HoD: On open seas

This game is the Freshman effort of a brand new developer. A young guy decided to make a game about what it would feel like to sail a small galleon ship through waters that a galleon should never be sailed through. The first thing you'll notice when you load up the game is the programmer art. It's obvious that the young man made the models by hand, and for some reason that does provide a bit of charm to the game. It has the look and feel of a child's representation of pirate life. While they're certainly nothing fantastic and there are a few graphics glitches here and there, the game's art serves its purpose and I'd even say it has a generally pleasing aesthetic. The controls aren't really that bad, either. There's some difficult to describe sluggishness to the controls - like you're moving a big boat, duh - and maneuvering your ship to fire the stronger side cannons at your opponents is a big part of good combat. However, as you can tell from my playtime, I was immediately bored. Immediately. The objectives of the first level were already quite plain, and I had no interest in trying to go further. I just couldn't imagine trying to play the game for a long period of time, in its current state. I didn't find anything really "wrong" with the game, as far as its mechanics, other than the entire thing could be tightened up significantly so that there weren't so many long periods of just sailing. It's not a really great game, but at the same time, it's a weird change of pace from what we're all used to in gaming, and I think that deserves some attention. Maybe at like $2.99.

It's bad, really really bad. Watch a video and you can see everything that's going on: from the controls to the response, the graphics, the level design, everything is poor. Except for the price. This costs 9 € right now. I payed much less as for a bundle and I still feel ripped off. Not good even for a laugh.

This is a bad unfinished game. The graphics are medium but the gameplay is just bad. I can recognize how the dev wanted to build the mechanics and then started thinking of a game to build around it, but kind of cheesed that part of the game and so this is the result. It's unfortunate because it looks like it could have been so much more. http://played.today/hands_on_deck.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEWQOe0lJDY

HELLO EVERYBODY ITS ME WOODLANDFAEIETRUCK HERE WITH ANOTHER BUNDLE GAME REVIEW, SO PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR DECK THEN QUICKLY REMOVE THEM BECAUSE THAT IS PERVERTED!!@@ YOU CAN WATCH THE VIDEO FOR THIS GAME AND SEE EVERYTHING YOU ARE GOING TO DO> THE PIRATES LIFE CONSISTS OF COLLECTING CANNONBALLS THAT FLOAT IN THE WATER, COLLECTING TREASURE THAT FLOATS IN THE WATER, AND FIGHTING THE SAME 2 KINDS OF SHIPS OVER AND OVER AGAIN<! IT IS REALLY BORING! I THOUGHT A PIRATES LIFE WAS FILLED WITH ADVENTURE AND GOOD TIMES AND GROG! MY PIRATE LIFE WAS FILLED WITH THRILLING EVENTS LIKE WATCHING MY SHIP GET STUCK WHENEVER I WENT TOO NEAR A SHIPWRECK. THAT HAPPENED TWICE AND I HAD TO START OVER BOTH TIMES>> FOR SOME REASON A PIRATES LIFE ALSO INVOLVES DESTROYING STATIONARY TURRETS THAT SHOOT CANNONBALLS OR FIRE! I SUPPOSE I WOULD BE OK WITH THIS EXCEPT THAT FIRE WOULD COME SHOOTING OUT FROM OFF OF THE SCREEN, DESTROYING MY SHIP BEFORE I HAD A CHANCE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON! LETS ALL GO AHEAD AND REWRITE THE HISTORY BOOKS, DEAR FRIENDS< BECAUSE APPARENTLY A PIRATES LIFE REVOLVES AROUND BOREDOM, BUGS AHOY AND CHEAP DEATHS!<< OVERALL THIS GAME GETS A THUMBS DOWN NEGATIVE 3 STAR RATING BECAUSE NO HUMAN SHOULD EVER MAKE THE MISTAKE OF PLAYING IT, LET ALONE PAYING REAL AMERICAN $$$USD FOR IT><< GOD BLESS AMEN

I really wanted to like this. but its just very bad. gameplay bad,and there is no story.

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Amazing for one reason, in that it single-handedly ruins action RPG's, pirate games, the isometric perspective, and the mouse and keyboard control scheme all at the same time.

Initially, I managed to play the first level of this game, and that was as far as I got before I received the message, "Unfortunately, this is how far you'll get for now.. However, you are now a part of something that we believe in and we won't stop until this game has reached it's full potential. We are going to release a new chapter every Sunday". I waited for a few weeks and went back to the game. I was able to get a tiny bit further on the next attempt but ran into another roadblock. I've done every quest, walked around every square foot of the game area, and I can't find anyway to continue on. I was wiling to forgive the poor controls and bad user interface, but it's extremely frustrating that the game is unfinished. Do not waste your time with this game. It has promise but not in it's current state.