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Governor: Free Republic

Sink pirates. Found colonies.

One frigate, a charter, and a sea full of pirates. Found settlements, raise a fleet, sink the raiders and bank their plunder, for as long as your term holds.

Out now

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For iPhone and iPad. No ads, no purchases, no accounts, nothing collected.

How it plays

You are the Governor. The Republic handed you a charter, one frigate, and a stretch of open water.

Take the sea

Drag a course, lock on a target

Tap a ship and drag its course. Tap a pirate to lock on. Idle ships engage anything that comes near, so a patrol left in the right place is worth a hundred taps later.

Hold the coast

Settle islands that suit the build

Colony ships carry settlers to empty islands. Every island has a character (fertile, forested, pastoral, quarry) and takes only the buildings that suit it.

What is out there

Thirteen classes, escalating

Pirates come wave by wave. Five named flagships sail under captains out of the history books, each carrying a bounty worth the risk, and in deep water, a kraken that hunts pirate and Republic alike.

Letters of Marque

Draft your term before you sail

Boons cost points and burdens pay for them. Take Veteran Crews and Long Guns, and answer for it with Crown Tariffs and Wanted Posters. Every run is a different bargain.

A look at it

Every ship, island and icon is pixel art, generated on the device as the game runs.

Scroll sideways for more.

The Letters of Marque screen: a list of boons such as Royal Subsidy, Long Guns and Veteran Crews with point costs, and burdens such as Wanted Posters and Crown Tariffs that pay for them, above Sail Without Charter and Set Sail buttons.
Draft your term
A captured pirate stronghold on a small island, with a panel showing port health, the next pirate timer, and the captured infrastructure: fortifications, dairy, school and blacksmith.
Take a stronghold
Open water with a Brigantine engaging, and a panel for the flagship Queen Anne's Revenge under Captain Edmund of the Reefs, bombarding a settlement.
A flagship comes for the port
A settlement panel showing port health dropping, population, income per minute and idle shipyard slots, with repair and transport options while a flagship approaches.
Repair, or lose the port
A settlement at full port health with a Republic Frigate on garrison patrol, a Republic Leviathan and fortifications building in the yard, and a row of purchasable hulls along the bottom.
Raise a fleet

What’s inside

15
Republic hulls, schooner to Leviathan
13
classes of pirate, escalating wave by wave
5
named flagships, and one kraken
A row of pixel-art Republic hulls with their prices: 24, 28, 50, 60, 95, 140 and 170 gold.
  • One player, on your device. No internet connection needed, ever.
  • Threat climbs with your treasury, your fleet and the clock. Ports are struck, captured, and taken back again.
  • Islands generate fresh every term, so no two charters look alike.
  • Autosaves every twenty seconds. Put it down mid-broadside.

Drawn in code

No art files. No sound files. The game draws and plays itself.

A pixel-art settlement: red-roofed houses and a keep on green grass, ringed by sand and sea. A pixel-art Republic ship under fire and a green pirate vessel on open water.

Every ship, island, building and icon is pixel art generated on the device at runtime, down to the app icon. So is the audio: the cannon fire, the bosun’s whistle, the sea and the shanty are synthesised as the game runs, with no sound files shipped at all.

Privacy

It doesn’t collect anything, because there’s nowhere for it to send anything.

No accountsNo internetNo ads No purchasesNo trackingNo data collected

The game has no networking code in it at all: no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no third-party SDKs. Read the full privacy policy.

Good for

Anyone who has ever looked at a map and wanted to put a fort on it.

The water does not care that you were appointed.

Get Governor: Free Republic on the App Store

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