Explore the Caribbean sea and towns in the predecessor to the best open-ended buccaneer game of all time! In this one your goal is to become the Governor. You can choose between 4 different character nationalities from English, French, Dutch or Spanish. Along the way you decide your character's care...
Explore the Caribbean sea and towns in the predecessor to the best open-ended buccaneer game of all time! In this one your goal is to become the Governor.
You can choose between 4 different character nationalities from English, French, Dutch or Spanish. Along the way you decide your character's career path, and live an adventurer's life, where you will follow all assigned missions and tasks. You will be able to buy maps to hidden treasures, find secret pirate hovels, trade between all 60 available cities, build up your own business or become a pirate! And whatever you choose sooner or later you will participate in beautiful sea battles.
Port Royale places the player within real historic locations. You are given the option to choose between 4 different times in history – 1570, 1600, 1630 or 1660. Each of these timelines has direct influence over the game play. You will witness wars, disasters and much more in this rich and dangerous world. So be prepared for everything and ready your cutlass and pistol – the adventure awaits!
Become a landowner, merchant, pirate or adventurer
Command entire fleets and participate in both skirmishes and epic sea battles
Live the life of a freelancer or pledge yourself to one of the world powers fighting for dominance over the Caribbean Sea
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It's Port Royale 2 but far less of the annoying minigames to contend with. My GoG copy runs excellently on Windows 7 and 10 in 2020. Relaxing and laid-back, its perfect for the poorly world we live in at present, but with a real micromanagement depth not unlike Patrician III, also from the late lamented Ascaron studio.
If you can get it to run on your machine, its still a fantastic title from yesteryear that'll entertain for hundreds of hours. You can choose to play in different start years -earlier means the Spanish towns dominate the map, but later the English and Dutch run rampant as France is pushed towards the U.S. coast. Piracy is always an option in these games, so yarr etc.
Recommended in 2020.
Port Royale cannot be compared to Patrician III, but is definitely a good game.
I find this game relaxing, entertaining and possibly challenging (especially if you set specific goals for your sandbox scenarios). Trading is well done, there are many towns to trade with, missions, pirates, you know that kind of stuff. Naval battles are more developed than Patrician III for sure.
Overall, I reccomend this game if you like trading simulation with a historical setting.
I'm playing on Win10 without problems at the moment.
One of my all time favourite games. The multiplayer version makes it a great game and with better computers now it doesnt break anywhere near as much as it did 10 years ago. PR2 isnt multiplayer and therefore didnt interest me. This game builds as time progresses and we have set aside boxing day to play this game once again - at $3 its a steal.
I didn't expect to stick with this game for so long, but evening by evening it took more than 150 hours. Why so? It is relaxing. I really enjoy the music, so sometimes I just put it on pause while doing some chores, and the music plays... So every time I was tired after a working day and not in a mood to play something rushing and competitive - I used to launch Port Royale.
The graphics is pretty, unless you zoom in too close - it gets pixelated, but still looks nice.
You start as a trader (or a pirate, if you wish), and at first it looks like buy/voyage/sell, whack-a-pirate game. But then you start encountering some characters in taverns, that tell you pieces of your story. And gradually this trading game turns out to become a story of family vendetta between you and a notorious pirate, Axesmith. And this story is going to follow you as you gain levels, wealth and fame.
There are a number of repetitive quests, but also there are some rare and unique ones, which I only encountered once or twice per game. Like, looking for a witch or solving tavern riddles.
Battles are not that complicated after you get used to them - though, at the beginning, steering more than 3 ships at once can be challenging, later you get used to handle up to 10. It is a bit difficult if they are at a different corners of the battlefield, but manageable.
Different kinds of gunshots have different range, contrary to what some other reviewers say - so if you load grapeshots for a close combat and the enemy ship gets further away, you'll probably have to reload to a long-range shots, or do some manoeuvring to cut the distance.
Regarding drawbacks - the game is not historically accurate in regards to which towns belong to which nations in a particular starting year. It does not really affect gameplay, but I have to mention it.
PS There is a funny but annoying bug - the game doesn't see save files created in 2024, so now I have to set the system time to 2023 to be able to play.
Got this out of nostalgia, have enjoyed all iterations of this franchise (well, except the latest...) but with a Win 10 gaming laptop it CTD's every time I go to the battle screen. PR 2 seems more stable.
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