Sail

To start off I want to say that I am giving this game a thumbs up because I genuinely like it (I've put almost 30hrs into it so far), and to support the dude that made this. Pretty sure it’s made by literally one dude. There may be a couple more people on the dev team now but it all stems from 1 person. I got the game heavily on sale for like 3 bucks. I usually don’t bother with EA games, but I have a huge boner for pirate games so 3 dollars isn’t going to be missed if I hated this. I will say 15 bucks is steep for this. Maaaaaaaaayyyyybeeee before the crossplay was removed (due to hacker/cheaters) but right now you will be by yourself 90% of the time. PC players are few and far between but I’ve run into some folks here and there. There is a quest 3 version with worse graphics but a little more populated. Okay here’s what I think: It’s clear this was inspired by Sea of Thieves, but this isn’t nearly as involved as SoT. There’s a lot of jank and a lot of bugs. Some of these will result in time wasted. But once you kinda learn what they are, they’re avoidable. Example: I was jumping around an island and got stuck between 2 rock slabs. I couldnt jump or move. Just spin around. I basically had to force quit and lost my loot. Now that I know that’s a thing, I am more careful about certain terrain. There are 3.5 ship types (There are 4 but 1 is a little raft so yeah 3.5). You can customize between cross wind sails and regular sails. You can pick between 3 sail types (regular, speed, maneuverability). Also there are 3 hull types (regular, heavy duty, light weight). Depending on your ship size, you can mount cannons and hookshots (you can shoot this to latch onto another boat's sails for boarding or onto land for getting on/off your boat easier). There’s an anchor to lower/raise, sails to lower/raise/turn, and a helm wheel of course. There are quests you can buy depending on your level. They’re all pretty generic. Follow this compass to this spot to find the thing, now go to this spot to get reward. There are a handful of different mechanics hunting down the chests which were fun but some were tricky to figure out. I actually had to ask for help in the discord for a couple of them. As you level up you get access to more expensive quests. They’re longer and the rewards increase by a lot each tier but the objective is the same. All over the map are icons of different types. The game tells you nothing about them and you’re encouraged to figure it out for yourself. There are 2 currencies: gold and star coins (looks like blue doubloons from SoT). You use gold to buy quest clues, quest skulls, health potions and ammo for weapons. You use the star coins to buy cosmetics for your pirate, your ship, 2 weapon types, pets, and instruments. The star coins you can earn for free doing the daily spin and daily quest. There’s also a quest board of basic things to do in the game that will net you a nice little starter chunk of the star coins. If you want to pay real money, you can buy star coins that way too. Side note: Pretty sure the devs are going to start rebuilding this game from scratch to make it easier to add new content without breaking and bugging out a ton of other stuff in the game. I recommend checking this out as long as you have an open mind and don’t need to be impressed within the first 5 min of playing a game. Again, the game is very rough around the edges, but like I said before I have a huge boner for pirate games so I have a soft spot for it I guess.