Captain Blood (1C Entertainment)

Captain Blood is a pirate-themed attempt at the God of War template.

The game was originally planned for Xbox and progressed to the Xbox 360 and Unreal Engine 3 before being cancelled in the early 2010s. In 2021, builds from 2004, 2005, and 2010 surfaced online, providing a fascinating glimpse of what could have been... and then in 2025, a former member of the original development team assembled the resources to drag the game out of its tomb for a long-overdue finished(-ish) release on PC.

To do: This page currently mostly covers the 2010 prototype. Give the final game a once-over.

To do: 2004 and 2005 builds. Debug keys option present in Documents\My Games\captain blood\engine.ini The xlive console command describes fifty achievements, many of which are mentioned on the old SteamDB page. These do not appear nor are mentioned in regular gameplay.

Multiplayer#

The 2010 build only features a singleplayer mode. There is no multiplayer option that can be chosen. However, there are references to a multiplayer mode within the game's files. There are five multiplayer arenas and five multiplayer menu screens referenced in resource\missions. Attempting to swap files to load these maps will softlock the game. Attempting to load a menu screen will result in nothing happening.

The maps are named:

• multiplayer_arena1
• multiplayer_arena2
• multiplayer_arena3
• multiplayer_arena4
• multiplayer_arena5

There are also loading screens located in the resource directory intended for these maps.

multiplayer_arena1.jpg	multiplayer_arena2.jpg	multiplayer_arena3.jpg	multiplayer_arena4.jpg	multiplayer_arena5.jpg

The menu screens are named:

• menumultiplayer
• menumultiplayerpause
• menumultiplayerpause2
• menumultiplayerpause3
• menumultiplayerpause4

Survival Mode#

Found in resource\missions are files referring to what seems to be some sort of survival mode. It is unknown if these can be loaded.

• survival
• survival3

References#