Quick, no-nonsense heads up: you have until April 24 to grab Shipped — a chaotic, Overwhelmingly Positive 8-player naval party game on Steam — completely free of charge. No tricks, no subscriptions you need to keep paying for, just a free Steam key that stays in your library forever. But the clock is ticking and the keys are limited, so here’s everything you need to know.
How to Claim Shipped for Free
This giveaway is running through Fanatical, the officially licensed Steam key marketplace — not through Steam’s own Free-to-Keep promotion. That distinction matters because it comes with a hard cap: 50,000 keys total. Once those are gone, the deal is gone, regardless of whether April 24 has arrived. The window could close early if demand is high, so sooner is better.
Here’s the exact process to claim your free key:
Log into Fanatical, or create an account if you don’t have one. Link a valid Steam account to it — valid meaning your Steam account has spent at least $5 at some point. Subscribe to the Fanatical newsletter. Navigate to the Shipped Giveaway page. Add it to your cart and check out. Redeem the key in Steam, download, and you’re done.
One key per Fanatical account. That’s the limit. And again — 50,000 keys is a lot, but it’s not infinite, so don’t put this off and assume it’ll still be available later tonight.
What Is Shipped?
Shipped is a 2019 indie naval party game developed by Majorariatto that has quietly built one of the best review scores you’ll find in the party game genre on Steam: 96% positive from over 550 reviews, landing it firmly in Overwhelmingly Positive territory. For context, that places it as the second-best naval game on Steam by user score, sitting right behind the beloved Return of the Obra Dinn. Not bad company to keep.
The concept is brilliantly simple: up to eight players pilot small ships through arena-style maps, trying to outlast everyone else. You can accelerate — but you cannot brake. The moment your ship drifts off-screen or smashes into land, you explode. That’s it. That one mechanic — momentum-based movement with no ability to stop — is responsible for more screaming at friends and controllers than you might expect from a $10 indie game.
Combat adds another layer on top of the movement chaos. You pick up ammunition from crates scattered around each map, and your cannon can be used offensively to damage opponents or defensively to deflect incoming shots and push rivals off course. The skill ceiling comes from reading the movement patterns on a chaotic screen full of eight ships bouncing around, anticipating where someone is going, and landing shots while not accidentally driving yourself into a wall. It sounds simple. It is, at first. Then it gets embarrassingly hard.
Four game modes are included, covering different ways to compete and survive across the arenas. There’s also a solo Arcade Mode with 50 time-trial challenges if you want to practice without subjecting your friends to your learning curve — or if you just want something to sink solo time into. The whole package works with Steam Remote Play Together as well, meaning you don’t actually need everyone physically in the same room. You just need one person to own it, fire up Remote Play, and your friends can join from anywhere for free. That feature alone significantly bumps the value of this giveaway — grab it once, play it with anyone on your Steam friends list.
Why It’s Worth Grabbing Even If You’re Not Sure
At $10, Shipped is already one of those games you buy on impulse and end up playing for an evening you didn’t plan. At free, the math is even easier. The Steam reviews paint a pretty consistent picture: easy to pick up, genuinely fun in short bursts, chaos that rewards people who actually learn the momentum system, and the kind of game that works at any gathering where at least two people are present.
It’s also Steam Deck verified, runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and supports up to 8 players locally or via Remote Play. The accessibility floor here is as low as it gets. You don’t need a top-end PC. You don’t need everyone to buy a copy. You just need someone in the group to have claimed their key before April 24 — ideally you, reading this right now.
Reviews frequently mention how this is the kind of game that gets pulled up at the end of a gaming session when everyone needs something to play together that doesn’t require a tutorial or fifteen minutes of setup. One Steam reviewer apparently clocked 62 hours in it. That’s not a typo. Another noted the slippery controls take a moment to click, but once they do, it all makes sense — which is honestly the sign of a well-designed game. Frustration that turns into mastery is the foundation of every great party game.
The giveaway expires April 24. Fifty thousand keys. You know what to do.
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