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Break free from Davy Jones’ locker in this wild swashbuckling adventure where every voyage is a brutal roguelike deckbuilder! Craft the perfect deck, strategically select your ships' cargo, and master the stance system to survive challenging voyages and hunt mythical beasts.

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Our second playtest: sink or sail? | 'Below Deck' April 2025

Apr 28

Ahoy mateys,

We’re just slipping through in time for an April edition of ‘Below Deck’. What a month it has been! We ran our second public playtest and it has been amazing to see so many players truly enjoying our pre-alpha build. In this newsletter we’ll share a few cool insights and content from the playtest, and give you an idea of what’s next for Davy Jones’ Deckhand.

Some of our favorite playtest streams and videos

The Geek Cupboard

Penge from The Geek Cupboard was an gentleman and shared his first playthrough with his massive following. We were especially excited to read comments like:

“I absolutely LOVE the counter-attack/stances mechanic. I've never seen ANY game where stances made sense like this!”

DeepSpaceMatt

We were super impressed by how fast DeepSpaceMatt “clicked” with our game’s unique counter-attack/stance mechanics.

Dead3y3

Dead3y3 was back for his second (and third) live stream of the game, having taken part in our first playtest in January. It was awesome to see his response to what was a massive improvement on the earlier version.

Gameplay insights and analytics

We put together a detailed overview after the first week of playtesting which you can read on our itch devlog.

We had a total of 30 unique playtesters check it out, and saw some impressive mean playtimes, some brutal crab kills, and revealing stats about favorite cards and artefacts!

What’s next?

Our next few sprints are focused around new merchant encounters, which will offer players the opportunity to purchase cards and artefacts mid-voyage. This will give players more agency over their build, and help them to mitigate RNG by providing a greater and more curated selection of loot. Eventually players will also be able to access a workshop which will let them remove and upgrade cards, and to customise their stances by adding counter-attack modifiers like “PIERCING” and “STEADY”, and moving the NATURAL tag to a different stance card in their deck.

Tep has been developing a layout for the new merchant encounters.

We’ve also started working on new status effects, new artefacts, and new enemy systems that will allow for more varied and interesting enemy moves. There will be a lot to look forward to in our playtest 3.0!

Join the crew!

If you'd like more regular updates and to chat with the team then please join our public Discord server, we'd love to have you join our growing community. You can also follow us on social media at the links below.

Discord invite: https://t.co/sBqCnmZi9T

Previous editions of 'Below Deck' can be found on our Itch Devlog.[cass-bay-games.itch.io]

Playtester sign ups: Fill out this form to access the playtest [docs.google.com]

Until next time me hearties, yo ho!

Wishlist now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3544900/Davy_Jones_Deckhand/

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Wrapping up the Davy Jones’ Deckhand playtest 🎁 | April 2025

Apr 27

Hey crew,

It has been so exciting to share our newest build with you all. The team and I are extremely grateful for all the feedback, bug reports, gameplay clips and tavern banter so far.

If you haven’t managed to play yet, don’t worry! The build will stay live and available to you until our next playtest. After several patches, the most recent and stable build is version 0.78.12.

My sincere apologies to those who lost their precious artefacts when updating from previous versions! But hey… it’s a pirate game. We steal your booty every now and then. Yaarrr.

Below I’m going to share a few interesting stats from the playtest, but before I do, please let me remind you that we are now on Steam and you can support us by wishlisting the game today.

May your plunder be bountiful and your grog be strong,

Ben and the CBG team

🏆Congratulations to Kris for getting the first win! 🏆

We ran a competition in the Cass Bay Games Discord server. The first person to beat the playtest boss got a hand-drawn Avatar/profile picture by our character artist, Nik, in the style of the game!

Huge congrats to Kris who won the race, and on her second voyage no less!

Alright, let’s take a look at the results…

Voyage outcomes

More than 200 voyages! And your win ratio kept improving….

Cards

The top 5 cards in your winning decks: Advance, Reposition, Annihilate, Rum, Secret Plan

The top 5 cards in your losing decks: Focus, Parry Machine, Sacrificial Sweep, Advance, Double Guard

Top 10 chosen cards. The 4 cards at the end of the tutorial section were removed from the results as these are always the same 4 options and were chosen a disproportionate amount. The top ten: Advance, Parry Machine, Shadow Slash, All Power, Wet Rag, Quick Guard, Extra Max, Sloppy Joe, Follow Up, Prepare

Enemies

Your collective K/D was about 6:1

These were the most brutal enemies and killed you nearly 200 times: Massive Crab, Double Biologists, Double Khaki Pirate, Double Navy Snob, Cook and his Dish

Over the week you’ve dealt 72000 points of damage…

And murdered a lot of crabs (You monsters!)

Artefacts

Your favorite artefacts taken as cargo: Peg Leg, Lantern, Broken Glasses, Strange Trinket, Miracle Elixir

The top ten artefacts in your winning decks: Lantern, Ring of Return, Sharpening Stone, Peg Leg, Bad Knot, Broken Glasses, Broken Mirror, Compass, Scurvy Cure, Strange Trinket

Top ten most utilised artefacts: Ring of Return, Lantern, Peg Leg, Broken Glasses, Tentacle, Miracle Elixir, Broken Jar, Strange Trinket, Compass, Broken Blade

Playtime

You spent a fair few hours on the game, especially over the weekend! Thanks for enjoying our game.

Join the crew!

If you'd like more regular updates and to chat with the team then please join our public Discord server, we'd love to have you join our growing community. You can also follow us on social media at the links below.

Discord invite: https://t.co/sBqCnmZi9T

All editions of the 'Below Deck' newsletter can be found on our Itch Devlog.[cass-bay-games.itch.io]

Playtester sign ups: Fill out this form to access the playtest [docs.google.com]

Steam wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3544900/Davy_Jones_Deckhand/

Until next time me hearties, yo ho!

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Developer playthrough and live Q&A

Apr 9

Head on over to the Cass Bay Games discord server for a live developer stream. Watch us get destroyed by our own game, and ask us anything!

Friday 11th April

NZT - 8pm-10pm
BST - 9am-11am
EDT - 4am-6am

Click to join our Discord[t.co]

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