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Black Sails - The Ghost Ship

Deck13 · 2015-09-17

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 17, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Best played with the lights turned off and the volume turned up, Black Sails is a creepy and mysterious point-and-click adventure game.Two survivors of a shipwreck try to survive in the raging sea. Until another ship appears. Hoping for rescue, they are calling, but nobody answers. They manage to go on board. Will this be their rescue?

0
playing now
69%
positive of 315 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

In a dark night, a ship sinks in a thunderstorm. Two survivors are lost in the endless space of the merciless ocean, when gradually they perceive a dark, mysterious sailing vessel slowly emerging from the mist. Is it abandoned? Soon after they decide to go aboard and they get the feeling that this might have been the biggest mistake of their lives… Inspired by a true story, the player experiences a journey to the deepest abyss of the human soul as she discovers the secrets of the ghost ship “Mary Celeste”, until finally she will not be able to distinguish the difference between reality and fic(Storyline via IGDB)

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  • · Top 48% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.9k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 315 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2019-02-04) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.80$0.992015-09-172021-02-152015-09-17 — best price $7.492015-10-30 — best price $6.692015-11-25 — best price $5.992015-12-15 — best price $10.972015-12-23 — best price $7.232016-01-04 — best price $9.992016-02-05 — best price $4.992016-02-29 — best price $2.722016-04-03 — best price $9.992016-04-25 — best price $11.252016-07-07 — best price $11.072016-08-22 — best price $9.992016-10-18 — best price $7.992016-11-01 — best price $7.992016-11-23 — best price $4.992016-12-05 — best price $10.552017-03-06 — best price $3.992017-04-27 — best price $2.732017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-10-26 — best price $2.992017-11-11 — best price $11.622017-12-12 — best price $9.992018-02-15 — best price $2.292018-03-26 — best price $9.992018-06-24 — best price $1.492018-07-17 — best price $7.992018-11-01 — best price $9.992018-12-06 — best price $11.332019-02-04 — best price $0.992019-07-09 — best price $9.992019-11-27 — best price $3.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-03-27 — best price $8.992020-07-13 — best price $9.992020-10-29 — best price $1.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $2.992021-02-15 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

HorrorMysteryPiratesAdventureAtmosphericSingleplayerPoint & ClickFemale Protagonist

Census log

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