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Port Royale

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3.9/5

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3.9

51 Reviews

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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...
Genre:
Strategy - Real-time - Historical
Tags:
Strategy, Classic, Management, Historical, Real-Time, show 7 more... Resource Management, Isometric, Building, City builder, Trading, Pirates, Naval
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3.9/5

( 51 Reviews )

3.9

51 Reviews

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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:
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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 length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Real-time - Historical
Tags:
Strategy, Classic, Management, Historical, Real-Time, show 7 more... Resource Management, Isometric, Building, City builder, Trading, Pirates, Naval
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2003-06-04T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
ASCARON Entertainment / Kalypso Media Digital
Size:
482 MB
Links:
Forum discussion
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Mild Violence, Alcohol Reference)
Game features
Multi-player
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
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User reviews

Posted on: August 9, 2024

R4Zi3L

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Games: 371 Reviews: 34

Very nice graphics for 2002 economy game

You need to run a spreadsheet to accomplish anything, not for me, but music is also nice

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Posted on: August 24, 2024

ecas1056

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Games: 3 Reviews: 2

PR 2

Game keeps crashing. Sucks. But when working, can be a small challange.

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Posted on: August 25, 2024

schapie1

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Games: 3 Reviews: 1

awesome

awesome

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Posted on: May 31, 2020

Martin2381

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Games: 147 Reviews: 25

The known crash is still there

This is a very good game...except for the crashing. It's a known issue that the developers were aware of but wouldn't fix, something to do with memory allocation, but I can't find the page that described it. I had fun with it in the old days and wuold love to have another playthrough, finding my sister, but it now crashes far too often. I've given it two stars not one as it is a good game. However, I can't recommend buying it due to the crashing.

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Posted on: July 7, 2024

DesertQueen

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Games: Reviews: 1

Port Royale 1

Yaaarrggh! An old school strategy game. Been playing since it's inception from 2003 and the old school Ascaron and Sacred Gold/ Patrician days. It still holds up against Master of Orion 2. Somewhat hah! It's good. If you have the maturity and aptitude/hardware for older games like Merchant Colony 1991 it will serve you well. Just have an old Wonders XP system to run it properly at 1280x1024 slash 4:3 ratio monitor. Decent stuff. And better than that Port Royale 2 crap.

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