Neo ATLAS 1469

This is an exploration game set around 1469. Your job is to make valuable trade routes, while discovering the way to Zipangu (IIRC Japan). Since this is the Age of Discovery, you do have a couple ways to go… The game can quickly become addicting. Oh, and using our maps? Not wise. Outside of most of Europe and North Africa, the map is generated by exploring the unknown regions. Which can cause things like the Red Sea to be more of a lake… On that note, there is a chance while creating the map that resources and even pirates can be cut off from the rest of the ocean. This can cause some difficulties. Oh… and the world might be flat. Just saying. Highly recommend.

A Japanese gaming take on the Discovery age, you play as the boss of a Portuguese seafaring trading company, and your job is threefold: - Discover the world and fill the map - Reach (the game equivalent of) Japan - Trade with anyone & everyone you discover midway through The second is what's presented to you as the pressing objective to reach, but the first one is where the main gimmick resides, as the shape of the world is almost entirely decided by what your employed sailors perceive the world like as they navigate the waters, and certain specific actions you undertake deciding whether the world [spoiler] is round or flat [/spoiler]. The exploration is fun, but the RNG nature of it can become somewhat of a liability, like Japan suddenly becoming a landlocked country, with cities becoming innacessible due to their docks being smack-dab in the middle of an inacessible lake. The trading, while necessary to get funds to fuel the exploration, is sadly a bit too shallow & unengaging. Still, if you can get this for a decent price, it's a decent temporary timewaster, if only to see what screwy worldmap you end up with.

Remake of the Neo Atlas II, pretty interesting take on the world exploration genre since it is based on procedural generation for it's map creation. The game features light trading element, but is way more interested in finding plotlines and following them to their conclusion with a bunch of different admirals. I had a great time playing the game and the different potential events that can happen depending on the choices of plotlines you follow.

地図を埋めていくだけでも楽しいですが、個々のイベントがクリアできた時には、脳汁出ます。 1度のプレイでは謎をすべて解くことはできないので、気楽に楽しむのが良いと思います。 自分はアフリカ大陸の中央に運河を作ってショートカットを作りました。 変な遊び方ができるのが面白いです。

I played this on the Switch and loved it so I got it on my PC. As a history fan, this game is great!

10/10

from the screenshots I had high hopes for this game. I loved uncharted waters for snes. sadly the game has very little for depth. I did get through the tutorial but not much farther. Do not buy this thinking you will get an economic or trading simulator. It's more of a visual novel or a click to explore type of game. not being able to skip dialogue and ever present distracting angels that you can't hide tipped me over. I got this game on sale, even then refunded this game, wasn't what I expected.