Ultimate pirates

Ultimate pirates

Moonmana · May 29, 2024 · Strategy, Pirates, Naval, City Builder, 4X

Ultimate pirates is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Ultimate pirates is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Ultimate pirates

About this game:
A city building / strategy MMO game.

Start from a small island, build a small town first and develop it to a big city. Build pirate ships, starting from small shallops and ending huge Ships of the line, Galleons and fast Frigates, manage multiple fleets performing tasks such as killing monsters and plundering other cities. Hunt other pirates by intercepting their fleets on their way. Steal their gold, weapons and other resources.

This is an MMO game, which means you can play with your friends, or find new ones in the game.
Form alliances, chat with your teammates, organize raids to kill huge monsters together, join with your friends to perform more powerful attacks.
This is a RPG as well: you can play an evil pirate, who attacks everyone, steals from everyone or you can be a honest pirate, who helps their friends, revenge their enemies or, you can even choose to never participate in battles and be a peaceful pirate, who grows carrots, it's up to you!

DISCLAIMER:
(PLEASE read it BEFORE YOU PLAY)

My name is Artem, and I am the game designer and lead developer of this game.

This game is a gift to all players who want to try something new absolutely for FREE. There are no purchase fees, no in-app purchases (IAPs), and no ads. We do not accept any donations or payments from players. There is no way for any player to pay us money. We earn nothing from this game.

Moreover, this is an online game, and we, as developers, pay for the servers. Keeping this game online and operational without any form of monetization costs us money. In the end, this game is not just unprofitable; it results in a net loss for us.

You might be wondering why anyone in their right mind would release a game without any monetization and continue to pay for servers. Due to a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), I cannot reveal all the details of the unfortunate story of how this game was launched and why it was shut down. However, I can tell you that we spent almost 4 years developing this game, and players who liked it could only enjoy it for a couple of months.

These events and their aftermath had a devastating impact on my mental health. I am in much better shape now, but I am still dealing with the consequences to this day. Spending 4 years of my life working hard on this game and then keeping it hidden from players was one of the many reasons that led to this situation.

We cannot launch this game with a profit, but we can launch it without one. So, here we are.

Because the game is unprofitable, consider it official ABANDONWARE and don't say I didn't warn you! Do not expect any updates or support, and do not expect this game to stay online forever. Accept the game AS IS, with all its flaws, bugs, and imperfections. It has some :)

However, this game has many similarities with our other games, so, in case you need an advice, we have an amazing community of players who could probably help you on our forums and Discord.

From our end we will try to guarantee the servers of the game will be up and running as long as our company exists and could handle the costs.

I hope you will find the game enjoyable at least for some time and its unique mechanics will provide you with either adrenaline in PvP or a chill in PvE (whatever you choose to take).

Stay healthy and happy,
Sincerely yours,
Artem Shpytiak

Ultimate pirates — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP, Online co-op
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Aug 26, 2026
is a big bug in dis game i sant not atake de player.on de map an i srasced de GAME just a big bug ;-(
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Not recommended Mar 14, 2026
Doesn’t load says failed server
Recommended Dec 13, 2025
It's ok
Recommended Aug 27, 2025
I just found this game and is amazing and fun, i have couple of issues tho, when i try to see other people islands (real people) game crashes and quits, also, i should be able to restart the game and have different saved games. but it seems that i can't restart the game, so yeah, if you can fix this issues i would be absolutely grateful, also promote this game on tiktok because it definitely deserves more attention, i would love to promote it, anyways, please fix those issues.
Not recommended Aug 24, 2025
THIS GAME IS A JOKE!!!! When u get attacked u cannot attack back with a stronger fleet!!!! You would think the morons that designed the game would figure that out. Every time I get attacked I cannot engage'. Wasted my time with this stupid game!!!!!!! Then I UPGRADED MY foundry to level 4 & and it is no longer in my city. You pay for this game & it's nothing more then a joke!!!!!!!!!
Not recommended May 11, 2025
very layed back game and you need to hard core farm the gems and takes long time to get just 100gems killing monster as it says to do

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