A galleon heels over in a lightning storm off a rocky cape while a lighthouse beam sweeps the sky.

Online naval battles · Windows

Cape of Storms

Where the old charts ran out, the storms began. Raise your sails, follow the lighthouse, and fight your way around the cape that has swallowed ships for five hundred years.

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The game

A sea you share with every captain

Cape of Storms is an online naval game for Windows. Every sail on the horizon belongs to another captain or to the sea's own fleets. Take on quests, fight, gear up at the market, and turn your first small ship into a warship others recognise on sight.

One shared sea
Every captain sails the same maps on a live server. Meet in harbour, then head for open water together.
Cannon and hull
Fight pirate fleets and their admirals, and rival captains in open waters. Safe waters stay calm.
Quests
Take daily jobs and hunts from the harbour, each with its own reward.
Elite warships
Earn elite points to unlock bigger, tougher ships, then fit them with cannons, ammunition and sails.

The lighthouse on top of the cape, its beam reaching out over the storm. — The lighthouse at the end of the world, as painted for the game.

The legend

Cabo das Tormentas

Before it was the Cape of Good Hope, it was the Cape of Storms.

1488
Bartolomeu Dias leads the first European ships around the southern tip of Africa. A storm drives them past it before they ever see land. On the way home Dias sights the headland and names it Cabo das Tormentas: the Cape of Storms. His king, John II, renames it the Cape of Good Hope for the sea road to India it opens. The weather never got the message.
1500
The cape takes Dias himself. On a voyage to India, his ship goes down in a storm off the cape.
1860
A lighthouse is lit on the peak of Cape Point, 238 metres above the sea. It stands so high that cloud and fog often hide its light from the ships it was built to save.
1911–1919
In thick fog, the liner Lusitania runs onto Bellows Rock below the point. A new lighthouse is built lower down, closer to the waves, and lit in 1919.

Sailors swear a ship still beats against the wind off the cape, doomed never to round it and never to reach port. They call her the Flying Dutchman.

In Cape of Storms, the light still turns above the cliffs. For many captains its beam is the last thing they see before the rocks. For the lucky ones, it is the first sign of home.