The wind is real. The sea wants to sink you. The cargo won't pay for itself.

Leeway is a physics-first sailing game set in a procedurally generated age-of-sail archipelago. Every wind shift, every wave and every cannon shot is simulated. There are no canned animations, no invisible walls - just you, the breeze, and the consequences.

MERCHANT

Buy goods cheap at one island, sell them dear at another. But a fat hold sits low in the water, and the pirates know it. Use the wind, the weather and your wits to reach port before they do.

• Real sail physics: trim your main and jib to the groove, or go soft and lose ground
  
• A living economy: prices shift with supply, weather and what the harbourmaster is missing
  
• Cargo is weight: a full hold changes how she sails, how deep she sits, and when she sinks
  
• Evade, outrun, signal the navy, dump a decoy - but never fire back. Merchants don't carry guns

PIRATE

You carry guns. Board prizes to steal cargo without sinking them, because a sunken ship pays nothing. Build heat, spend gold at the black market, and don't let the revenue cutter run you down.

• Cannons that fire round shot, chain and grape - each cuts a different way
  
• Subdue, don't sink: overwhelm the prize's crew so you can board and take her cargo
  
• Five black-flag hulls from the nimble Corsair sloop to the three-masted Leviathan flagship
  
• Square-rigged ships sail like square-rigged ships: they fly off the wind and struggle to windward

LEEWAY TOGETHER (BETA)

Play both roles against each other in peer-to-peer multiplayer. The merchant runs a real campaign; the pirate hunts them down with the same economy and weather. A host-authoritative Reaving mode pits one hunter against a convoy of haulers racing to bank a shared purse before he breaks them.

THE SEA

• A procedurally placed archipelago that changes every new campaign
  
• Storm cells you can see from a distance and try to avoid - or sail straight into
  
• Day-night cycle driven by elapsed sailing time, not wall clock
  
• Rain, fog, squalls, swells, and a barometer that tells you what is coming

OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING

• Voice chat over WebRTC for crews (proximity-faded for strangers, always-on for crew)
  
• Gamepad support with remappable controls
  
• Three quality presets, so it scales down to weaker GPUs