A pirate quartermaster
Don’t overlook this curious little gem of a game! Do yourself a favor and give it a try. I’ve never played anything quite like it.
As an added bonus the developer is very active and present, and has already provided several bug fixes and added improvements.
Edit 16th of October:
An earlier version of this review mentioned that the game needed some serious rebalancing, as it was very difficult to keep going for any significant amount of watches. The developer has since changed a number of things, and it is now much, much easier to progress in my experience.
– Real player with 92.0 hrs in game
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This game is truly charming.
It has got style and character and a great atmosphere (it does not struggle to create a feel-good one).
You gotta love the music, absolutely enjoyable and this goes for most everything of this game.
It also has very good achievements that are desirable but seldomly quick to get.
They let you know there is more adventure for you in this game sort of in addition to the already
solid watch to watch “routine” of being the quartermaster.
Make smart decisions (one of them is not to think “1 portion” ought to be enough when there is no better reason to skimp there other than saving a few coins when that is not crucial) and you can sail a fearsome, capable pirate ship you will mourn to ever lose. This might even entail mourning the loss of your former captain (I admit that happened to me ;-) ).
– Real player with 54.1 hrs in game
Coffin Rot Brewing Co.
I love this game. Its not very story based or long gameplay, but its really fun if you’re energetic and want to get it out in VR. It really exercises your multitasking abilities, I’m surprised people like Jacksepticeye or other famous youtubers haven’t played this yet. I spent so long just getting all the upgrades and finding secrets; There are so many fun, little secrets like finding the marks with the telescope or reading the posters. You can tell the developers worked very hard on it and it certainly paid off.
– Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
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This game is both a great introduction to VR and a challenge for those are veterans in the VR space. The game play is fun and easy to learn but by no means does it hold your hand the whole way through. The difficulty of the game is perfect since the game play is long and makes you want to become a barista or bartender. Funnily enough, I have experience in a kitchen setting and as a Starbucks barista and although learning the recipes for these drinks and foods is a different story, the fast paced working is exactly whats its like working in this field, minus the skeletons and octopus trying to steal your money :). As fast paced this game is I rarely ever felt sick or dizzy playing this as well. It was extremely comfortable the entire time. I highly recommend this game for its fun fast paced game play, variety of weapons and traps, and its funny humor. And as a plus, if you do happen to want to go into the barista business at a place like Starbucks which can get really busy, this game is an amazing way to practice the fast paced environment feeling.
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Port Royale 4
I’ve played Port Royale 2 and 3. They were good games,not great ones but they were fun to play for a while. Enter Port Royale 4. My first observation is why have trading ships at all? I played as a merchant and built farms and production centers to bring down the cost of items I sell. Unfortunately you have to sell massive quantities of them in order to keep you head above water. Unfortunately, you can’t sell enough with your fleet no matter how big it is because trading ports will only accept a specific amount of a product before your forced to sell below what it cost you to produce the items. A temporary way around this is to sell the product to the market in the town where you produced it. You can make quite a bit that way but it only serves to help you break even because your trading fleet is fundamentally useless.
– Real player with 95.2 hrs in game
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TL:DR Port Royale 4 is a fun trading game with a few caveats especially for returning players. But it is a trading game through and through, so those who find such games boring will probably not enjoy it.
Actual review (based on latest beta, it will be updated if it turns out some of these points are not true anymore)
What is Port Royale 4?
Port Royale 4 is a trading game set in the late 16th/early 17th century Caribbean.
What is it like?
If you haven’t played any Port Royale game before…
– Real player with 56.8 hrs in game
Port Royale 3
You could spend your life playing this brilliant game. Well I have - .
Just imagine being in a time where you have more control over life - no atomic bombs just cannons swords and primitive guns and your own skills.
You travel from town to town as a merchant buying and selling and if you are good at it you amass quite a lot of money.
You make a lot more when you gain experience and title then you get assignments from towns - and oh how good is that - you feel good because the town folk or government leaders talk with you and want you to marry there daughters.
– Real player with 492.9 hrs in game
Port Royale 3 is an epic story of European powers expansion to the Carribean Islands, the Southern U.S. States, Central America and the Northern town of South America. The game is entertaining and will continue to be a favorite in many years to come. Each town produces five commodities and trades 20 commodities in the market. The game offers almost everything a player wanted such as trading, town building, sea battle with pirates and trading ships of five other countries. After playing for 229 hours, I would say I like the game and would continue to play it in the future. The following will support what I said that I like the game:
– Real player with 235.8 hrs in game
Uniseas
Hi, first off I’d like to say I bought the game knowing that all of the reviews I saw for it were negative. I really like the premise of the game, and sokpop games in general, and I’d been looking for a cute pirate trading game like this. How could I resist?
Now, like another review said, the game lacks a menu, a way to save, pause, or even exit. I hesitantly overlooked this, but there’s more. The game froze a few times, causing me to have to force close it, and start all over again. Each time I had to start again, there was no way to skip the tutorial, either. Not having a menu/pause button was frustrating because, although the game is easy, sometimes I just cant dedicate my full attention to it, or I’m building new stuff on my islands and i literally cant see the rest of the map. And next thing I know, my ship is destroyed and my island got taken over. Another thing is, the tutorial itself doesn’t help you if you overlook something. I spent a lot of time figuring out why I couldn’t capture islands until I finally noticed a tiny “+” button on one of my boats. Only for my game to freeze afterwards, and yep, start over.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
great execution and a great game idea,and cool artstyle
its a shame this game didnt get updated and expanded
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game
Tropico Reloaded
One of the greatest political simulators of all time. The only thing the remakes do better is adding vehicles, tropicans have a real hard time walking the length of larger islands. Still runs excellent on modern machines.
