Open alpha · v0.43.1-alpha · Free

Beyond the Horizon

A cozy pirate country city-builder.

Oloaf - an improbably lively slice of toast in a hat that's more bowler than buccaneer, with a parrot that's surely a toucan (or maybe a penguin) - and his steadfast sidekick the Acorn drift ashore on an island they're quite certain is theirs. "I bought the map, so the land is ours - that's how it works." Gather a crew of fellow berries and fruit-adjacent castaways and build a pirate paradise, in a world where even the laws of physics nap under a shady palm.

Play in your browser No install · WebGL2 Download for Linux v0.43.1-alpha · x86_64

Built in Godot 4.6 Procedural hex islands Always free

A town takes shape

Oloaf Acorn Free to play

The voyage so far

An archipelago that rewards a careful captain

Real screenshots from the open alpha. Follow Oloaf and Acorn from a single dinghy to a sprawling pirate nation - the world is hand-tuned to feel warm, readable, and quietly deep.

Chapter One · Landfall

Land that rises from the tide

On a calm tide before sunrise, our two would-be pirates paddle toward a green smudge on the water. By the time the sun crests it has become an island - grassy plateaus and forest groves climbing from a teal sea. Oloaf plants a flag with great ceremony; not everyone shares his reading of maritime law. But each procedurally generated isle is a fresh canvas, and what you make of it - with a little luck and a few treasure chests - is up to you.

A wide procedurally generated island of grassy plateaus and forest groves rising out of a teal ocean.

Chapter Two · Roots

From driftwood huts to a governor's manor

Watch a handful of driftwood huts mature into a bustling town of cottages, markets and manors. Footprints, levels, and adjacency all shape how a settlement grows - from the first tent to a stout coastal fortress.

A built-up coastal town of cottages, market and harbour at sunset in the game.

Chapter Three · Trade winds

Build at the speed of thought

The build menu keeps construction fluid and tactile. Pick a building, place it on a hex, and chain producers right over the island while the economy hums beneath your fingertips - goods flow from grove to workshop to table, and citizens' needs are met.

The in-game build menu open over a bustling colony.

Chapter Four · Beyond the fog

Objectives that pull you onward

Quest cards surface your next goal without ever breaking the calm. Complete objectives to unlock new buildings, mechanics, and stretches of sea - then point the dinghy at the horizon and do it all again on a brand-new island.

A storyline objective and quest card overlay shown during gameplay.

What you'll build

Settle, supply, and grow a pirate nation

From a single dinghy to a sprawling archipelago - every island is procedurally raised from the sea, and every cottage you place feeds a living, breathing economy.

Procedural hex islands

Every map is a fresh archipelago of hex-tile plateaus, forest groves, and shorelines - no two playthroughs settle the same land.

A living economy

Wire up production chains, route logistics, and keep your citizens' needs met. Bottlenecks ripple outward - plan your supply lines with care.

Deep building system

Upgrade cottages into manors and fortresses. Manage footprints, garden plots, and building levels as your settlements climb toward grandeur.

Fog of war & exploration

Mist clings to the edges of the unknown. Sail out, scatter the fog, and discover new isles waiting to be claimed and named.

Storms, day & night

Dynamic weather rolls across the sea - golden dawns, dusky sunsets, and sudden squalls that change how your islands feel hour to hour.

Guided storyline

Follow Oloaf and Acorn through a hand-authored campaign of objectives and unlocks - with a minimap and map overlays to keep your bearings.

Free-build & share

Kitbash your own buildings from the game's own kit of parts in a sandbox studio - then trade your creations with friends as compact share codes. Open it right from the title screen.

New in the alpha

Kitbash your own buildings - then trade them with friends

Open the Free-Build Tool straight from the title screen and step into a little sandbox island, stocked with the very same kit of parts the game builds its world from. No cost, no rules - just you and a pile of pieces. Preview it by day or moonlight, trade it with friends, then put it to the ultimate test: a pirate siege.

The studio · Free build

Stack it, snap it, stick it together

Drag frames, walls, roofs, doors, towers, cannons and banners onto the island and raise whatever you fancy. Pieces snap to the grid and stack into towers; sidings sit flush against a wall, cannons perch on the rooftops, and a running tally keeps count of the timber and iron your creation would cost. Tap T to spin a piece, hold Ctrl to place it freehand, and grab the erase cursor to tidy up.

The crew · Import & export

Swap creations across the seven seas

Proud of a build? Export it to a compact share code, drop that code to a friend online - Discord, a forum, a message, anywhere a line of text can travel - and it rebuilds on their island exactly as you left it. Prefer something human-readable? Copy it out as plain JSON instead. Paste a friend's code into Import and their creation lands in seconds.

The Free-Build export dialog showing a build copied out as a compact share code, ready to paste to a friend.

The siege · Attack simulator

Will it hold against the pirates?

Flip on the attack simulator and a ring of pirate ships closes in to bombard your build. Your own cannon blocks answer back with a real fortress's range and fire rate, sinking raiders one by one. The structure has hit points - and with crumble mode on, pieces shear off and burn away to ash as its health drains, until the whole keep comes down. Lost it? No matter: end the siege and it rebuilds, good as new, exactly as you left it.

After dark

When the lanterns come out

A living day/night cycle eases the islands into deep blues - and a hundred little warm lights wake up: cottage lanterns, roadside tiki torches, a lighthouse sweeping the bay. Some of the cosiest hours in the archipelago happen long after sundown. (Tap a scene to see it full-size.)

Lantern-light · The harbour

A waterfront that glows

Moored boats swing their lanterns over the water, cottage windows spill warm light onto the docks, and the tide catches every reflection. The same town you raised by day turns snug and golden once the stars come out - torches flickering all along the paved roads.

A tropical harbour town at night - lantern-lit boats, warm cottage windows and palm trees reflected on deep-blue water.

A guiding light · The cove

A lighthouse keeps the watch

Out on a quiet cove a lighthouse throws a warm beam across the sand, while a little dinghy drifts home by lamplight. Calm water, a dome of stars, and the soft hum of a settlement asleep - the archipelago's most peaceful postcard.

A red-and-white lighthouse glowing over a sandy cove at night, with a lantern-lit dinghy on the moonlit water.

Screenshots

Postcards from the archipelago

Forty scenes from across the seas - sunlit coves and harbours aglow at night, bustling towns and coastal battles, fair weather and storms, across four biomes and every size of isle. Hover to zoom; select any shot to view it full size.

Get it now

Two ways to set sail

Try it instantly in your browser, or grab the native Linux build for the smoothest ride. Beyond the Horizon is a playable open alpha - and it's completely free.

Play in your browser In-browser WebGL build Download for Linux v0.43.1-alpha · x86_64

The browser version runs a WebGL2 build - no install, no account. The Linux download is a single executable. All versions & platforms → - older releases archived; Windows, macOS & Android planned.

Free & playable open alpha · v0.43.1-alpha Built with Godot 3D & icon art from Kenney (CC0)