Blocky Pirates vs Blackbeard's Wake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blocky Pirates
Embark on an action-packed adventure in a cursed world filled with pirates, skeletons, and sea monsters. Explore dangerous locations, collect treasure, and avoid deadly traps in this humorous swashbuckling game.
- Fun gameplay and style
- Explore perilous worlds
- Avoid deadly traps and hazards
- Sail the treacherous ocean
- Discover gold and treasure caves
- Astounding audio and voice over
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Shiver me timbers! Enter a cursed world filled with action, adventure and humor. Meet pirates, skeletons and monstrous sea creatures, discover gold and legendary treasure, as you avoid deadly traps and hazards in an unforgettable swashbuckling game. Travel the ocean, unlock captains and commandeer new ships. Explore dangerous beaches, Aztec jungles and mysterious caves. Batten down the hatches! FEATURES • Fun gameplay and style • Explore perilous worlds • Avoid deadly traps and hazards • Sail the treacherous ocean • Discover gold and treasure caves • Astounding audio and voice over facebook.com/fullfatgames
Blackbeard's Wake
Sail your ship to draw a trail and capture everything within the enclosed loop. Grow your ship's power and trail width as you level up, facing procedurally generated oceans and diverse enemy types. Adapt your build with upgrade choices each phase for unique voyages.
- Signature loop-capture mechanic
- Ship and trail growth with leveling
- Procedurally generated ocean world
- Multiple enemy types
- Phase-based progression with upgrades
- One-handed portrait play
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Draw a loop with your wake — and capture everything inside. Set sail as a rising pirate and unleash a power no enemy sees coming: steer your ship to leave a shimmering trail, then cross it to close a loop. Every ship, treasure chest, and island creature caught inside is yours. The bigger the loop, the bigger the haul — but leave yourself open too long and the cannons find you. THE LOOP Guide your ship with the on-screen joystick and watch your trail snake across the water. Cross your own wake to seal the loop and claim your catch. Master the timing between bold sweeps and quick escapes. GROW YOUR LEGEND Every capture earns XP. Fill the bar and your ship levels up — your vessel grows, your trail widens, and the camera pulls back to reveal a bigger ocean to plunder. Each new phase brings harder enemies and three upgrade choices to shape your run. CHOOSE YOUR BUILD With every phase change, pick from three upgrades: broader trails, faster movement, harder captures, tougher hull, and more. No two voyages play the same. AN OCEAN OF THREATS The seas are far from empty. Scout ships harry you from a distance, armored gunboats try to outlast you, and seeker enemies hunt you relentlessly. Circle them before they corner you. A WORLD REBORN EVERY RUN Every voyage generates a new ocean. Procedurally built islands rise from the water, populated with treasure and danger. The shallows hide different threats than the deep sea. Explore, adapt, survive — or sink. FEATURES • Signature loop-capture mechanic — circle enemies and objects to claim them • Ship and trail grow as you level up — feel the power compound • Procedurally generated islands and ocean world every run • Multiple enemy types: scouts, gunboats, seeking hunters • Phase-based progression with upgrade choices each level • Satisfying haptic feedback on every capture and hit • GPU-powered boat wake trail effects • One-handed portrait play — pick up and put down instantly Blackbeard's Wake contains ads between rounds and an optional one-time purchase to remove them permanently.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blackbeard's Wake at 5.0 against Blocky Pirates's 4.2. Blackbeard's Wake also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Blocky Pirates's advantage is ratings volume (122 vs 14). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Blocky Pirates sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Blackbeard's Wake sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Blackbeard's Wake holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blocky Pirates has 122 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Blocky Pirates's written reviews are positive against 100% of Blackbeard's Wake's.
Blocky Pirates ships an update every 5 months, Blackbeard's Wake every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.
| Parameter | Blocky Pirates | Blackbeard's Wake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (122 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 122 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 290 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Full Fat Productions Ltd | Blackbeard World Inc. |
Customer experience
Blocky Pirates
Blackbeard's Wake
In-app purchases
Blocky Pirates
- #John$0.99
- Emergency Spades$0.99
- Small Pack of Coins$0.99
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- #Pirates$0.99
- Lifetime Spades$1.99
- Medium Pack of Coins$1.99
- #Aztec$1.99
- Large Pack of Coins$2.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Enormous Pack of Coins$19.99
Blackbeard's Wake
- Remove Ads$1.99
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