About this project
Powder Raid is a first-person pirate shooter for Android: 3D team battles, boarding fights and gold raids — pirates against the royal guard. Pick a side, name your captain and lead your crew through ships, harbours and islands. The game is in a closed test and is not on public Google Play yet — you install it through the closed-test link.
You start with four intro battles: Boarding, Golden Convoy, Fortress and Lighthouse. Lighting the lighthouse opens Raids (for the pirates) or the Hunt (for the royal guard): you pick a rival captain of the other side — another player's profile or a clearly labelled test captain — and attack their location while their crew defends under AI control in that captain's style. Got attacked? Strike back with a revenge match from your inbox. It is not real-time: nobody has to be online at the same time.
Inside: 20 3D maps (ships, the harbour, the market, the canals, a fortress, a prison, a ship graveyard, mangrove swamps, Monkey Island and more), pirate weapons (sabre, axe, pistol, dual pistols, crossbow, mortar) with ammo bought for the gold you earn, powder kegs, ship cannons, monkeys and a parrot, a captains' leaderboard for each side, friends and a Training mode on the maps you have won.
We are preparing the Google Play launch and need testers for the 14-day closed test.
What you'll do:
- Apply with the Google account email you use in Google Play — we add it to the closed test and email you the install link.
- Join the test and install the game from Google Play.
- Keep the game installed and stay opted in for the full 14 days (a Google Play requirement — please don't uninstall early).
- Open the game on different days and play a few minutes: the tutorial and the four intro battles, then Raids or the Hunt against rival captains, the Armory, Training.
- Report bugs, crashes, freezes, getting stuck in the level geometry, broken texts or translations, and anything confusing — especially the touch controls and aiming, the first-launch tutorial and performance on your device.
Details:
- Platform: Android 7.0 or newer, phone or tablet. Landscape.
- Device: this is a 3D shooter, and it adapts its graphics to your phone (Settings → GRAPHICS: AUTO / HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW; AUTO is the default). Recommended: 4 GB RAM or more and a processor like Snapdragon 680 / Helio G85 or better.
- Weaker phones are welcome too (3 GB RAM, older chips): the game switches to LOW graphics by itself. Tell us how it runs for you: smooth, playable or too slow.
- In every report about lag, stutter or long loading, please write your phone model, its RAM and the GRAPHICS setting you had.
- Time needed: a few battles on different days across the 14 days — no grinding required.
- 9 languages: EN, RU, DE, ES, FR, PT-BR, ZH-CN, JA, TR — pick yours on the very first screen.
- Free to play, no real-money purchases. Ads are optional (watch a video for a bonus).
