Pirates - Digital Strategy Game

This game is way more strategical than I thought! Which is cool. Yes, there is dice rolling (in shooting and some abilities) but first you have to manoeuvre and position your fleet so that your ships get a chance to shoot. And because of the nifty 1 action per turn mechanic -which means either shoot or move- outmanoeuvering your enemies is important. However, this changes as soon as you get a captain (you can load crew members on your ships, granting new abilities) because a captain lets his or her ship move and shoot on the same turn. But it's not all about shooting cannons and sinking ships. If you're rubbish at shooting (like I am), it may be better to go for the 'economic' victory condition, that is you have to bring back a certain amount of treasure to your home island. By default you win the game when you either sink all enemy ships or gather enough treasure, but the host can change that in the game settings, as well as the amount of treasure and the sice of player fleets. By the way, Treasure on your home island is safe but if another player sinks one of your ships with treasure on board, they get half of it! As of this writing, the game is very early access so the number of different ships, crew, nationalities and abilities is still somewhat limited (but the UI hints on more sets of ships/crew to come). Some further tweaking of the UI and tooltips would also be nice. So I'm hoping for more content in the future and will update this review when this happens. For now it's a good looking (ship models look cool) multiplayer pirate game with a board game feel and lots of strategy and some dice rolling that also scales well with different player counts.

Ill keep checking if anyone is on for a few days and then refund if not and mention its dead.

I really liked the concept of PCSG, and this game is a close recreation of that. Sure, it has kinks to work out and a lot of QoL improvements needed, but considering it's being made by a single dev in their spare time (as far as I can tell) as a tribute to the original, it is an amazing piece of work.

It was cool kind of playing PCSG once again but glitches with earning in game currency combined with no online player base has resulted in a slog that is simply not worth it. If the dev would make their game at least work properly so we can unlock stuff, that would be nice.

A good recreation of the original tabletop version. Even still in development, its quite fun

fun game

Quite Cool, Very Swag

ARRRRGH!! Very nostalgic! I've been collecting the game for ages so when I saw this announced on the Pirates of the Spanish Main reddit, I was excited! With the recent sale and update, I decided to pull the trigger and try this game out with a friend. With the recent addition of bots, games were quite tense and competitive! We spent a lot of time positioning our ships in an outright duel to the death. On the other hand, this game is Early Access, so there were a couple of bugs we were encountering. Roughly 1 in 5 games weren't dropping rewards, or we would purchase a chest but the transaction wouldn't go through and we would need to reboot and try again. Definitely rough around the edges, but still a gem nonetheless. I can't wait to see future updates and additional sets added. Very curious to see how that would affect chests. Would we be able to buy chests for specific sets? Or would chests pull from the entire pool of available pieces? The latter would make collecting all the game pieces much more difficult. I do have a couple suggestions, but I will be posting those in the Discord channel. Overall, I very much recommend this game, especially when it is on sale! Development is a team of one and he/she deserves a reward for their efforts!

man I really want to play this.....