Overview
- Pocketpair said Thursday the Early Access pirate survival game sold more than 500,000 copies in its first 48 hours on PC.
- SteamDB and outlet reports show peaks approaching 98,000 concurrent players, with early Steam user reviews sitting around 87–88% positive.
- Kraken Express acknowledged widespread co‑op connection troubles, citing ISP blocks and odd routing that points some backend traffic to an IP in Moscow, and it asked players to connect the team with major EU or US ISPs.
- The studio is rolling out hotfixes and investigating issues tied to peer‑to‑peer co‑op and dedicated servers, which have surfaced under the sudden load.
- Windrose reworked from the earlier PvP/MMO concept Crosswinds into a PvE co‑op survival game with ship combat, base‑building and exploration, and it is set to expand through a multi‑year Early Access with no console versions announced.