Ship Life

Open-world survival

Ship Life is an online open-world survival sandbox for PC, set across a world of kingdoms, islands, monsters and other players. You wash ashore with nothing, then gather materials, craft equipment and build up the skills and resources to make a life there. The central project is your ship: you design it piece by piece and build it by hand.

Shipbuilding and sailing

At a dry dock, you lay out a ship in the shipwright’s yard, then use a hammer and scaffold to construct it. Sailing depends on real wind physics, including apparent wind, sail lift and trim, rather than a speed stat. You can also fit boilers, turbines, paddle wheels and screws to power a ship with steam. Push a boiler too hard and it can burst.