HEARTSHOT HOLDINGS Games, made with heart.

⚓ One harbour, every game

No ads. No pay-to-win.
No nonsense.

Heartshot Holdings is the home port of two games: Cross My Heart, the 512-card pirate duelling game where you call your shot out loud and the sea decides whether you're true — and The Settle, the five-minute daily ranking game scored against everyone who played that day. Both are free in your browser. No installs, no downloads, no catch.

▶ Play Cross My Heart ⚖️ Today's Settle

⚓ The Fleet

Two games, one flag

The Red Prince, captain of Cross My Heart, at the rail of his ship at dawn

Cross My Heart

Live · Play in your browser

Call the shot. Keep the oath.

Build your deck, choose your Captain, and duel across the Lantern Coast — where calling a shot out loud is a mechanic, not a metaphor.

  • Deck-building duels. Face rival captains run by the game, or challenge a friend online, head to head.
  • The heart-shot call. Name your mark before the strike. The current answers — a true call lands, a hollow one misses.
  • 512 cards, one living world. A full card pool built on print-true rules, with the Annals — the whole lore of the Lantern Coast — inside the game.
  • Your fleet follows you. Your collection, decks, and cosmetics are saved to your account and waiting on every device.

Free to play · Sign in with Google or email · Nothing is sold for real money

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The Settle

Live · A new puzzle daily

Rank five things. Blind. No take-backs.

One puzzle a day. Five items arrive one at a time, and you commit each to a rank before you see what's coming — then the crowd settles it.

  • Blind commitment. Every item locks into ranks 1–5 the moment you place it. What comes next stays hidden.
  • Scored against today's crowd. Your result is measured against everyone who played the same puzzle today.
  • The consensus always counts. Even the day's first player is scored against the general consensus — and it stays in the final numbers all day.
  • A verdict worth sharing. From 🤝 Consensus Human to 🌋 Unhinged, with a spoiler-free result made for the group chat.

Free · No account · About five minutes

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More on the Horizon

The chart table isn't empty — new games are being drafted, tested, and argued over. When one earns its colours, it will drop anchor here.

🧭 Watch this berth.

🧭 How We Sail

The standards behind every game

Business model

No ads, ever.

Both games are free in your browser, and nothing interrupts a match or a puzzle to sell you something. No banners, no sponsored anything, no data resale on the side.

The basics stay free

Paying never unlocks the basics.

Cross My Heart's packs are earned by playing, and its Doubloons — also earned, never bought — spend on looks, not strength: avatars, titles, gilding. There is nothing in either game that takes real money.

Privacy

Your data stays yours.

An account holds your collection, your decks, and your progress — that is its whole job. Nothing is sold, and no ad trackers follow you around the harbour.

Support

A person answers.

The games are built and run by the same small crew that answers for them. When something breaks at the table, the people who hear about it are the people who can fix it.

🏴‍☠️ The House

Built by Heartshot Holdings

Heartshot Holdings is a small Wisconsin studio and the umbrella over a fleet of ventures — these games, the pirate social harbour Pirateport, and the bespoke watches of HSP Timepieces, whose crew sails from heartshotpirates.com. Everything under this flag is made by hand, in-house, and with heart.

Pirateport — its own port → HSP Timepieces & the crew →