Blazing Sails
Early acces? It’s already insanely playable, nothing seems to be really missing and no huge bugs.
It’s a 4man team battle royale, it seems to take a lot of inspiration if not downright most of it’s stuff from sea of thieves.
The rounds are 5 - 20 minutes, divided in mostly 2 parts:
Looting and fighting.
during the looting fase you might run into other people on land, so combat ensues.
When sailing to the next island you might run into another ship, ship to ship combat ensues.
The safe area, as with every BR gets smaller and smaller, forcing ships closer and closer, these fights can turn very hectic very quickly.
– Real player with 256.5 hrs in game
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☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
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☐ Decent
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☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
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☐ Very good
☒ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
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☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☒ Good
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☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{Audience}—
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☒ Teens
☒ Adults
☐ All
—{PC Requirements}—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☒ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{Difficulity}—
☐ Just press ‘W’
– Real player with 119.5 hrs in game
Waves of Steel
TLDR main selling points:
1. A faithful Warship Gunner/ Warship Commander successor
2. Simple-to-use part-based building system, for building your own warship
3. Very easy to mod
4. Fight zany enemies
Now, the rest of the review:
I have been waiting for a VERY long time for any successor of Koei/Microcabin’s Naval Ops: Warship Gunner/ Warship Commander series. Waves of Steel is by far the closest to the original with considerable improvements to the ship design process. Of course, since this is 2021, it also supports modding.
– Real player with 112.9 hrs in game
This is a very good game in the vein of the PS2 Naval Ops series, specifically Warship Gunner 2. You design a ship, face off against overwhelming numbers of enemies, and then pick up new techs to build a newer, better ship the next time around. This allows for some experimentation, possibly adding dozens of guns to a ship or removing them all in favor of torpedoes. Additional systems can be added to improve radar range, rate of fire and the like. There’s no single “best” build even if the game gives progressively better options. Between flags, decals and paint jobs, every ship really ends up feeling like it’s yours.
– Real player with 46.9 hrs in game
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own - Pirate Open World RPG
Heads up, this review is LONG. There will be a TL;DR at the bottom.
This game is a gem, covered in a pile of shit. If you’ve read negative reviews for the game I hate to say that most of them are very much accurate. This game is very unwieldy, hard to learn, harder to master, and really doesn’t teach you anything. The closest this game has to a tutorial is essentially a few hours of being stuck on one island doing small quests to make enough money to buy a small ship. Unfortunately, this means you likely won’t know if you want to keep the game or not until after the refund period has passed.
– Real player with 663.4 hrs in game
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Very OLD Akella Pirates game player here when “dinosaurs ruled the earth”.
I basically played the entire game in Russian (no DLC) before it was released in English offline.
I recently went back and have been playing the DLCs online, and my immediate review is still valid in any case.
The game series has been around since 2000. Published by Akella, and eveloped by various studios. This is actually the SIXTH game in the series. Sea Dogs, POTC (Sea Dogs Modification, SD2, the bad disney production), Age of Pirates (AoP) , Tortuga - Two Treasures, AoP2:COAS (City of Abandoned Ships) , and POTEHO (SDTEHO). Black Mark Studios has most of the original modders and designs from the original games. SDTEHO has MANY of the same landmarks as COAS and similar quests. Personally, I am partial to COAS for many reasons, but predominantly the freedom to do whatever the hell you want very early.
– Real player with 504.8 hrs in game
Boat Crew
Boat Crew
Boat Crew is an action-packed singleplayer game that is all about leading your men to bring out the best in them in the field of battle. You’re given charge of a
PT boat, one of many, in the Pacific, and sent against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the forefront of the Pacific War.
Sometimes through bravery and sometimes through guile, you’ll take on ever stronger enemy forces and come out on top. Manage your people and your resources; beg, borrow, and steal, and equip yourself from a wide variety of tools available to bring your campaign to a victorious conclusion.
Prioritize your acquisitions, make connections, and customize your ship’s capabilities to your taste. Above all else, care for your crew; Experienced sailors are in short supply in the largest naval front in the history of mankind. Sometimes the best option is to live to fight another day.
Key Features
Crew Management: In Boat Crew, you are not the boat herself but her commander, with all the associated responsibilities and privileges. Most tasks will be delegated to your trusty crewmen, and it’s up to you to make sure they’re up to the task.
Jury-Rigged: With distances vast and ships spread thin, you’re afforded a substantial degree of autonomy. Anti-tank guns and light mortars are only some of the weapons you can add to your boat that would be considered unusual, and there is ample room for innovation. The only two rules are, make sure you are still floating, and get the job done!
