Relationships, obligations, trust, injuries, favors, reputations, and past choices can follow you across scenes, ships, and settlements.
BLACK KEEL GAMES PRESENTS
Fortune
& Gallows
1713–1730
The Golden Age of Piracy, rebuilt as a living world.
A reactive historical role-playing world where choices carry weight, reputations endure, knowledge is imperfect, and history continues whether or not you are watching.
The pirate age may close around you. Your character's life does not have to.
A LIVING HISTORICAL WORLD
History is fixed.
Your knowledge is not.
Ports change. News travels. People remember. Ships arrive and vanish. Institutions, economies, relationships, and historical events continue around you whether or not you are watching.
WORLD STATE · LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
Historical events, authorities, factions, commerce, weather, travel, and information create pressures that do not wait for a quest marker.
Speak naturally. Make your own plan. Take the risk. The world determines what follows instead of handing you a numbered dialogue wheel.
1713–1730
THE FULL PLAYABLE CAMPAIGN
The age changes.
Your life keeps going.
Fortune & Gallows begins in 1713 and remains playable through the end of 1730. The mid-1720s are a historical and systemic transition—not a magical wall that forces every character to retire.
1713–1724 · Opportunity and dangerA broad Atlantic world of piracy, commerce, naval service, private enterprise, law, crime, labor, politics, and survival.
1725–1730 · The Gallows YearsIf you remain a notorious active pirate, safe harbors shrink and pressure rises. If you built a lawful life, the world has no reason to hunt you simply because the calendar changed.
WHO DO YOU BECOME?
You do not have to be a pirate.
The setting is the Golden Age of Piracy. Your character is still free to build a different life inside it.
Take the pirate road.
Raid, steal, recruit, bargain, hide, build a reputation—and eventually discover what happens when the world becomes determined to suppress piracy.
Work inside the world.
Sail, trade, practice a craft, serve institutions, build property and relationships, or pursue opportunity without becoming an outlaw.
Change course.
A character may drift between legality and crime, seek pardon, change identity, move into legitimate enterprise, or discover that old choices still have consequences.
NOW STREAMING · FORTUNE & GALLOWS MUSIC
The Free & The Damned, Vol. I
13 songs · Pirate folk, shanties & cinematic ballads
The sea has found its voice. Take a voyage from the taverns of Nassau to storm-battered decks with the first full-length music collection inspired by our pirate world.
13 Original TracksEXPLORE FURTHER
Beyond the game screen.
World & Systems
The World
Living history, travel, trade, people, factions, weather, danger, and consequence.
Explore →Community & RecordsBlack Ledger
Character legacies, records, development intelligence, and the stories produced by the simulation.
Visit Ledger →The research behind the world.
Research & WorldbuildingHistorical Companion
The real people, places, institutions, ships, events, beliefs, and material culture behind the world.
Explore the Companion →CLOSED ALPHA
Preparing for the first crew.
Fortune & Gallows is in active development. Closed-alpha recruitment is paused while we strengthen and verify the game. We will announce future testing opportunities when the world is ready.