Pirates Outlaws
Pirates Outlaws is a roguelite deckbuilder where the player is the captain of a pirate ship in search of fame and fortune, and must fight against Human pirates, skeletons, ghosts and monsters. The game mechanics will be very familiar to anyone who played other games in the genre such as Slay The Spire or Neoverse, although of course Pirates Outlaws has its own unique twists.
Combat Mechanics
Combat is turn based, with the player’s actions being represented by the cards drawn into their hand, and you’ll see what action each enemy intends to take on their turn. Melee attacks can only target the enemy closest to the player (unless the card says it damages all enemies) but are usually free to play. Ranged attacks can target any enemy but they cost ammo to play. Other cards can give the player armour (which can be carried forward to the next turn), restore health, apply status effects to the player or enemies, change the position of an enemy, or have other special effects.
– Real player with 78.6 hrs in game
Read More: Best Pirates Card Battler Games.
This game looks and plays like a pirate skinned Slay the Spire, and well, that is pretty accurate and not a bad thing either. It does mold and craft its own unique image in both the style and gameplay. Some of the game design choices would actually make me think it is more of an Anti-Slay-the-Spire at times as it makes deliberate design decisions to stray from the path of its inspiration.
While you can craft some pretty OP builds still, it can be a lot harder to achieve some of the broken builds of stacking poison to 999 or such - largely because the status system in this pirate game is quite different. Only one status is allowed to be active at a time. So if your enemy is poisoned, they can wipe their poison stacks clean by buffing their self with an attack increase. Because buffs can erase debuffs and vice versa. However, this goes for the player too. There is even a boss battle that will absolutely wipe the floor with you if you don’t have some kind of way to buff yourself. He will keep raising your injury (this game’s version of poison) stacks on you and they will just get higher and higher unless you wipe it with a buff. Not much different than how Slay the Spire bosses can hard counter some of your decks. But at the same time it is just different and feels unique. I wasn’t so sure about the status system at first but it grown on me quite a bit. Which I think brings me to the next major difference.
– Real player with 69.4 hrs in game
Smash Up
If you like the card game you will probaly like this game as well. It is a great “port” and the artwork is beautiful as always. I really hope the developers keep adding expansions. At the moment only the base game and awesome level 9000 are included. Please give me my sharknado!
The AI is pretty good and can be quite challenging to everyone but really experienced players. But it is of course way more fun to play other people and I hope this game grows so you can just queue up for a game.
If a developer randomly reads this I have some suggestions for UI improvements:
– Real player with 213.9 hrs in game
Read More: Best Pirates Strategy Games.
Smash Up is an excellent card game, and the digital version is fun, but imperfect. The bot AI strikes a nice balance between competence and efficiency, leading to challenging but not impossible games without the frustrating wait times for AI pondering that some other games suffer from.
The UI design prioritizes streamlined gameplay over clarity, so it takes some getting used to to understand what’s going on. It also is not a 100% bug-free game. Both of these issues are manageable, but definitely take some getting used to… don’t turn off the Proceed button, make sure to check the log if something happens you don’t understand, keep an eye on the scrolling text at the bottom of the screen, quit+save+restart+continue if a technical glitch occurs, and if all else fails, ask for help in the forums.
– Real player with 46.9 hrs in game
AHOD: All Hands on Deck!
AHOD: All Hands on Deck is a vehicle based multiplayer deckbuilder. It is a balanced blend of fast paced vehicle action and deck building strategy. Set in a dangerous pirate world arena, players must duke it out in PvP and PvE action for limited resources. Stockpile unique cards, play the market, and reveal a new way to play each time.
Vehicle Action ☑
Arena Multiplayer ☑
Deckbuilder ☑
Fame and fortune await.
Read More: Best Pirates Card Battler Games.
Pirates? Pirates!
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME
Lack of Support, Heavily Bugged, Broken, Abandoned Game
*Encountered bug at the end upon submitting the quest items to Briggs, stucked,
unable to proceed further.
