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
Start in your own language from the very first screen, and change it whenever you like.
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Voiced & scored
Full voice acting and an original score carry 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.
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.
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.