Hey Captain! Now that you’ve got the Jolly Roger fluttering in the wind over your ship, you’re ready to rove the seas, take on merchant ships loaded with booty and storm formidable fortresses. Set sail and get your hands on all those legendary treasures that are just waiting for the picking!
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Hey Captain! Now that you’ve got the Jolly Roger fluttering in the wind over your ship, you’re ready to rove the seas, take on merchant ships loaded with booty and storm formidable fortresses. Set sail and get your hands on all those legendary treasures that are just waiting for the picking!
When we created Tempest, we focused on the most thrilling part of pirate life – sea battles.
As you navigate the dangerous waters of the game you won’t just catch up with merchants, but you will encounter fellow pirates, creepy followers of a mysterious cult and terrible mythical monsters: Kraken, Leviathan and other infamous creatures.
Your ship – the pride and joy of any freebooter – can be customized in many ways. You are free to change almost everything – from the color of your flag and sails to the ship’s hull and figurehead.
Of course, there are plenty of weapons to choose from for every battle, including cannons, mortars, flame throwers and so on. Also there are special tools ready to help you to rig the ship for any purpose. However, you can win the most valuable artifacts only by finishing the multilevel quests called “legends”.
Free roam: Limitless sailing in real time - use Global Map only if you want to!
Pirate cooperation: Share the world of Tempest between you and your friends. Pirate, trade and do quests together, or declare war to each other and watch the ocean burn!
Seafarer’s adventures: Buy ships, upgrade your ships, decorate your ships!
Great gameplay, but there is only one slot for automatic save.
Often the game can break this save file and then you have to begin game from the beginning, because you cannot load this file again.
No backups, no manual saves.
The workaround is to making backups by .bat script every 5 minutes.
If it would be fixed, then I could give five stars. Now is only two.
It's sad, because I really liked this game.
If I listened to every bad review on this page and didn't buy this game then I feel I would have done myself a disservice.
I love pirate themed games, but have struggled in the past to find one that did what this game does: there's such a strong focus on the sailing! True, this isn't an Assassin's Creed game where you jump off your ship and go places. 90% of your time is spent on the ship, in the open sea. (Or you can quick travel via the world map if you don't enjoy taking your time!)
There's a handful of times you exit your ship, but you can tell that's not the main focus of the game. It looks great, but the mechanics are simplistic: click and attack. But that's OK, because, again, it's NOT the main focus.
The main focus is the SAILING! And they nailed it! Maybe the game used to be more buggy... which may explain previous bad reviews... but I haven't experienced ANY bugs personally. I've just really enjoyed sailing my ship out on the open sea. The battles are fun and easy to grasp as well. Play your cards right and you can board an enemy ship and fight the crew. (Again, it's click and attack, don't get too excited!) But it's still fun.
The atmosphere and sound effects are fantastic. And, it isn't too difficult to balance resources with finances either. The different roles you could take on are pretty easily distinguishable. Either you fight a lot or you don't. If you don't, be prepared to spend more money on ale and such to keep your crew happy. Otherwise each victory improves morale.
There are also multiple factions to balance between, and each one has it's own advantage or benefit to your ship. One has a bank, one gives you cannonballs, etc. Get on bad terms with one and face the consequences! (Helping one faction may upset another, so be careful which side you choose!)
Graphically this game is beautiful. The sailing scenes are just what I need to relax some nights: Out on the open water, sun setting in the background...
Get it on sale! Give it a chance!
Idk what's happening with the other reviews, they seem drunker then the pirates in the game...either that or they're old AF and are COMPLETLEY irrelevant.
This game is GREAT. It is very similar to Sid Meiers Pirates, as in its a lot more arcade-y, top down shooter then realistic sim. IT doesn't have a timeless art style like that one so its missing it's charm but it does have everything else going for it.
-Graphics- are poor...this is a phone game as well (idk which is the original and which is the port) so yeah, it's pretty ugh.
-Sound- is good and also it has some nice music to boot that really lifts the combat/exploration to a new level, as music should.
-Combat- is super fun. Typical arcade pirate combat with a lot of turning and firing, but also the game has magic in it, so you have a TON of spells you can equip to your ship for defensive/offensive playstyles. Other then that you have a massive amount of ammo types and you can equip your ship with armor/sails/cannons with different bonuses.
Game also has a very simple but quite fun boarding mechanic (and also ground combat on islands). You can move freely (no QTE's thank god) use your sword, gun and block, but at least it's there and it's fun...unlike the new ubisoft pirate game that's coming out without a boarding mechanic...in 2022 ...from a triple a studio?! just wow.
-Quests/story-the game has a MASSIVE amount of quests to do, which I love, because just fighting for no reason always bores me. You have a lot of factions, each of them with different goals (trading/combat etc) and they each have like a dozen quests depending on your reputation with them and they are repeatable. And besides those there are quests that appear as you explore...like hunting down sea monsters, yeah those are a thing.
So yeah, overall the game is great fun, but just know what to expect: it's a very repetitive game, just like any open-world pirate games, it's simple, but for 10 bucks on sale, with dlc, its DEFINITELY worth it.
Started game, had no tutorial.
Tried to fiddle around with ship settings but that didn't really explain anything.
Somehow lost a crew memeber in that process.
Left the starting site for my first mission, got there, & suddenly the game loaded an instance & took away my control of the ship. Couldn't steer & my ship crashed into some rocks.
This game needs ALOT of work.
Like the concept though - good luck.
I wished very much that this game would be... better. It didn't even have to be that good, as I was adding it to a collection alongside Patrician 3 and King of Seas. I just wanted to sail around with a ship and do... stuff. Not a high bar by any stretch.
Alas it quickly became clear from the controls that the game was originally designed for mobile, swiping from menu to menu and pressing big buttons to perform simple actions. For me that was an immediate problem, as it just doesn't provide the feeling that I wanted from such a game. Worse it also felt like a bit of deception - I wanted a PC game, not a mobile game.
Also quick to rear its ugly head, bugs! Sometimes quests wouldn't trigger correctly even during the tutorial, and you'll see plenty of text items showing their name-in-code rather than the block of text they're supposed to have fetched. Meh. The tutorial itself is a bit of a mess, a convoluted and lengthy means to introduce you to every tiny piece of the mechanics... one. at. a. time.
Save yourself, don't buy it. It's a regret even at the sale price. It's worse than a bad game, it's a disappointing game - so full of potential... and failing to capitalise.
I'm off to remove the DLC from my wishlist.
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