The world of pirates has always been an exciting subject for literature and movies. Whether commanding legendary ships, hunting for treasure, or battling mythical sea creatures, there are also games to suit every pirate's fantasy. Dive into this comprehensive list of the best pirate games for Android and iOS available today. 10 Best Pirate-themed Video Games for Android, iOS Pirate Raid - Caribbean Battle Pirate Raid - Caribbean Battle by SayGames Ltd is a free-to-play casual pirate simulator released in December 2021. The game offers fast-paced ship battles, treasure hunting, and sea monster encounters across the Caribbean. Players upgrade their pirate ships, expand their island hideout, and complete side missions. It has a 4.2-star rating on Google Play (5M+ downloads) and 4.4 stars on the App Store. The game requires Android 8.0+ or iOS 13.0+, with in-app purchases ranging from BDT 100 to 11,000. Download sizes are 129 MB (Android) and 319.5 MB (iOS). Read more: Top 10 July 2024 Video Game Releases: Exciting New Titles for Every Gamer The Pirate Plague of the Dead The Pirate: Plague of the Dead, developed by Home Net Games, is a free-to-play sandbox pirate adventure. This game was released on July 31, 2017. The game immerses players in the open-world Caribbean, featuring dynamic weather, day-night cycles, and realistic physics. Players command ships, expand fleets, and explore or conquer the seas. It requires Android 5.1+ (68 MB) or iOS 12.0+ (144.3 MB) to play. Rated 4.4 stars on both Google Play (10M+ downloads) and the App Store, it includes in-app purchases ranging from BDT 80 to 700. The game lets you command historical pirate captains and even summon the Kraken! The Pirate Caribbean Hunt The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt game has been developed by Home Net Games. It is a free-to-play pirate simulation game released on January 3, 2016. It offers players a rich, story-driven experience in the Caribbean, featuring over 20 ship classes, realistic sailing physics, and extensive ship upgrades. Read more: PUBG Mobile World Cup 2024: Schedule, Teams, Prize Pool and More The game is available on Android 5.1+ (70 MB) and iOS 12.0+ (166.1 MB), boasting a 4.3-star rating on Google Play (10M+ downloads) and a 4.5-star rating on the App Store. Players can engage in multiplayer PvP and PvE modes, control multiple ships, and experience historical events in a vast open world. In-app purchases range from BDT 80 to 800. Tempest: Pirate RPG Premium Tempest: Pirate RPG Premium, developed by HeroCraft Ltd., is a paid adventure RPG released on April 18, 2017. The game immerses players in an open-world pirate experience featuring naval warfare, trading, and battling legendary sea monsters. Available on Android 5.0+ (325 MB) and iOS 13.0+ (445.1 MB), it has a 4.7-star rating on the App Store (9.2K ratings) and a 4.6-star rating on Google Play. Players can explore endless seas, complete over a hundred quests, upgrade ships, and engage in multiplayer battles. In-app purchases range from BDT 80 to 1,000. Read more: Best T20 Cricket Games for Android, and iOS in 2024 Sea of Souls Sea of Souls, developed by Landmark Games Ltd., is a free-to-play co-op adventure game released on August 10, 2022. In this action-packed game, players command an army of pirate captains, battle Lord Kraken's navy, and explore the mythical Sea of Souls. The game features stunning graphics, fast-paced multiplayer action, and an ever-evolving world. With a download size of 162 MB on Android (requires 7.1+) and 245.1 MB on iOS (requires 12.0+), it has earned a 4.6-star rating on both Google Play and the App Store. The game includes in-app purchases and interactive elements, such as in-game purchases and user interactions. Read more: Esports World Cup 2024: List of Games, Format, Schedule, and Prizes

A pirate was killed allegedly in a gunfight with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Patharghata upazila of Barguna early Friday. However, the identity of the deceased could nott be known immediately. Read: 2 ‘robbers’ killed in Bhola ‘gunfight’ According to Rab-8 sources a team of Rab-8 took position on the bank of Bishkhali river at Badurtola area around 2 am. Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the pirates opened fire at the Rab members forcing them to fire back that triggered a gunfight. After the gunfight, Rab found a pirate lying on the ground with bullet wounds. Read:Cumilla councillor's murder: Prime accused killed in ‘gunfight’ On information, police rushed to the spot and sent the pirate to the Patharghata Upazila Health Complex where the doctor declared him dead, said Abul Bashar, officer-in-charge of Patharghata Police Station.

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday night arrested three people, including the prime accused, in connection with the killing of former pirate Alauddin of Moheshkhali. The arrestees have been identified as Rafikul Islam Prakash Mamun (28), the prime accused, Md Rifat (23) and Ayub Ali (40). A RAB-15 team arrested Mamun and Rifat around 7pm during a raid in the Faitong area under Lama police station limits in Bandarban, following a tip-off. Also read: Pirate ringleader held in Khulna Alauddin was nabbed later from the Pahartali area of Cox’s Bazar, after Mamun gave information about his whereabouts during interrogation, according to RAB. On November 5, around 8pm some assailants killed Alauddin, 26, the former pirate, in the Chamiraghona Kalur bridge area of Kalamar Chara union in Cox’s Bazar. Also read: ‘Pirate’ killed in Bhola ‘gunfight’ The next day, Alauddin’s brother Sumon Uddin filed a complaint at the Moheshkhali police station. Followed by the complaint, police filed a murder case under penal code 302/34. RAB members claimed to have recovered the guns used in the crime. "Efforts are on to arrest the other accused," an officer said.