No words from developer over bug report in forum for a week.
Seems abandoned.
Changed review from initial Positive to Negative.
** Unable to complete the game.
Manually reviewing and editing the save file,
switching the inventory items of the ‘tooth’ and ‘idol’ code,
allowing the Idol to appear before the Tooth to allow submission.
– Real player with 18.7 hrs in game
Well, it is a small little game to pass some time. Do not expect a mindblowing experience but rather a small game about pirates, treasures and a curse. Juggling between the needs of the ship, the crew, money and fame will force you to make some tough decisions.
You have to avoid to get too high or too low with each of these categories, as you will loose the game whenever you do. However, you will not have to start over anew, which is very good! So you can try something without loosing all the progress you made before!
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Rust Raiders
Become a robot pirate captain in this roguelike deckbuilding game and defeat the evil Captain LeCrank. Rust Raiders brings the fun of deckbuilding games and the thrill of Roguelikes in a world filled with robot pirates controlled by an evil warlord called Captain LeCrank. Forge cards to improve their power, augment your ship with gadgets and build your own Deck! Experience the unique card system crafted exclusively for Rust Raiders.
Main Mechanics
-
Build your Deck: Build your deck on the run by choosing from hundreds of cards in shops, battles, and treasure chests.
-
Forge Cards: Collect cards to forge them into stronger versions of themselves in the Deck Forge.
-
Dynamic Routes: Every time you set sail, your route will be different! You may choose your own path through forks, dangers, and treasures to reach the mighty LeCrank.
-
Augment your ship with Gadgets: Find powerful Gadgets to augment your ship and be ready for each battle. Gadgets are available throughout the world on treasure chests and as rewards from the most difficult battles. Get them if you think you’re up to it!
-
Unique Card System: Rust Raiders has a unique card system based on Captain/Crew/Ship card classes and Strategy/Attack/Mechanism card types. Create your strategies to defeat enemies and get the most out of each battle with card combos!
Endless Voyage / 无尽航线
Changed review from Thumbs Up to Thumbs Down.
2.4/5 Card battler. Fantasy with guns and bombs. This would be a pretty great game if it didn’t have language errors in the UI and didn’t have the bugs. The default language is Mandarin and it’s a wiitel complicated to get to an English UI in this game.
The Good:
-
B-to-A quality card battler
-
Pretty good graphics, cute.
-
Decent cards and mechanics
-
Value: I got this for $10 and it’s a fine game for 10 USD.
The Bad:
- The game’s tutorials are terrible. If one makes single mistake, you have to replay a dozen stupid battles. That’s not a tutorial, that’s just punishment.
– Real player with 210.1 hrs in game
These are the fun stuff:
1. The idea of building a"squad" is fun. Some combos are fun to execute.
2. Decent stage design. You always get 3 options, which gives flexibility in how you play the game.
3. Certain builds are fun.
These are the issues:
1. Once in a while resolution will be messed up and fixing it take eternity.
2. Game never updates. No new cards/characters/modes being added ever since I purchased this game.
3. Game is fun at the beginning, but once you reach higher levels, you will realize that there are only one or two playable builds. Other build will either become frustratingly bad with higher enemy HP or hard stuck on certain types of enemies.
– Real player with 105.2 hrs in game
Dead Man’s Draw
This is very close. Another game I wish I could give a neutral rating.
Its a push your luck card drawing game with each suit triggering a different mechanism and along with your traits you can combine them in to more or less devestating attacks in order to collect cards that bolster your score.
Contrary to some of the reviews Ive seen nothing to suggest that the AI is cheating, it does pull off some last minute nasty moves at times but keeping my cool I can think back to the many times I have done the same thing. How much this actually matters is debateable, if the game makes you feel like it is cheating then whether it is or it isnt, the frustration is always real. I think this will be the biggest sticking point for most people, at first it may not be quite so apparent but as things go on you will see through to the luck component of the game increasingly easily and more and more you will feel robbed by complete chance regardless of how well youve played a hand.