Tested in Battle: Training teaches a man to keep his head down, but its experience that teaches him when he can start handing out the hurt. Crack troops are far more lethal than green recruits, and will be capable of abilities otherwise unavailable to less experienced crewmen.
Live and Teach: Beyond being good fighters, your veterans also have much to teach to their replacements. Experienced soldiers will set a baseline crew experience and will impart their lethality on any replacements given some time.
Fortunes of War: War has luck of its own, and industrialized total war is a different story entirely. Despite all caution and planning, some of your most trusted members will be lost at some point. It’s up to you and your skills as the commander to find appropriate replacements and train them in time for larger engagements.
Applied Science: Few things inspire innovation as much as war does, and sometimes you may find yourself pressed to be the first to employ a new technology in the field. Following the expansive tech tree will dramatically improve your crew’s combat prowess; just make sure to prioritize appropriately.
Grand Campaign: Fight numerous surface actions that range from night raids and coastal fire support to search and destroy. Your success in these battles will improve your clout and your crew’s experience, increasing the options available to you in future battles and providing more daring operations.
Trailer Music by Scott Buckley - ‘The Endurance’
The Viking Way
–-{Graphics}—
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{Gameplay}—
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{Audio}—
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☑ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{Audience}—
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ All
—{PC Requirements}—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{Difficulity}—
☐ Just press ‘W’
– Real player with 47.3 hrs in game
The Viking Way
The Viking Way; an ambitious project that aims to bring a Viking experience into the 3D RPG world. Upon playing I could see the amount of work being put into this project, through their slowly chipping away at every unpolished surface in the game with every update.
It’s Medieval times, when the Vikings rule the high seas and warring factions fight for new land and dominance over other factions. This is where I come into play; I am about to set off on a journey to represent the Faction Ribe and make my father proud.
*– [Real player with 27.7 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198329404521)*
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## Pirates Bay
#### About the game
Welcome to the Pirates Bay, a low poly multiplayer open-world pirate adventure filled with numerous mysteries and discoveries. Become a pirate and gather a team of friends. Go on a journey to search the treasures that are hard to get. Cross endless waters, fight with mystical creatures, and always be on the lookout, because other players are also out there trying to make a buck. All of that and even more awaits you in the world of Pirates Bay!
#### Features
* Create your unique character using the advanced character editor.
* Build your own ship or buy a ready-made one.
* Participate in sea battles with other players, huge monsters and ships of skeletons, and become a terror of the seas.
* Become a roving bandit and rob merchant ships, or be honest, as the game has levels of karma.
* Solve riddles and find treasures.
* Explore a huge open world in the golden sunlight or at night in tremendous thunderstorms.
* Sell items and earn money.
* Take part in huge missions with other players.
* Upgrade your level and unlock new types of weapons and equipment.
* Customize ships to perform different tasks.
* Make your collection of ships suitable for all occasions and use it whenever you want.
* Get drunk and go on a date with the mermaid.
* Join various events and get rare rewards.
#### Gameplay
Create your character using advanced character editor. Choose body type, skin color and facial features, replace limbs with prostheses, add scars and tattoos.
Play alone, team up with your friends or mysterious strangers in the tavern. You can assign roles, but besides that, each player chooses his own character class, with its unique features.
You can buy a ready-made ship at the shipyard or build your ship by yourself. Choose a ship class, materials; place guns and other parts of the vessel where you want. Decorate cabins, choose the shape of the bow figure and style of the ship, paint the sails and raise the flag.
The combat system contains: melee and long - ranged weapons; blocking and rolling moves. Each weapon feels different and has different stats depending on the type of weapon and ammunition. You can put a variety of skins on your weapon, ranging from a rusty pistol to a golden rifle with precious stones.
Board enemy ships, plunder merchant ships and destroy entire fleets. Set as many cannons as you can, load the cannons with anything you want, from forks and spoons to cursed cannonballs. Throw grappling hooks and get into battles.
Guide your journey by the sun and stars, they will help you unravel the mysteries. Look for treasures using maps or by solving riddles from legends. However, if you do not want to search for treasures, you can rob caravans or unite in alliances with other players for large-scale expeditions and robberies.
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## Ahoy
#### Adventure Awaits
Ahoy is an immersive first-person multiplayer action-adventure game set during the Age of Sail. Aiming to provide an authentic experience of the late 18th century Caribbean through sailing, combat, trade and social mechanics.