A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet’s oldest cold cases. The villain in this tale: a murderous English pirate who became the world’s most-wanted criminal after plundering a ship carrying Muslim pilgrims home to India from Mecca, then eluded capture by posing as a slave trader. “It’s a new history of a nearly perfect crime,” said Jim Bailey, an amateur historian and metal detectorist who found the first intact 17th-century Arabian coin in a meadow in Middletown. That ancient pocket change — among the oldest ever found in North America — could explain how pirate Capt. Henry Every vanished into the wind. Also read: Ancient Greek god's bust found during sewage work On Sept. 7, 1695, the pirate ship Fancy, commanded by Every, ambushed and captured the Ganj-i-Sawai, a royal vessel owned by Indian emperor Aurangzeb, then one of the world’s most powerful men. Aboard were not only the worshipers returning from their pilgrimage, but tens of millions of dollars’ worth of gold and silver. What followed was one of the most lucrative and heinous robberies of all time. Historical accounts say his band tortured and killed the men aboard the Indian ship and raped the women before escaping to the Bahamas, a haven for pirates. But word quickly spread of their crimes, and English King William III — under enormous pressure from a scandalized India and the East India Company trading giant — put a large bounty on their heads. “If you Google ‘first worldwide manhunt,’ it comes up as Every,” Bailey said. “Everybody was looking for these guys.” Until now, historians only knew that Every eventually sailed to Ireland in 1696, where the trail went cold. But Bailey says the coins he and others have found are evidence the notorious pirate first made his way to the American colonies, where he and his crew used the plunder for day-to-day expenses while on the run. The first complete coin surfaced in 2014 at Sweet Berry Farm in Middletown, a spot that had piqued Bailey’s curiosity two years earlier after he found old colonial coins, an 18th-century shoe buckle and some musket balls. Waving a metal detector over the soil, he got a signal, dug down and hit literal paydirt: a darkened, dime-sized silver coin he initially assumed was either Spanish or money minted by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Peering closer, the Arabic text on the coin got his pulse racing. “I thought, ‘Oh my God,’” he said. Research confirmed the exotic coin was minted in 1693 in Yemen. That immediately raised questions, Bailey said, since there’s no evidence that American colonists struggling to eke out a living in the New World traveled to anywhere in the Middle East to trade until decades later. Also read: Stunning ancient Australian rock art shows local images over ... Since then, other detectorists have unearthed 15 additional Arabian coins from the same era — 10 in Massachusetts, three in Rhode Island and two in Connecticut. Another was found in North Carolina, where records show some of Every’s men first came ashore. “It seems like some of his crew were able to settle in New England and integrate,” said Sarah Sportman, state archaeologist for Connecticut, where one of the coins was found in 2018 at the ongoing excavation of a 17th-century farm site. “It was almost like a money-laundering scheme,” she said. Although it sounds unthinkable now, Everyone was able to hide in plain sight by posing as a slave trader — an emerging profession in 1690s New England. On his way to the Bahamas, he even stopped at the French island of Reunion to get some Black captives so he’d look the part, Bailey said. Obscure records show a ship called the Sea Flower, used by the pirates after they ditched the Fancy, sailed along the Eastern seaboard. It arrived with nearly four dozen slaves in 1696 in Newport, Rhode Island, which became a major hub of the North American slave trade in the 18th century. “There’s extensive primary source documentation to show the American colonies were bases of operation for pirates,” said Bailey, 53, who holds a degree in anthropology from the University of Rhode Island and worked as an archaeological assistant on explorations of the Wydah Gally pirate ship wreck off Cape Cod in the late 1980s. Bailey, whose day job is analyzing security at the state’s prison complex, has published his findings in a research journal of the American Numismatic Society, an organization devoted to the study of coins and medals. Archaeologists and historians familiar with but not involved in Bailey’s work say they’re intrigued, and believe it’s shedding new light on one of the world’s most enduring criminal mysteries. “Jim’s research is impeccable,” said Kevin McBride, a professor of archaeology at the University of Connecticut. “It’s cool stuff. It’s really a pretty interesting story.” Mark Hanna, an associate professor of history at the University of California-San Diego and an expert in piracy in early America, said that when he first saw photos of Bailey’s coin, “I lost my mind.” “Finding those coins, for me, was a huge thing,” said Hanna, author of the 2015 book, “Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire.” “The story of Capt. Every is one of global significance. This material object — this little thing — can help me explain that.” Every’s exploits have inspired a 2020 book by Steven Johnson, “Enemy of All Mankind;” PlayStation’s popular “Uncharted” series of video games; and a Sony Pictures movie version of “Uncharted” starring Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas that’s slated for release early in 2022. Bailey, who keeps his most valuable finds not at his home but in a safe deposit box, says he’ll keep digging. “For me, it’s always been about the thrill of the hunt, not about the money,” he said. “The only thing better than finding these objects is the long-lost stories behind them.”