Loot Hunter

I played the bulk of the game somewhere after 2015, i basically reached the end-point of the progression. But recently i decided to get the rest of the achievements and i've finished that now. This is basically a casual simple version of Pirates! where the stupid dances and fighting rhythm-games are replaced with a tile-matching game. It's fun in the beginning, when you get new loot and are progressing towards the bigger ships. But pretty soon you hit the endgame where you have nowhere to grow and the best way to fight is to build your setup around spamming action points attack, ignoring the match-three entirely. The game is endless and you can neither look for your missing relatives nor hit the retire button. That's why i haven't wrote about it at the time — i didn't feel the catharsis. The only thing was left to do is to grind the very grindy achievements and i got bored. Most of them are manageable. The acquisition of land through monotone questing can take some time. But collecting the RNG-dropped treasure maps will take longer than anything before that combined. I was at 50 out of 100 when i finished everything else, even getting the land, and people on the Steam forums report about the same milestones. And speaking about the RNG, until the very end i was still sometimes getting new artefacts. They could've been useful in the early game, but not when i've spent about 4/5 of the playtime just grinding for the achievement. It's fun for a casual short play. It is really not that different from the both versions of Pirates! but the lack of any conclusion, even a retirement button can left a portion of the players unsatisfied.