#### Tall-ship Sailing
Our aim is to capture an in-depth and complex sailing experience, with direct control over each sail. It will require a crew to correctly react to the changes in weather and sea-state, or maneuvering for combat encounters.
#### Naval Combat
Ahoy features all of the hallmarks of a great naval encounter. Devastating broadsides, agile sailing maneuvers, action-packed boarding actions—all that remains is the teamwork to succeed.
#### Historical authenticity
Every ship, lovingly recreated. Every interior room, rope, hoop and hinge is built on real historical artefacts, drawings and models. Ahoy provides an educational experience in addition to it’s gameplay offering. Much of the terminology and methods used will be displayed and explained to deepen the understanding of this nautical lifestyle.
#### True First Person
Our focus on immersion through environmental detail, expressive audio landscapes, and a true first-person perspective creates an incredible backdrop to explore this time in history.
#### Large-scale Multiplayer
Multiplayer battles with up to 32 players per ship create for exciting engagements. With future plans to increase the scale of conflicts, Ahoy will provide a naval experience unlike any other.
#### And Much More…
As Ahoy develops, the aim is to capture much of the experience of life in the late 18th century.
Our Development Roadmap on our website outlines our goals for now and towards future releases of Ahoy.
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## Horizon's Gate
It's a unique game, I'll give it that. Definitely a big improvement from Alvora and Voidspire. Not really my game, though. I still think Voidspire is the best of the series and Alvora is a close second.
Gameplay is the usual turn-based combat with added ship combat. Ship combat, however, you can't attack and then move, you have to move before you attack or your turns ends. This makes ship combat difficult as enemy ships will easily gang up on a single ship. Sure, make sense and you can do the same to the other ships, but it makes ships very expendable, and that's bad when even the mediocre lower-tier ships cost like 8000 per, which is a lot. You can also board other ships to try and capture/disable them(by killing all of the crew) but you have limited ### of turns do so per boarding, which personally makes no sense to me, even balancing-wise. When you board, your turn ends too, so you'll be at a disadvantage if you fail the boarding. Ship attacks hurt both ship hull and crew health.
*– [Real player with 194.7 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198037427689)*
Since I wasn’t aware there was a Character Limit to Steam Reviews, I’ve put my full thoughts overall [here.](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCrypY4IEuL3q_EJdDudUAlCdQR995hq1DJKmlWvVyw/edit?usp=sharing) Sorry if it's awkward as a result.
**Now. I'm going to preface this entire review with four things, since I find them very important to mention.**
Outside of me not exactly conforming to normal review/recommendation formats since I rarely do them. Sorry, really not good at this. Either way!
*– [Real player with 177.5 hrs in game](http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198282247405)*
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## Arcane Waters
Arcane Waters is an online pixel RPG, featuring trading, exploration and combat. On your own, or with friends, explore handcrafted sea and land maps, travel in your ship to visit remote towns to trade goods, and hunt for treasure in dangerous waters and lands filled with monsters. In the meantime, tend your farm to grow crops, buy and upgrade your fleet of ships and craft items to use or sell.
Create and customize your character and begin exploring a huge and open world full of surprises!
#### TRADE
– Whether you grow your own food, or buy it from traders, you will need to find the best price to sell and make a profit. This will mean sailing far from home to discover new continents and towns where your goods are highly sought after.
#### FIGHT
– However, if you do decide to delve into the darkest regions of the world, you are bound to end up having to fight to survive! On the high seas, fight tense real-time cannon-blasting battles against pirates and huge monsters. On land, take part in thrilling active-time fights with strange creatures to reveal hidden treasures. Whether you fight with swords or pistols, you’ll need your wits about you!
#### JOIN
– Form a team with friends and go on adventures! Explore six different biomes, each with their own unique towns, valuable goods for sale and dangerous monsters, to complete quests and help each other level up.
#### LEVEL UP
– Stay neutral to avoid being attacked by other players, or join a guild to help fight for your place in the world. Level up by completing quests, finding new locations, and utilizing your skills. Use Perk points to increase stats based on your chosen specialties, and use your hard-earned gold to buy new equipment to help you progress even faster.
#### FARM
– Starting with a humble farm, plant seeds, water them and pick your crops. Eventually you will unlock other farms to increase your yield and diversify your produce.
#### CRAFT
– Use items dropped by enemies or sold at stores to make your own weapons and armor, and either use them yourself or sell them on the public Auction for a profit!
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