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Oh wow, this is quite the surprise!

We listened to the start and this is actually pretty enjoyable!
Also, we caught some clear hints here and there that prove the composer is familiar with Muppet Treasure Island.
Thought we wouldn't catch that?
Nice touch!

"I wrote a pirate musical":

A new installment has been announced for the first quarter of 2026. It's supposed to offer more free play (sandbox) and be less linear (story-driven). So, more in the vein of Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships again.


Developer: ReCon Team

Publisher: BlackMark Studio, Valkyrie Initiative

Someone on Facebook just informed me about this here:
Not bad!

Welcome to the world of Joshua Smoot - the bastard son of Treasure Island's John Flint - the evil benefactor of Savannah - who finally spawns a son by one of his concubines.

Flint kidnaps the eight-year-old lad and takes him to England to be raised as a gentleman, but Joshua's refusal to accept the name Thomas Flint condemns him to a life of dishonor that earns him two King's warrants for his head and drives him to indenture himself to America with a young woman he intends to marry. But enroute, his betrothed is forced to watch him hanged from a yardarm or be sent into slavery somewhere in the Caribbean. And so, Joshua Smoot is separated from Rebecca Keyes and condemned to the sugar plantations of Cuba.

If you have salt water in your veins like me, then you will thrill to the full spectrum of love versus hate, loyalty versus betrayal, freedom versus bondage, and the extremes of mankind's goodness and evil toward one another as Joshua - along with Long John Silver and John...

Ahoy there!

First of, major shoutout to horse gamers worldwide. We know of your plight, and you are definitely not alone! Consider yourself hugged!

Alright, that's it!
We, the ladies and gentlemen of the PiratesAhoy!-community are sick of our favourite genre getting trampled on, ignored, called dead and bad!
We are no longer willing to just sit there and watch its decline!
Today, we will show you that there are entire new horizons to explore behind the behemoth's shadow, Black Flag! Show you that the genre is plentiful and alive, that we have competent and dedicated developers willing to take you, your ship, and your crew to the vast world on the water, towards adventure and glory!

Thus we present to you...

The most piratey guide to pirate games that has ever pirated in the history of piracy!

If you want to skip the following old man-ramblings and get to the good stuff right away, then scroll down until you hit the big, bold text.

But first, lemme tell you a touching story...

Price is more than fair in my opinion:

With 2023 coming to an end, I wanted to seize the opportunity to recap what we have achieved this past year and what we are working towards in 2024. To make the message as short as possible, I will keep to bullet points:
In 2023 we managed the following:

• We tripled the member count for our lovely discord community (from around 350 members to more than 1100)
• @Hammie not only introduced us to Beyond New Horizons on the open source StormX engine but even managed to get it to a beta state
• @Mirsaneli significantly upgraded Maelstrom New Horizons in terms of features and quality of life improvements
• We managed to host 10 podcasts on our discord server with various creators in the pirate game community
• We managed to get the English translation for the Russian reconstruction OS mod rolling, allowing us to enjoy this awesome mod soon in English as well
• We reactivated our old community Youtube account, hit 1000+ subscribers...

The release trailer for Corsairs Legacy is out!
The game is coming out in early access, January 2024!


For more info:

Tune in this Sunday to ask what you want to our "Captain" of many years: ME!

And also, watch back last week's podcast with ModernKnight on ERAS 2 here:

DATE: Sunday 10 December 2023
TIME: 20:00 CET
LOCATION: Join the PiratesAhoy! Discord Server!

A friendly reminder that in less than 24 hours, we will be hosting our next podcast with the one and only ModernKnight from the Buccaneer's Reef:

A true expert on the Age of Piracy if ever there was one!
He's responsible for the Historical ERAS 2 project, as well as the creation of the updated Maelstrom game engine.

Here is your chance to ask him anything.

And as added bonus, we'll be handing out 20 license keys for the Maelstrom engine, giving you access to a considerable selection of pirate and historical seafaring gameplay and simulations.

DATE: Saturday 2 December 2023
TIME: 20:00 CET
LOCATION: Join the PiratesAhoy! Discord Server!

Ahoy!

Today we are proud to launch our website for the New Horizons modifications at www.piratehorizons.com. The aim of this project is to allow new players to understand more easily what the differences between the New Horizons versions are and to pick the version that they believe to be the right one for them. Hope you check it out and feel free to leave any feedback

Play through the classic stock version of the 2003 "Pirates of the Caribbean" tie-in game,
made by Akella and released in cooperation with Disney Interactive, Bethesda and UbiSoft together with the head of PiratesAhoy!
You may learn some history... or discover hidden secrets.
Who knows what the future will bring?

This channel uses our very own New Horizons mod as a framing device to share all sorts of pirate news and stories.
Check it out on our new playlist:

Ahoy Pirates!

@Mirsaneli posted an awesome gameplay video of Beyond New Horizons on Youtube today! Take a minute to check out what @Hammie has been up to in the last few months with porting our beloved New Horizons mod to the newest open source Storm engine.

Ahoy pirates!

We had a blast on the Caribbean Legend Discord podcast with @Joruba yesterday evening. If you are interested in the recording (more than one hour of questions asked and answered), feel free to listen to below video recording

In case you didn't know pre-orders for Corsairs Legacy are open. Furthermore there have been updates to the Demo that you can download on Steam.

Ahoy!
Today we have a very special announcement for you! We will host the lead developer of TEHO and Caribbean Legend, Joruba from Blackmark studios, next saturday, the 14th october on our discord server with a podcast about the upcoming Caribbean Legends. Since it's always difficult with the timezones, we decided to direct this first podcast to our American audience with the starting time being 3 pm in Austin, Texas. (American Central Time) However, this being 10 pm in Central Europe, we Europeans can also participate. So prepare your messages and ask what you have always wanted to know about the journey the Sea Dogs series has been through and what this latest installment will have to offer. As a bonus, we will be giving away 10 steam keys for Caribbean Legend to those of you, who participate the most during the event. By following the link Tritt dem PiratesAhoy!-Discord-Server bei! you can join our server and...

Ahoy pirates!

@Hammie has created an awesome standalone alpha version of New Horizons (no base game required!) paired with the open source storm engine from Sea Dogs To Each His Own. You can read all about it in this here link: WIP - Beyond New Horizons Alpha Release.

Give it a try and report any bugs you may encounter on our piratesahoy github: Issues · PiratesAhoy/new-horizons!

You can try out a demo of Corsairs Legacy on Steam right now!