Why is Tropico one of the greatest simulators of all time?
1. Clear factions that know what they want - people follow factions to varying degrees, factions have measurements of how you are doing based on their own criteria. Communists like housing and income equality, capitalists like industry, religious people like cathedrals and a robust clergy etc. In theory you can make all the factions happy, but if you actually manage do that, turn up your difficulty.
– Real player with 149.8 hrs in game
The original Tropico is still good, but not quite as good as the later ones. Tropico 2, on the other hand, is still the only game that lets you run a pirate island and is very much worth playing.
Tropico 1 is still quite enjoyable, but if you’ve played 3 and onwards you’ll miss the cars as it takes Tropicans forever to get anywhere on foot. This tends to cause food supply problems on large islands even with plenty of farms and wharves and markets. There’s also the same problem that’s been present in every game until Tropico 4’s Modern Times expansion of any housing with decent quality taking enormous amounts of real estate for the tiny number of people it houses. On the bright side, the excessively goofy style of the later games is absent here.
– Real player with 78.8 hrs in game
Sea Legends
Amazing. Was a big fan of this game when it just came out back in the 90s. Despite the absolutely horrible (by modern standards) graphics, the gameplay is great. REALLY needs a companion instructional guide though, on how to play :)
There is a Russian guide on the web (original game is by a Russian studio), which is fine for me, but I coudn’t find an English one. Maybe I will write one.
– Real player with 34.3 hrs in game
In my view, this is the best naval battle game ever made. If you liked “Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag” and want more ships, trading & more details to the naval battles, then this game is for you.
– Real player with 8.9 hrs in game
Winds Of Trade
So far I have played about 100 hours of this excellent game, and thought I’d give it a thumbs up with a quick reveiw because there are not many reveiws yet, and many of them refer to earlier versions.
If you’ve ever played a Port Royale or Patrician game, you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly, but there are differences, such as the fluctuating market prices, which vary much more realistically. Also, there is a stock exchange, and your decisions regarding buying and selling goods in the various ports will have a direct effect on share prices. You can make big money investing in a company, supplying it with raw materials and selling their products.
– Real player with 640.0 hrs in game
This commerce-heavy fleet game delivers what it promises. The supply chain dynamics are well balanced and the economic engine seems well tuned. The combat is boring… maybe that’s why it’s not called “Winds of Cannons”. As an economics-heavy trading game, this is quite fun.
The battles are very uninteresting, just turn based clicking to shoot cannonballs at ships (there is a very limited amount of tactical decisions to be made, ie ship position, but since its primarily a trading game, your ships probably won’t be anywhere near each other). Battles are just enough danger to justify defensive ship upgrades, but otherwise boring. I attempt to escape them whenever possible - there’s essentially no good that can come from them, just ship damage and perhaps a paltry amount of cargo. Don’t buy the game for the battles.
– Real player with 191.1 hrs in game
Aye Aye, Captain
This game needs a tutorial or something. I have no clue what to do. I moved my crew around by right clicking and then clicked the cannonball to shoot, and that’s pretty much it. I never actually won a combat because it felt like it was going to take a half hour of simply clicking one button. So I surrendered. Then on the world map I had no idea what to do but a few seconds later I was in another combat and lost my cannon. So I lose?
Then in another battle both my crew died, but I was able to surrender and sail around again until I got into combat and could do nothing.
– Real player with 0.3 hrs in game
Pixel Survivors
So, despite what the game has to offer, as well as any entertainent value it has.
There is one major issue which makes this an “ABSOLULTELY NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!!!” review.
Granted if the details I mention are changed I will gladly change my reveiw to a recommended because this IS a pretty fun game. (As long as you like games that last about as long as a single game of solitare per play)
The issue I have with this game is simple,
You can work on your game for years, have whatever grahics or machanics in it you want, you can even make it actually more entertaining than the price would lead you to think if you know what you’re doing (and no this game is not entertainment value wise worth more than $4 by a long shot) but N-O-N-E of that matters if M-O-S-T your players can’t even get the game to E-V-E-N R-U-N outside your splash screen that says who made the game in the first place.
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
Disclaimer: This game was provided by the developers and all my opinions are based in the early access stage of the game.
Pixel Survivors is a very nice strategy video game wich reminds me the classic Age of Empires, but this time in 8 bits! The idea is to grow up a little civilization on an island and avoid to let them die.
Strategy games are not my favorite ones but I like this one because it’s not so complicated like others and it’s fun.
The game has a very intuitive interface, anyone could play this game with no need of reading a lot of tutorials. In some way seems to be too basic the tutorial, but for me is just what I need, of course always could be improved. The rest? Well, it’s practise. Also has a complexity, maybe I’m not good in this kind of games but I lost the population several times and only once I could reach 10 people. I sail trying an army! I hate the winter. Kills all the chickens! So, you have to carry on the economy of the game, provide shelter and food. I suggest expanding in a foresting tower, a barn, and a chicken pen at the beginning, because you’ll need a lot of stone and wood for houses then, wheat, barley, etc. Try to focus on the economic balance, and don’t forget the medicinal herbs and.. the graves! Yes, you have zombies here, and that’s fun. The use to kill the population if you don’t have a proper army.
– Real player with 9.9 hrs in game