Dead Men Do Tell Tales

Captain Blood is a single-player character action game that looks like a relic from the PlayStation 3/Xbox 360 generation, except it launched in May 2025. It plays like a game of generations past because it was always supposed to be a game of generations past – specifically, the seventh generation of consoles. Press played this game in 2008; it was supposed to launch in the 2010s. It existed. But the game’s publisher at the time, Playlogic Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy, and like a buried treasure, Captain Blood was lost to the beachy sands of time.

That is, until publisher SNEG acquired the rights to the game and put in the work with developers Seawolf Studio and General Arcade to bring it across the finish line and finally release Captain Blood. 

“At SNEG, the appeal of Captain Blood comes from a mix of nostalgia, a sense of being part of its history, and the drive to complete the project that always deserved to see the light of day,” SNEG co-founder Oleg Klapovskiy tells me. “When the opportunity arose to bring it back, it felt like a perfect fit for what we do at SNEG: giving lost or canceled games a second chance to shine.”