A boat limps into your dock with holes in the hull, filthy, low on fuel — and a customer who expects five-star service. You have a hammer, a saw, a handful of planks, and up to three friends who may or may not be helping.
Holey Ship is a chaotic co-op comedy sim about running a boat repair shop badly. Teams work through minigames to restore vessels to their former glory, racing against customers who are short on patience and entirely willing to leave a one-star review on the way out.
Sabotage Is a Feature, Not a Bug
That’s the design detail that separates this from the obvious comparisons. In most co-op chaos games, working against your team is something that happens by mistake; here it’s an available strategy with an actual cost-benefit calculation attached. The tension between “we need this five-star review” and “but it would be very funny to electrocute Dave” is the whole game.
The Job, and the Reviews
Customers arrive with a spread of problems — broken planks, dirty hulls, low fuel, and plenty more besides. You work through minigames to fix each issue, and speed matters enormously, because the star rating at the end depends on how quickly and effectively you serve them.
Building the best-reviewed repair shop on the sea is the goal. Failing to do so, loudly and at your friends’ expense, is the actual appeal.
Patch hulls, scrub decks, refuel and more through fast-paced minigames as ships pile up at the dock.
Serve customers quickly and well to become the best-reviewed boat repair shop on the sea — or don’t.
Kit out your character with new styles — a cool surfer dolphin, a mechanical penguin, and whatever else fits your workshop’s vibe.
Help your crewmates, or make their day considerably worse. The choice is entirely yours.
You Don’t Need a Full Crew
It also supports 1–4 players, so a solo run or a duo session is on the table too. For a $6.99 co-op game, being flexible about how many people you can actually gather is the difference between something you play once and something that stays installed.
Who’s Making It
There’s something fitting about a four-person studio making a four-player co-op game about a small crew trying to keep a business afloat. Whether that’s intentional or not, it suits.
Holey Ship sets sail on Steam on August 25, 2026 at $6.99, with a 10% discount during launch week.
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