A little help from the crew.

Need help with a cove, a purchase or your progress? Email us with your iPhone or iPad model, iOS version, and a short description of what happened. Include the cove number if relevant.

How do pieces move?

Tap driftwood or a ship, or swipe along its fixed arrow, to send it all the way out. A swipe in another direction is ignored. The whole route must be clear. A blocked attempt costs one life. Rescue every ship to complete the cove.

Anchors stay fixed. Iron-braced wreckage needs a cannon: clear the firing lane, then tap the cannon to break the first wreck in its path. Blocked or empty shots cost one life.

Lives and undo

You start with five lives. One life returns every 20 minutes, up to five. Each attempt has three free undos. Undoing a blocked attempt restores the life it cost. Extra undo packs, life refills and a one-time unlimited-lives purchase are optional. The whole game is ad-free.

Purchased undos and stored life refills do not expire. If a refill arrives when your lives are already full, it is stored for later.

Power-ups and achievements

A spyglass highlights a safe move. A lifebuoy protects one blocked attempt. Every three new perfect coves earn a spyglass; every five earn a lifebuoy. Replaying the same cove does not repeatedly grant these rewards. Find your achievements in the Captain’s log.

Restore a purchase

Open Map → Captain’s log & settings → Help, support & privacy → Restore purchases. Use the same Apple Account that made the purchase. Unlimited lives can be restored. Finished consumable purchases such as undo packs are not restored by Apple; unused balances are kept in your local save.

A purchase awaiting approval will arrive when Apple approves it. If a purchase is missing, reconnect to the internet and reopen the game. If it still does not appear, contact us. Apple handles refund requests at Report a Problem.

Keep your progress safe

Progress is saved on your device, with a local recovery copy. Avoid deleting the app while we investigate a problem, because that can remove local progress and consumable balances. Shipwrecked does not currently sync game progress between devices.