Perdition Wake

A fast, top-down naval action RPG where you fight through pirate hell, turning a tiny gunboat into a demonic warship—all to heavy metal and the captain’s relentless trash talk.

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What it is

You fight fleets, not duels

Fire both sides, chain the explosions, keep moving. Mortars, sea mines, torpedoes, a ram and a dash on top of the guns.

One ship, across every session

Everything you haul out of the water goes into the same hull, from gunboat up to dreadnought. Nothing resets between voyages.

An open sea, gated by how strong you are

Deeper water pays more and kills faster. Sink, and your wreck floats where you went down with the whole haul in it — you get one trip back.

Three skill trees, and not enough points

Ramming, guns and heavy weapons. You cannot fill all three, and respeccing is cheap enough to be a real option.

Cursed relics, found only in deep water

Elemental ammunition, chain lightning, cursed wakes. They bend the rules and each one takes something back.

Tech requirements

Desktop or laptop. No phones, no tablets.
Chrome, Edge or Firefox, recent version.
Keyboard and mouse. All bindings changeable.
Nothing to install. No account.

Disclaimer

Art, sound and effects are placeholder. Some of it is AI-generated scaffolding and all of it is going in the bin as development continues.
Balance moves week to week, and an update can reset or corrupt your saved ship. Your ship lives in this browser, so clearing site data loses it.
The game sends anonymous play data — what you fought, how far you got, what sank you. Sending it is required to play. No account, no name, no email, just a random id so the voyages from one player stay linked.

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We will send you the URL and the password by email. This is done by hand, so expect days rather than minutes — and nothing in your inbox in between. Every request is read.

Email * What to call you Anything else Store my email address so you can send me the playtest password and write to me about this playtest. Required Also write to me about future playtests and when the game comes out. Optional, and refusing changes nothing about your access. Every such email says how to stop them, and you can withdraw at any time.

Your address is used for nothing else, is never sold, and is never joined up with the game's anonymous play data, and it goes to no one but us. Ask us and it is deleted the same day; if you never do, it deletes itself after about a year. The privacy policy spells all of this out.