- Manage your own empire in a week-to-week turn-based experience.
- Control each island and ship down to the individual crewmate or building, or hire captains to do it for you.
- 11 Individual playable characters, each with their own abilities, skills, and ambitions.
- Play as a pirate, a navy, a joint-stock company, or a privateer.
- Control each ship in turn-based combat when trying to conquer others, or defending your own island from conquerors.