Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships

Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships is a 2018 pirate RPG that has served as a base for ongoing work by Black Mark Studio (operating under the Akella label). The developer used this game's Steam page as a hub for updates to the broader Sea Dogs series, but the news trail makes clear what the studio has been working toward and where things now stand. The most significant developer communication came on February 15, 2024 [NEWS-1], when the studio posted a direct statement about the future of the Sea Dogs series. They announced that this would be their "final push with the Storm engine" and that development is now focused on a full series relaunch using Unreal Engine. This statement effectively closes the chapter on content updates for City of Abandoned Ships specifically — it is framed as a conclusion to the Storm engine era, not a continuation of it. Leading up to that statement, the team shipped a major texture overhaul and global map update on February 7, 2024 [NEWS-2], described as "one of the biggest visual leaps the Sea Dogs series ever had." This update appears to be the "one final push" referenced in the February 15 post. Prior to that, a major content release in August 2021 brought the Sea Dogs: Legendary Edition [NEWS-7], a separate standalone product that incorporated years of DLC and new content. The developer's energy and announcements since late 2023 have been directed almost entirely toward Caribbean Legend, a new title built on a different engine that launched on February 15, 2024 [NEWS-3, NEWS-4, NEWS-6]. This is a distinct game, not a content update to City of Abandoned Ships. There are no unreleased DLC entries listed for this game, no roadmap or developer statement promising future content for City of Abandoned Ships, and no sustained post-launch update pattern targeting this specific title. The February 15, 2024 developer statement is the clearest possible signal: the Storm engine era is over, and the studio has moved on. The game reached its final state with the February 2024 texture update.