someone would build.
The name is borrowed from the chiefs' mess aboard ship — the goat locker, where the experienced hands keep a vessel honest.
Buy the Crew a Round
Soon you'll be able to stand the crew a round: $3 of goodwill that helps carry Ransack toward launch, with your name chalked up on the Grog Roll — our honour roll, kept on this site and in the game's own credits. The wall is built and waiting; the Grog Roll page has the details, including the plain print (a supporter purchase, not a donation).
Now in playtesting
Ransack is in active playtesting, and the current build is open to testers. It runs right here in your browser — nothing to install, no account to make. For full sound, open it in Safari or Chrome rather than inside another app's built-in browser.
Your progress saves in your own browser, on your own device. Found something broken, confusing, or brilliant? There's a feedback link inside the game — “Send word to the crow's nest” — and every report is read.
Get word when Ransack launches
Join the launch list and we'll write to you when Ransack releases — plus the occasional call for playtesters. One address, used for that and nothing else: never sold, never shared, and you're off the list the moment you ask.
That opens your email app with the request already written — just press send. How we handle your address is spelled out in our privacy policy.
From the Alliance Hall
When the crew isn't at sea in Ransack, you'll find us in KingShot — and we play it the way we build games: by the numbers. Our alliance guide, Building Combat Density in KingShot, lays out the whole doctrine: rush Town Center 22 and 25 for the multiplier systems, fund hero gear over heroes, put Lethality and Health ahead of raw Attack, march 50/20/30, and ascend only the heroes who earn it. Dense power over bloated power — free to read, share it with your own alliance if it serves.
Support
Questions, or a bug to report? Our support page has the address to write to and what to include so we can track the problem down.