BECOME THE PIRATE CAPTAIN
Set sail as Captain Cutter, a pirate caught in a deadly struggle for power and vengeance. Navigate dangerous waters, unleash mythical sea creatures, and outwit enemies as you chase legendary treasure and confront dark secrets.
Embark on a journey...
Set sail as Captain Cutter, a pirate caught in a deadly struggle for power and vengeance. Navigate dangerous waters, unleash mythical sea creatures, and outwit enemies as you chase legendary treasure and confront dark secrets.
Embark on a journey of loyalty, betrayal, and revenge, as you unravel the mysteries of the Sea Shepherd prophecy and face the immortal Captain Blackbone.
Use your Pirate Cave(HUB) to equip ship upgrades & crew members before each run.
Each run generates new encounters, requiring careful navigation as you work your way toward Captain Blackbone.
Enjoy a rich, story-driven adventure across 3 acts, with endless replayability.
ASSEMBLE YOUR CREW
Recruit and grow your pirate crew, discovering their hidden potential as you lead them into battle. It's your responsibility to mold them into the legendary pirates they were destined to be.
Recruit from 6 unique classes, each with distinct abilities and playstyles for your ship’s crew.
After each run, upgrade your crew’s skills to increase their effectiveness.
Damage persists across runs, requiring you to swap out crew members to allow them time to heal.
EVER-CHANGING LAND AND SEA
Face new challenges as the game world shifts procedurally with each run, offering fresh secrets, combat scenarios, and treasures to discover.
Encounters feature diverse pirate factions and enemy types—choose your battles wisely.
Your crew will engage enemies on ships and land alike.
Visit shops to heal, upgrade crew, buy cannons, and repair your ship.
You can extort shops for loot, but it’ll lead to a fight.
TURN THE TIDES
Customize your naval encounters with cannons and ship artillery. Unleash powerful shots during naval combat to destroy enemy ship modules and gain the upper hand in boarding fights.
Encounters begin with Sea Battles where you can use cannons to target key areas of enemy ships.
Both your ship and the enemy's have distinct buffs that can be destroyed.
Crew members can be targeted and killed during battle, so defend your ship and crew before boarding.
THOUGHT-PROVOKING TACTICS
Experience a fresh take on turn-based tactical combat that replicates the visceral intensity of cloak-and-dagger duels. Use the environment to gain the upper hand like never before.
The boarding phase involves hand-to-hand combat where your crew faces off against enemies.
Use your crew's unique abilities to maneuver and pin enemies against obstacles for fatal damage.
Leverage the environment by pushing enemies into spikes, grabbing one-time weapons, or swinging into position with ropes.
SUMMON CREATURES FROM THE DEEP
Legendary sea creatures, once thought to be myths, roam the oceans of Rogue Waters. Free them from captivity and gain their trust to summon them in battle.
Summon 3 sea monsters to assist in the boarding phase:
The Kraken crushes nearby enemies.
The Mermaid disrupts and pushes enemies in any direction.
The Giant Snail drops a deadly spiked obstacle on the deck.
A ROGUE-LITE PIRATE ADVENTURE
Each run resets your equipment and items, but unlocks permanent upgrades for your crew, ship, and Captain Cutter, allowing you to grow stronger with every battle.
Items and upgrades reset between each run:
Personal items (character equipment): additional weapons, attack modifiers, and side upgrades for abilities.
Shipboard weapons (cannons and similar items): each new run begins with a usable, basic starter set.
Ship modules reset as well.
Each run permanently increases your progress:
Unlock skill trees for crew members and Captain Cutter.
Acquire ship and port facility upgrades in the Pirate Cave (HUB).
.. with constant patches that added more content and balance since release .
This game is excellent. It adds a very nice dynamic of starting with the ship to ship battle, that basically decides starting hp and buffs and then the game switches to the pirate vs everyone else battles, on the ship/fortress. The battles rely heavily on positioning, since almost every attack moves your opponent. So pushing is a big part of the combat.
The campaign itself is done in a rogue-lite fashion. You fight until you lose and then upgrade your ship/crew with the exp and money your left with (more of you win obviously). The game has amazing variety in the amount of abilities and enemies you face and also the dangers you find on every ship (depending on the enemy type you have guns /puddles of fire /tar/poison, ropes to swing you into position etc.).
The only cons the game has imo are: the voice acting (it's pretty amateur ish and cringe at times) and the animations (which are floaty and don't connect properly sometimes).
For the price, I highly recommend it if you love tbs and pirates, especially if you're maybe newer to these types of games, since the game has nice difficulty options to help you out and the game doesn't require a lot of time investment (the battles go by pretty fast and keep you engaged quite well). Fyi I have it on steam and have about 20-30h playtime so far. Cheers!
Starts off very easy, half-prepares you for your first loss, then delivers it with a "what just happened?" moment - I'm used to tactical turn based games, so I wasn't playing on Story or Normal.
You learn the ropes (pun intended) the randomness throws you some curveballs early on. Despite some of the fights feeling rigged (also intended) you realise that you just don't have the points to compete, so its back to repeating missions to build up crew/ship/equipment so you can survive the more difficult tiers. The difficulty tapers off, but you still get broadsided (still intended) now and again by a perfect random combo.
All said, its not too bad, but a couple of the mechanics make it a bit of a slog, and the lack of variety lets it down.
The game have great potential and I love the setting, exploring and basebuilding. Some of the dialogue is a bit crinch and some of the "random" events quickly gets old, but the gameplay is fun. I would recommending the game for any fan of turn based strategy games. Xcom with Pirates!
Perfect connection this two tactic games, very nice pirate's climate. I can recomend if you have half hour for break, sometimes a little more time, it is enough for one pirate's expedition. It includes a few battles and a few buying new equipments parts
This is a good, well-paced game. It is definitely one of those "just one more turn" games, and you can enjoy it for hours. The dialogue is hilarious, and each of the classes has a unique feel. Five stars.
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