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Port Royale

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3.9/5

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3.9

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Port Royale
Description
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...
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3.9/5

( 51 Reviews )

3.9

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Product details
2003, ASCARON Entertainment, ESRB Rating: Teen...
System requirements
Windows 7/8/10, 1 GHz, 256 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9...
Time to beat
85.5 hMain
170 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
127 h All Styles
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Description
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
Goodies
manual (34 pages) map
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
85.5 hMain
170 h Main + Sides
-- Completionist
127 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2003-06-04T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
482 MB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Mild Violence, Alcohol Reference)

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Languages
English
audio
text
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Posted on: January 27, 2022

RetroBatesy

Verified owner

Games: 41 Reviews: 7

A Glorious Trading Game

Already had PR2 and saw this one on sale too so picked it up. Curious to see the difference, I can report that is is also very cool. Allows you to trade away in the colonies as one of the civilised nations and build riches and influence for the glory and honour of Empire! Great fun.


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Posted on: April 9, 2025

Hiwaypilot

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Games: 140 Reviews: 3

Back to basics

I've played Port Royale 3 for a while but wanted to try out the original. It does not disappoint. i guess you'd call it 'good bones'. I see why this is everyone's favorite.


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Posted on: September 12, 2024

Makaveli03

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Games: 5 Reviews: 1

GOATED

Game of my childhood, glad to play it again.


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Posted on: September 22, 2024

harm1383

Verified owner

Games: 69 Reviews: 47

just to try it

i was looking out for Patrizier, DIe Gilde, Fugger, Die Hanse etc...found this one too...just checked it out...truely i'm more into those other games & i think patrizier 3 is a bit better (graphics, gameplay etc) ...but still it's a good alternative... it's a nice add-on for my 2 lil i4770/i4790 4gb gpu 8/16gb ram win10 pc's; on them i play older pc (90's - early2010's)/dos/amiga-emu games...still looking out for older cheap games on sale...


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Posted on: September 21, 2022

TMCricket

Verified owner

Games: 14 Reviews: 1

Some appeal, but really boring overall

The game is quite gripping when played for the first time. I myself have spent, what must have been, around 6 hours on the first day I launched it. It seems I just liked the concept of travelling through the seas and doing business in the Caribbean. But the longer one plays this game, the more shortcomings, goofs and boredom shows through. Just like Jolly Roger appearing on the horizon out of nowhere... It it generally fun to travel the sea and build businesses in this game - trying to find the most lucrative deals in the Caribbean to gather wealth. But this is where the fun ends... One problem are the missions in the game. There are few of them, they are boring and extremely repetitive. In some cases, governors will stubbornly offer exact same missions over a course of several months. Moreover, many missions are complex, one-time only and available only during several first months of the gameplay. At the very time where players generally lack the resources or money to get these missions accomplished. In other words, players have only two options - either decline the mission and never have it offered again or accept it and fail miserably. Crashes in the game, which have been mentioned by other reviewers, are a fact. For some weird reason, it's always the German developers whose source codes are a mess. If you played Tropico 1 or Tropico 4, you'll understand what i mean... Crashes can happen anytime. Even during such mundane actions as selecting Inn or a Governor's Palace. Fortunately, the game has an autosave function which can minimize gameplay losses from frequent CTDs. One of the biggest let-downs is also the story ending, which is very anticlimactic and, to be honest, hugely disrespectful towards the player. It is presented in the form of a note in the player's logbook... A NOTE. IN THE PLAYER'S LOGBOOK. Not even a cutscene of any sort. Just a notepad memo... Overall, a game good for sick leave or prison term. Hardly exciting after the first playthrough.


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