Windward

Slow and incredible grindy with no content to look into. The trade commissions are so ridiculously small and the cargo space limited to one unit of traded good in the quest stack. With 10 times the profit rate it could be tolerable, not like this. Everything is as slow as molasses and there is a floaty feel to everything. It might look okay, though has no engaging game feel when you actually play it. It has the "meet the kickstarter promises" feel to it where things such as the naval battles technically are there, though they feel like something quickly made for a mobile game. The cake is hollow.

Sigh, i really liked WIndward at start and for good chunk of playtime, but… developers kinda abandoned game by that point already, so no new content and no fixes for bugs that were left. But still, it’s a neat pirate game, kinda, where you command ship and sail through maps doing quests, trading, exploring, hunting pirates and bosses. So Windward is a little open world procedurally generated naval arcade game, with a bit of rpg. You mostly develop your ship with new “gear” parts, not by actually lvling it and learning skills or assigning attribute points. There are some options regarding skills you could use, but they are quite few to choose from and generally about what kind of big cannonade you could use every few seconds. Trading and quests are viable mostly in early game or to gain faction reputation, best gear you get from powerful pirate boss ships drops. Fighting them is quite fun at first, but longer you play and higher lvl opponent you encounter more evident it becomes that those are staying the same, just getting insane amount of hp and bigger dmg, not new mechanics or interesting tactics, they just become bullet sponges. There are some bugs that are most evident in combat and unfortunately mostly left alone without fixing. As you might have noticed mmorpg and multiplayer tag - yes, it’s present, instead of your own procedurally generated world, you could join public one with other people in it, but activities are exactly same as in single player and enemies scaling is done in best Windward tradition by just making them much fatter and more damaging. Audio is nothing to write home about, don't expect pirate shanties or anything of likes, it would probably get annoying pretty fast considering how repetitive it is. Sounds are roughly sameish. Graphics are done in pretty standardy looking top down 3d manner, after looking at screenshot, you’d get sense that you’ve already seen that style somewhere and not just once. There is not much of distinctive style and neither were the looks great when it released, even less so now. Plot is not present i think, cant recall anything about it being in the game at all, though there shouldn’t be much of an issue regarding it.