Captains of the Wacky Waters
Captains of the Wacky Waters is a fast-paced boat roguelike where ships drift and krakens wear moustaches!
Back in the day, helping ghosts get to Heaven was an easy task, but someone wiped out the peace in the Wacky Waters and now all the captains have to learn to defend themselves and their crew. At least until the old days return.
Combine the strength of your rowers and the wind force to navigate around the procedurally generated zones, gradually improving your ship and finding powerful configurations that will help you in combat.
KEY FEATURES
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Every playthrough is different, allowing a lot of replayability.
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Good vibes roguelike with loads of wackiness and weirdness.
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Unlock new playable captains after defeating them. Each ship has different features and a special ability to play with.
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Save cute little ghosts that will join the crew taking one out of the 6 different roles to help you in your journey.
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Use many weapons to shoot and slash your enemies, including a cannonball shotgun, a boats cannon, or a giant hammer.
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Lots of gadgets and upgrades. These are curious and diverse items with different functions to upgrade and configure your ship, from a medieval spear to a pair of giant incognito glasses for your boat.
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Navigate different zones with unique gameplay styles and aesthetics, which will become more and more strange.
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Many, many hats! Every living thing in the game wears its own type of hat.
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VR Regatta - The Sailing Game
UPDATE: It has been over 2 years since I initially reviewed this title. I have plenty of time in it both here on Steam as well as in the Oculus Quest port. The title has evolved a lot over the years, so my description in the original review doesn’t include any of the numerous elements that have been added to VR Sailing.
I just wanted to update my initial review because I remain extremely impressed with this title and especially the developer who is the most committed VR developer I’m aware of. VR Regatta is obviously a passion-project for this team, and they have gone to great lengths to continuously improving the title in order to spread their love and knowledge of sailing. It really is an awesome title, and I do recommend it to anyone who is slightly interested.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game
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I don’t know anything about boats or sailing, but having played VR Regatta I feel a little wiser. This game is a sailing simulator and in general a relaxing VR experience. Features of the game include learning about the different parts of the boat, learning about wind and sails, and then of course actually sailing the boat in races or just free-sail relaxation modes. There is also an experimentation mode allowing you to sail on turbulent ocean waters and another mode that lets you walk around the surface of a galleon. It is still in Early Access right now so I feels to me like the game is still finding its identity.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Breakwaters
CLOSED BETA/EARLY ACCESS REVIEW!
So I was lucky to be one of the people being able to play around with the closed beta and even though we didn’t have access to all the EA content and even though we ran into quite a few bugs at the time (most of whom have been fixed or being worked on right now), I had a ton of fun playing this.
It’s a relaxing survival and exploration sim with many things to explore, craft and build.
The water physics are amazing. You can basically manipulate the water to do anything, if you know how.
– Real player with 32.1 hrs in game
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Got an early review copy and was excited to try this as it had been on my radar since seeing the trailer earlier this year. Unfortunately the flaws became readily apparent pretty quickly.
Pros:
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Looks nice
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Water mechanics are interesting
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Gathering resources and crafting are easy
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Armor and weapons don’t lose durability
Cons:
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Movement feels really off
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Even after lowering the sensitivity the camera is still way too fast
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Combat is not good at all, there’s no blocking, dodging or rolling and enemies have very basic attack patterns
– Real player with 8.2 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
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
The Caribbean Sail
Forget that the graphics would have looked dated on a Commodore 64. Never mind that you didn’t think you wanted a dying-at-sea simulator until now. This game is good. Your first run will be a disaster: you will board your raft, purchase whatever meager supplies you can scrounge up, and expect to have a fighting chance of reaching the nearest port, a mere thousand miles away. Hah. Your crew will starve. Those who don’t starve will catch the plague. Those who don’t die of plague will be picked off by Spaniards or pirates. All while a chiptune rendition of ‘Drunken Sailor’ tinkles merrily in the background.
– Real player with 90.0 hrs in game
Probably the best indie game I’ve ever played. If you have a thing for anything nautical you should totally play this game - there are so many things you can do. You can be a fisherman and make a living through selling fish, be a wealthy merchant carrying various flags to use them to fool around enemy ships to trade with them without involving yourself in the war while carrying an abundance of cheap luxuries bought from China to sell them to rich Americans or you can buy a powerful warship and be a pirate to destroy anything in sight and loot every ship you come across, or save civilized world from crazy pirates by being an ally of England or doing an absolutely crazy thing like sailing from China to America with the cheapest ship. You can even catch a giant whale or be a master gambler. Game goes on no matter what you ending achieve, so possibilities are endless.
– Real player with 61.2 hrs in game
Noah
Seeing the incoming dark clouds, some seek shelter and others build an ark. Step into the pre-apocalyptic world as Noah and lead the bravest project of ancient times! Gather the required resources to build a ship able to withstand the diversity of Earth’s fauna on its deck.
Don’t forget the dove though, without her the voyage might take forever!
The rainstorm is close, and after all, you must save at least a pair of each species.
Animals are just animals, and they can get quite unbearable… they spread around the world and don’t want to listen - bah, it might come to you carrying them around on your own back!
Once you’re done with that, don’t forget to pack the supplies. Otherwise… you know…
Problems with livestock and the race to beat the clock are not the only concerns you’ll face.
You’re just starting out with this praiseworthy quest and some wicked folks are already looking forward to your demise. Fight them without batting an eye - this time it doesn’t count as a sin!
If you think building the Ark is not something you’ll manage on your own, bring your friends along!
Together you’ll be able to wrap it all up much quicker, as well as make it easier to defend the floating zoo when a mass attack happens. No worries - there’s plenty of work to do even for four of you!
Ship construction and saving animal species are probably not the easiest activities, as well as being the captain during the final voyage. In the end, however, the rain will stop. Looking out for the land, you’ll realize you saved the world once again - and this time it all went without a single gunshot.
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Q: Why is being a pirate so addictive?
A: Because when ye lose yer hand, ye get hooked!
‘Tempest: Pirate Action’ takes us to a timescape where the tantalizing tall tales of tanalised tallship tars turn true! This is one of my favourite PC games to date, along with ‘The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt’ and ‘Naval Action’. That’s partly because I love square-rigger sailing ships and 1700s maritime history and lore. Of these three games, I consider Tempest the most imaginitive and atmospheric.
This open world game is much better than I expected, based on the YouTube reviews. Various aspects of the game have been much improved since those reviews were posted. The ship-capturing boarding action, for example, is now vastly better, with fully mobile, realistic fighting characters, one of which, you fully control, so you can take part in the melee, close and personal, from a 3rd-person perspecive. That’s something that neither ‘Naval Action’ nor ‘The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt’ can boast.
– Real player with 204.5 hrs in game
Score : 55-60/100
Unfortunately it is ““NOT”” a full pirates game.
If you’re looking for a real pirates game this one will disappointed you.
Good points:
- Graphic is acceptable
-Ship easy upgrade
-Some of the special items were good designed
-Ship fighting is ok ( Only to those who just enjoy firing cannon balls )
-Auto picking up design
-Time speed up design
Weak points :
***One of the greatest weak point is : this game have “NO” save and worst of all …….there’re traps that didn’t looks like a trap that we will lost 1/4 or even 1/2 of our most experience crews without warning !!!!! 0 . Though we can still play the game without a save file.
– Real player with 148.2 hrs in game