Ports of Call

An Age of Exploration naval RPG — free, in your browser

You are given a ship, a small purse and a berth in a home port. What you do with the sixteenth century is your affair. Ports of Call is a trading and exploration role-playing game in the spirit of the 16-bit Koei sailing simulations — Uncharted Waters and its kin — rebuilt to run in a browser with nothing to install.

What you do

• Trade 46 commodities across 156 historical ports, on a market with finite stock where dumping a hold moves the price and distance is what pays.
• Sail a real world map with wind, leeway, ocean currents, seasons and weather that knows its own latitude.
• Fight ship-to-ship actions with broadsides, chain shot into the rig, raking fire, boarding actions and a beaten captain who may strike her colours.
• Command a fleet of up to eight vessels, with officers who level, crew who can desert, and wages owed at every quayside.
• Explore 88 world discoveries, put a party ashore, fish, salvage wrecks and carry letters between 597 named people who know one another.
• Rise through 20 captain's ranks earned by deeds — not by grinding a level counter.

If you liked

Uncharted Waters · New Horizons · Sid Meier's Pirates! · Port Royale · Patrician · Taipan! — the age-of-sail trading RPG, with the consequence left in. Death is a real threat and the sea does not care how long you have played.

Playing it

Free. No download, no install, no account required to start — it runs on a desktop, a tablet or a phone. Your voyage saves locally and to the cloud if you make an account.