Blending traditional first and third person gameplay with a Sims-style day-to-day needs system - including food, sleep and social interaction - The Ship offers exploration, investigation, survival, stealth, intrigue and murder across beautifully crafted decking and highly-polished interactive environments.

Launched in 2006, the original game (“The Ship: Murder Party”) introduced players to The Ship set aboard a series of 1920’s cruise ships.  Lured onto the doomed vessels by the mysterious Mr X, the player is offered a very simple choice – hunt or be hunted!  Assigned a quarry who they must hunt down and kill, the player must also avoid their own hunter while maintain their personal needs such as hunger, thirst and hygiene.

The quirky blend of unique gameplay and dark humour has seen the game grow in popularity over the years and more recently become a hit with Youtubers who love to share their many, many, many untimely deaths with their subscribers.

Based on feedback from the community, we delayed launch by a week to introduce limited online multiplayer.  While this service is restricted by bandwidth constraints for the time being, we are working with Unity to resolve these issues.  In addition, we would expect dedicated server support to become available for testing within the next few weeks.

We’ve published details of the current state of the game in our launch announcement and our first weekly weather report, which highlights what we’re working on and some interesting community discussions from the past week.

The response from the community has been overwhelmingly positive and supportive and we’d like to take the opportunity to thank fans of The Ship for getting involved with the project at this early stage.The game is still in early alpha – players can follow the development of the project via our development roadmap and on the Steam Community forums.

Key points about the launch;

• The game is priced at $19.99 USD (£14.99 GBP).
• A 25% discount is available at launch if the player owns the original game on Steam.  For the next week, a further 15% discount is available (stacking to 40% if players own the original)
• There is limited online multiplayer currently available (4 players).
• LAN games are functional and support 16 players.
• We would expect dedicated server support to be released over the next few weeks.
• Arcade Mode (single player with bots) is currently in internal testing and due to move into public testing over the next week or so.
• There are 4 maps available (Atalanta, Andrea Doria, Batavier, Krassin). 
• The next batch of maps (Huronian, Rubicon, Connemara) are in the final stage of development and will be released one by one to encourage player feedback on specific maps.
• All backers of our Kickstarter campaign received 3 keys for Remasted as a thank you for their support.