Open Ports on Your Router for The Captain Is Dead

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June 26, 2021 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

The Captain Is Dead is Thunderbox Entertainment's Turn-Based, Survival, Strategy, and Trivia/Board Game game released in 2021.

The Captain Is Dead cover art
The Captain Is Dead cover art

The Captain Is Dead includes the following styles of gameplay.

How to Port Forward The Captain Is Dead

When you are playing The Captain Is Dead you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and intermittently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to locate your Router's IP Address

The easiest way to find your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

Most people use our Network Utilities software package to forward ports. It's the easiest way to forward ports when you need them and then close them when you do not. You can also do it by hand.

The usual process for forwarding a port is:

Which Ports Does The Captain Is Dead Require

The necessary ports for The Captain Is Dead are as follows:

The Captain Is Dead - Steam

  • TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
  • UDP: 4380, 27000-27031, 27036

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and The Captain Is Dead simply follow one of these links:

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.

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