– Real player with 82.1 hrs in game
I really enjoyed this game, the rules are really simple to pick up, it’s fun to play, the characters are memorable and consistent in ‘who they are’ with the trait combos they use. The AI is really good and not overly cheaty, there were a couple of times I thought you wouldn’t keep drawing like that or you’d have had to have known that card was there to have carried on or to have played that card, but this didn’t happen often enough to make it a concern. It is incredibly fair the majority of the time.
– Real player with 55.0 hrs in game
Runeverse: Sea Brawls
The best designed autobattler by far. Minimal RNG that can be easily mitigated with good play, extremely good balance between the factions (every faction can truly beat every other faction) and the developers are lightning fast in taking aboard feedback and correcting any issues with the game. For anyone who likes this genre of games, this is a must play.
– Real player with 274.4 hrs in game
I love this game, i played it back when it was a beta mode in another card game they had, then decided to make it its own standalone game which is awesome. Used to be extremely buggy and barely playable. Although. as time went buy the developers would listen to their players and fix all the bugs and stabilize the game. Which made this game amazing and really fun to play. Constant updates and they love hearing suggestions and taking them to consideration.
– Real player with 156.2 hrs in game
Shadowhand: RPG Card Game
Shadowhand (Solitaire/Battle-Card)
Options include Full-screen/Borderless Window, Tutorial, Show Blood and Custom Cursor. There are 3 difficulties (Relaxed, Normal, Very Hard), and each is clearly marked as to what is different. Difficulty can be changed before each chapter if you so wish.
The Basics:
Gameplay is similar to that of Faerie or Regency Solitaire, with cards being placed one lower or one higher. The first big difference here is that there are no face cards (Jack, Queen, King, Ace). Instead the cards range from 0 to 9. Zero can go on nine, and vice-versa.
– Real player with 34.9 hrs in game
Shadowhand is a very fun and (mostly) relaxing way to spend an hour here and there. It took me around 23 hours to 100%, playing only on hardest difficulty.
I found it best to play 1-3 chapters per sitting. There are 22 chapters in total, with 8 hands each chapter after the first few tutorial-type chapters. There are also three difficulty levels that can be toggled on a per-chapter basis, with each chapter being replayable, so there is no need to create new profiles.
The base gameplay is similar to the usual solitaire titles on Steam, where you have a stock or draw deck each hand, and the objective is to basically clear the board of cards in sequential up and/or down chains, one card at a time. The card numbers range from 0-9 rather than your standard deck of cards, and there are 6 or 7 total suits.
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown
Having a narrator for a game can go so wrong …
But this game does it well! Charming narrator, music, and table-full of scenery and figures.
Excellent, excellent game if you worry about motion sickness (VR sickness). No chance of that at all.
This is not a full-body participation game. But as a game laid out in front of you to sit at and control – I find it one of the best! I forgot I was in VR, and the index controls are intuitive (close your hand to grab; open hand to let go). This is like playing a pirate-themed D&D game, moving figures, rolling dice, but it all happens beautifully and automatically in front of you. Pieces get knocked over – sometimes by other pieces taking their turn. But everything rights itself moments later. Even that part is funny and charming to watch.
– Real player with 25.7 hrs in game
Great and charming D&D tabletop RPG.
Could be compared with Demeo, as this is also 3rd person, turn based, grid movement, with cards to use on each turn… but its plenty different with ToT being clearly superior in a lot of ways, but also not without its drawbacks.
Table of Tales is a bit different, a bit more in depth story and mechanics wise…. its Narrator tells a story, and voices different characters, there is a bigger story than “big bad lives there, kill it because reasons”.
A full playthrough took me ~4hrs listening to all the dialogue (that can be advanced by pressing grip) and it has some replayeability, as there are a bunch of choices during the adventure that change the storyline.
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game