The Kraken
The one that took your ship. Older than the trade winds. Smarter than your captain was.
You went down with the Mercy of Saint Anne in water no chart will name.
You came up with splinters, a knife, and a debt the sea owes you.
The Kraken is out there. So is everything you'll need to kill it.
What the charts don't name
Five things sailors agree on: the sea is hungry, and it is patient.
The Bloop
In 1997, NOAA hydrophones caught a sound louder than any whale ever recorded. It came from something living. This is that thing's den.
The Megalodon
Extinct is a word land-dwellers use. The hull scars say otherwise.
The Pale Orca
Hunts in silence. Coordinates the pod like a commodore. Takes ships' boats first, so no one leaves.
The Island Crab
Some of the twenty islands are islands. Some are patient. Anchor accordingly.
The life
Not a power fantasy. A profession.
Sail for real
Wind, sail plan, and hull trim decide every chase. Square-rigged speed downwind, fore-and-aft pointing into it. Run out of sea room and the rocks decide for you.
Keep a crew
They eat, they drink, they get paid, and they remember. Loyalty is a ledger. Feed them well and they'll follow you into the ink; cheat them and check your grog.
Count your doubloons
Plunder, port fees, powder, payroll, bribes. Treasure buys the guns that buy the reputation that buys the crew that kills the Kraken. Waste none of it.
Chart twenty islands
From palm anchorages to fog-bound rocks. Fresh water, repair yards, buried caches, and things that do not want you anchored there.
Hunt the deep
Whale oil lights your lamps and fills your hold. The deep fills your nightmares. Blubber pays; teeth collect.
Shout "fire"
Voice command by default: call the shot and the gunnery answers. Some crews shout fire. Yours answers.
From the water
Key art and captured footage. Click to enlarge.
Course to launch
Where we are, and where the current runs.
Answer the muster
Wishlist on Steam and join the crew quarters for dev logs, playtest keys, and kraken sightings.
Press & creators
Everything you need to cover the sea. Write to press@forsunken.com for anything else.
Press kit
Fact sheet
- Title
- Forsunken
- Genre
- Open-ocean pirate survival RPG
- Players
- 1–8 online co-op
- Platforms
- PC (Steam), consoles TBA
- Engine
- Custom
- Developer
- Forsunken Crew
- Release
- Wishlist now — date to be announced