It's About Pirates Achievements: Full List of 51 Goals and How to Unlock Them

What the It's About Pirates Achievements List Covers

Most players sink their first ship long before they ever open the achievement page — which is exactly why the It's About Pirates achievements deserve a read first. The list doubles as a design document: it shows that the game expects ten captain victories, four plunder tiers, wins on named waters, and boss kills built around specific damage types. Plan around that shape and your grinding suddenly has a purpose.

It's About Pirates launched on Steam on November 6, 2026, developed and published by Elderwoof Games, and it ships with Steam Achievements alongside Steam Cloud, Steam Leaderboards, and Family Sharing. The core pitch is a top-down survivors-like at sea: bolt cannons, harpoons, mortars, and flamethrowers onto your hull, then survive escalating waves of pirates and sea monsters.

All rows above were observed on November 9, 2026. Review counts and prices are dated snapshots, not live values.

The advertised scope explains the list's shape. With 30 adventures, 10 captains, 6 factions with unique abilities, and more than 140 items, there is plenty of runway for tiered grind achievements alongside one-off challenge goals. Review volume was still thin at the snapshot date, so treat the strategy notes below as early-meta guidance rather than settled consensus.

Kill, Plunder, and Stat Achievements

These 21 goals are accumulation-based. You will earn most of them by simply playing well and surviving longer, but a few ask for deliberate habits.

A few observations from that block. Broadside V's 30,000 kills and Plunder IV's one million gold are the two longest tails in the list, and both come naturally from longer adventures rather than short farming loops. The five "max stat" achievements reward stacking one stat hard instead of spreading upgrades thin. And "Toss a Coin to your Tavernkeeper" quietly requires a healthy bank balance, since rerolling ten times in a single tavern visit is not cheap.

"Call a Sawbone, but not for me!" is the odd one: you need to finish a day sitting at exactly 10 HP. In a creator's demo playthrough, damage arrived constantly from enemies and from the edge of the arena, so the practical approach is to clear a day early and then stop taking risks.

Build, Boss, and Damage-Type Challenges

These 12 achievements reward specific loadouts rather than raw time played. Several overlap, so one carefully built run can clear three or four at once.

The boss trio is where planning pays off. The official store description names flamethrowers, harpoons, and mortars as core weapons, and in a creator's demo run the flamethrower dealt elemental damage while harpoons, crude knives, and flintlocks carried pierce — which maps neatly onto "Flamethrower to a Gunfight" and "The Kepab Strat." If you want both in a single session, keep an elemental weapon and a pierce weapon mounted at the same time and confirm which one lands the killing blow.

"Git Gud" is the strictest of the three: a full-HP boss kill means no chip damage at all, including the boundary damage a player reported when drifting outside the arena. "All outta gum" stacks naturally with "Parry this you Filty Casual" — build one enormous single hit with buffed cannons and a mortar, then hunt a boss.

"Minimalist Marauder" is easy to ruin accidentally. The same demo playthrough noted that weapons could not be sold, so every purchase was permanent for that run. If that holds in the release build, buy nothing you do not need on a five-item run.

Captains, Adventures, and Endless Mode

Ten achievements are tied one-to-one to a captain victory, matching the store page's promise of 10 distinct captains. Names below are reproduced exactly as the tracker listed them on the snapshot date.

Adventure and endurance goals round out the list:

• Must have been the Wind — win a game on Windward Waters
• Ah yes, the Poison Swamp — win a game on Murky Mangroves
• Maidenless? — win a game on Tarnished Tides
• True Pirate — complete all adventures
• Relentless Rookie — survive 15 days in endless mode
• Relentless Raider — survive 20 days in endless mode
• Relentless Ruler — survive 30 days in endless mode
• Into the Abyss — no description was listed as of the snapshot date

The three named-water wins were the only realm-specific clear achievements the tracker displayed on November 9, 2026, while the store page advertises 30 adventures. Treat that trio as a sample of the adventure spread rather than the whole set, and expect "True Pirate" to be the long-haul completion goal that carries most players past the endless milestones.

Practical Tips From Early Player Experience

Community reports from the demo build suggest a few habits that make the harder It's About Pirates achievements less painful once you commit to a cleanup run.

• Protect your crew. In a creator's playthrough, crew members could be lost when the ship took damage and restoring them cost gold — and siren enemies reportedly wiped out half the crew at once. A cheap life buoy purchase early saved far more money later.
• Bank gold before big shops. Rerolling is the fastest way to burn a run's savings, and both "Toss a Coin to your Tavernkeeper" and "Captain Fancy Pants" want deep pockets.
• Pick a damage identity. Splitting between pierce, blunt, and elemental damage made boss kills sloppy in the demo footage; the boss achievements reward concentrating on one type and confirming the killing blow.
• Watch the arena edge. The same player noted steady damage from drifting to the boundary, which is the fastest way to lose a "Git Gud" attempt before the boss even arrives.
• Plan the item count. If you are chasing "Minimalist Marauder," decide before the first shop, not after five impulsive purchases.

For the latest live data on reviews, price, and store details, check It's About Pirates on the Steam store, and compare the community-maintained list at TrueSteamAchievements' It's About Pirates page.

FAQ

How many It's About Pirates achievements are there? As of November 9, 2026, TrueSteamAchievements listed 51 achievements for the game, spanning kill counts, gold tiers, captain wins, boss challenges, adventures, and endless mode.

Can I earn the It's About Pirates achievements in any order? Mostly yes. Tiered goals like Broadside and Plunder fill in naturally, while captain, boss, and minimal-item achievements require you to build a run around them deliberately.

Which achievement looks hardest to unlock? By raw requirement, "Git Gud" (a boss kill at full HP), "Broadside V" (30,000 kills), and "Relentless Ruler" (30 days in endless mode) look like the steepest climbs, though review volume was still too small at the snapshot date to confirm real-world completion rates.

Do I need all 30 adventures for "True Pirate"? The achievement is listed as completing all adventures, and the Steam page advertises 30 of them. The tracker's snapshot only showed three realm-specific clear achievements, so plan for a long completion path rather than a short one.