Captain Blood: Pirates can apparently rise from the dead – 20-year-old game is back

Picture the scene – it’s E3 2004, new games are being announced, and the trailer for Age of Pirates: Captain Blood catches your eye. It looks like a really great game, a pirate fighting game with a sarcastic twist. You can imagine the couch co-op fun to come.

Later in the year, rumors start trickling out that Captain Blood is being delayed due to major re-development and will be a while before it’s released. Oh well, there’s no shortage of other new games to immerse yourself in, so you put your pirate hat back in the closet and wait.

More rumors are circulating and the game is apparently due to be released in 2009 – five years is a long time, of course, but it’s not unusual for video games to be released in time. You rub your hands together and get the pirate hat out of the closet again.

But the game never came out. In 2010, there was even a new trailer that gave a release date of 2011, but then the game came out.

The game was stuck in development issues and legal problems for so long that we just collectively forgot about it. If a game announced 10 years ago hasn’t come out yet, it probably never will, right?

Fast forward to June 17, 2024. Twenty full years after Age of Pirates: Captain Blood was first announced, more than a decade after it seemed like the game was dead and buried. It’s been years since anyone even thought about it. And then Seawolf Studio comes along with the re-release trailer.

It’s as if a time capsule had been dug up and inside, perfectly preserved, was a pirate game from the 2000s, complete with fourth-wall-breaking narration.

When will Captain Blood be released?

If the new trailer is to be believed – there is still some skepticism, of course – we can assume that Captain Blood will finally be released to consumers in fall 2024. We don’t have a more precise release date yet.

According to the trailer, it will also be released on all modern platforms – PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Steam.

Photo credit: Seawolf Studios/SNEG