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
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Merchants of the Caribbean
Very enjoyable though some levels were very challenging. It’s like many point and click time management games, but requires a lot more strategy, which was a really nice change of pace!
– Real player with 19.7 hrs in game
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Fun little time management game with mini games. You go to each island and gather resources and disable totems with objectives to complete and all in a time limit.
Then the mini games : one is you on ship and pirate ship has come and you have to shoot cannons and repair ship at same time, if pirate damage bar goes to zero - you win, if you run out of energy - pirates win (you get energy from repairing the holes the pirate ship makes - but you do run out of repair materials at some point) and at same time the pirate ship throws ropes with anchors on your ship and little men with bombs walk over. if that bomb goes off on your ship , you lose.
– Real player with 12.7 hrs in game
The Chaser’s Voyage
You have only one hundred days. One hundred days to pay off your debt to a dreaded pirate lord. Luckily, you have friends, and one of those friends has a spaceship… and an idea: transport people from planet to planet! Seems simple, but this part of the galaxy is riddled with endless dangers. Paying back your debt will be one thing, surviving this voyage will be another.
You are the Captain:
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Take-off on your rogue-like adventure with a fully-voice acted crew of eccentric and diverse characters.
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Take command of the Chaser and pilot it through treacherous terrain, while escaping from deadly space pirates and relentless bounty hunters!
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Manage power between the Chaser’s weapons, shields, engines, and auxiliary systems.
Pay Back Your Debt:
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Earn money by transporting clients across the sector.
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Survive multiple encounters as you travel to your client’s destination.
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Each encounter is randomly generated based on how many days you’ve survived, who your client is, and which territory you’re in.
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Make enough money in 100 days to avoid the wrath of a notorious pirate lord!
Fly Through a Small Part of a Larger Galaxy:
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Uncover tons of lore by unlocking entries in your crew journal. (Release TBD)
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Explore your crew’s backstory and learn about the galaxy through their eyes.(Release TBD)
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Learn about over 250 planets, along with the species that inhabit them, such as the Pajus, the Ka’koi, the Feaians, and more! (Release TBD)
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Witness an escalating galactic war, as two major powers fight for control of the sector.
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Use this knowledge to plan out your trips to ensure successful missions.
Additional Features:
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Enjoy the game in three modes that shape your experience.
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Fly casual in Voyager Mode. In this mode, you have unlimited respawns and plenty of options to control the game’s difficulty.
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Survive in Captain Mode. As time goes on, your adventure gets more and more challenging. You only have one life, so make it count.
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Prove you’re the best in Ace Mode. Encounter any of the hardest challenges in the game, right from the beginning, while also taking increased damage.
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Enjoy an epic soundtrack.
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Customize the ship’s colors and the metal UI color.
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Practice your skills by recreating any scenario in the Flight Simulator. (Release TBD)
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Equip over 20 insignias that change the way you experience the game. Fly as a member of a variety of different factions, take on new challenges, or even change the Chaser’s capabilities!
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Keep track of your records for each insignia across each mode.
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Maggie’s Movies - Second Shot
Life in Hollywood isn’t easy
Become a movie director and help Maggie survive her second shot at fame, as she directs her first feature-length drama.
Your favorite director is back in the time management game Maggie’s Movies – Second Shot! After the box office success of her indie movie, Maggie is going big, now directing a feature film, Immense Darkness.
As the production starts, Maggie fully understands that in Hollywood, you’re only as good as your last movie, and her failure could drown her benefactor’s production company. When she calls for the help of a famous but troublesome director, she didn’t expect the problems it would cause. To make matters worse, her father is busy taking photographs in the most dangerous, war-torn areas of the world. Can Maggie juggle everything that’s going on and reconnect with her father, while battling her own demons?
Help Maggie direct the movie!
Direct actors, assist the crew, keep an eye on every detail on the set, and make an award-winning movie!
Key Features:
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Learn the ins-and-outs of making a blockbuster movie
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Put your time management skills to the test
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Discover gorgeous tropical locations
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Hold the crew together and finish the movie
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Master 60 story levels and an extra 18 challenge levels
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Upgrade the movie sets with new equipment
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7 movie-themed mini games will make you feel like you’re directing a movie!
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Fall in love with a dramatic story, both on and off set
With your help, she might make it!
Coin Treasures
A really novel idle idea!
I have already put some hours into it and am looking forward to seeing how the game goes.
The developers are very nice and this game definitely needs to be seen by the eyes more idler junkies!
The game can seem too easy at times then the next moment Thor’s hammer takes away all your stuff!
You can sit there and spend all your coins and try to maneuver the items the best you can, but when you come back
it’s always going to look like a crazy mess haha. It will start slow of course, but gradually you can drop more coins faster
– Real player with 198.5 hrs in game
This is a neat more visual take on relatively simple incremental mechanics… and it kinda works.
TLDR: The game has some issues, but I find myself still playing it after 5hours+, and still enjoying it.
Don’t expect this to be an incremental with tens of new mechanics to unlock over 100+ hours, it is a much more condensed experience. And if you enjoy more visually appealing incrementals, then it’s definitely worth a try - although the current price might be a tad high compared to other games in the genre based on content alone, I found it more than worth it - and especially if the dev sorts out some of the below issues it’ll definitely be justified.
– Real player with 13.4 hrs in game
Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption
I can’t recommend Hero-U and I hate that I can’t. Quest For Glory 1, the VGA remake is a staple of my childhood and it is unavoidable that I’d compare the 2 games. One of the key pieces of Quest For Glory, that my young mind loved, was that unlike a standard RPG where your character just grew - QFG made you think about how to practice and improve the various skills you would need and how to fit that into your journey so that you succeeded in later goals. In fact, it did this much better in my eyes than games such as Skyrim did years later.
– Real player with 216.6 hrs in game
Harry Potter meets The Sims and that is a really good thing!
You play a student named Shawn O’Connor in a class for Rogues at a magical university called Hero-U. Taking place on a magic parallel Earth, you have one semester to battle through exams, plotting classmates, private wagers and competition, unlocking secret passages throughout the castle, exploration in the catacombs, and battling and or negotiating with monsters from rats to wraiths. This game is $35 on Steam and worth the dive for anyone who loves immersive adventure gaming, from arguably two of the greatest video game creators in the genre, Lori and Corey Cole.
– Real player with 80.7 hrs in game