About Payments

Puzzle Pirates is a game you can play for free. Many players have enjoyed the game for years without ever making a purchase.

In the game, Pirates earn Pieces of Eight, our in-game currency. Pieces of Eight are earned as you would expect for a Pirate, as reward for sailing out, pillaging ships, and taking their treasure. With Pieces of Eight (or PoE), you can purchase your own ship, buy Pirate clothes, and generally live the Pirate life. There are, however, certain limits on what you can do with your PoE if you remain a free to play player. These limits do not, however, affect the length of time you play, the amount of PoE you can earn, or how good a Pirate you can be.

You can enhance your experience of the game in one of two ways. Puzzle Pirates is divided into Oceans: the seven Oceans of Puzzle Pirates are each either subscription or doubloon Oceans.These Oceans are otherwise the same. They offer the same Puzzles and game play, etc. They are just filled with populations that chose to play the game differently.

• If you are sailing on a subscription Ocean, you may choose to subscribe with a monthly payment (either on a one time or recurring basis). Subscription allows you to play certain additional Puzzles, become a ship's captain and enjoy certain other advanced features of the game. Subscription gets you all of the additional features in the game for one price.
• If you are sailing on a doubloon Ocean, you may purchase doubloons. Doubloons can be used to buy just those additional parts of the game that you wish to play. As an example, you can use doubloons to buy a captain's badge, making you eligible to captain a ship. But you may not wish to buy a labor badge, something you would need to work at one of the many shoppes making products in the game. Using doubloons involves buying the things you'd like from a menu of choices.

When you start playing Puzzle Pirates, you will randomly join either a subscription Ocean (of which there are two) or a doubloon Ocean (of which there are five). If you decide you enjoy Puzzle Pirates, you are free to start a new account on any Ocean you choose. See which one you enjoy the most!

If you do decide to purchase a subscription or doubloons, you can do so by logging on to your account here.

If you are a parent and would like to understand how you and your family can enjoy Puzzle Pirates together, we have gathered some information about this here.

If you'd like to learn more about the different payment options we have available, you can check those out here.