Free Nassau

A Golden Age pirate deck-builder. Pick a real captain, build your deck, and sail three acts of the Caribbean to face Benjamin Hornigold.

Period engraving of a busy colonial harbour crowded with ships

Play the Game

Free, no download, no account. Runs on phone or desktop. Also on itch.io.

Set sail from Nassau

It is 1717. Nassau, on New Providence in the Bahamas, is a large, crowded port of warehouses, taverns, markets and merchant houses under a patchwork of black flags. The Crown is offering pardons, Spain guards its treasure fleets, and the free captains answer to no one.

Take command as Blackbeard, Charles Vane, Black Sam Bellamy or Anne Bonny & Mary Read. Every fight is two battles in one: trade broadsides ship against ship, then grapple and board her with your crew. Win plunder, recruit officers, careen your hull in quiet coves, and decide when to sail home with your silver.

Black Sam Bellamy — Bellamy (no likeness survives; a 1698 Luyken engraving stands in)

Charts & logbooks

The WikiThe world of Free Nassau: captains, ports, factions, ships and the history of the pirate republic. How to PlayTurns, energy, broadsides and boarding, captains’ orders, cargo, and the voyage. UpdatesThe ship’s log of changes to the game. Play on itch.ioFree Nassau is also on itch.io, playable right in the page.