Pirate and Ship Games Online: Island Battles, Naval Fights and Battleships

Pirate games come in many forms: battle royales on tropical islands, naval battles between custom ships, a classic grid guessing game and even sorting puzzles full of loot. This guide covers the pirate and ship games on PlayKovo, sorted by how they play, with controls and tips for each.

Pirate battle royales

YoHoHo.io

YoHoHo.io drops you on a tropical island with rival pirates. You fight, collect loot and try to be the last one standing. You can play with the mouse (move with the cursor, click to attack) or the keyboard (WASD or arrow keys).

As in most battle royales, the start decides a lot. Collect loot at the quieter edges first and grow before you join big fights in the middle.

Plunder.io - Pirate Battle

Plunder.io - Pirate Battle is a fast pirate battle royale. You loot gold, break chests and swing your sword while a zone closes in. The mouse moves and aims, a click or Space swings, and right click or Shift dashes. Save the dash for escaping. Using it to attack often leaves you with nothing when you need to get away from the zone or a stronger player.

Ships and naval battles

Pirate Ships: Build and Fight

Pirate Ships: Build and Fight has you build a ship from cannons and crew, then fight other players online. It plays with the mouse on desktop and touch on mobile. Since the ship you build decides how you fight, try a few designs before you settle on one.

Battleships Pirates

Battleships Pirates is the classic grid game with a pirate theme. You secretly place your fleet, then take turns guessing cells on your rival's grid until one side's ships are all sunk. Click or tap to place ships and to make guesses.

Two tips for the classic game:

• Search in a pattern. If the smallest ship in the fleet is two cells long, a checkerboard pattern of guesses is enough to hit every ship at least once. Look at the fleet list before you start.
• After a hit, work along the line. Try the four neighbors, and once you have two hits in a row, continue in that direction until the ship sinks.

Idle Tycoon Build Ships

Idle Tycoon Build Ships is the peaceful option. You build parts, assemble ships, hire workers and grow a shipyard. Tap or click to speed up production. As with most idle games, spend on whatever raises income the most first.

Sailing in an open world

Talewyn Harbor is a cozy multiplayer world where sailing is one activity among many. You can also fish, farm, craft, tame horses and build a homestead with other players. WASD moves, Shift runs and right-drag looks around.

Pirate puzzles

Block Sort Pirate Treasure is a sorting puzzle: sort mixed pirate loot into stacks of one type each, across 5,000 levels. The key is to keep an empty space free for as long as you can.

Ships of other kinds

• Warbirds.io: a team battle in a voxel world where you can use planes, tanks and warships.
• HexGL: a futuristic racer with a hovering ship. Left and right arrows turn, Up accelerates and A and D are air brakes.

Quick guide

All of these are listed for desktop and mobile. More games are on the PlayKovo games page.