Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships

Totally old crap that doesn't run on Windows 10. Whenever I tried to run it it went back to the desktop screen. Tried compatibility mode, administrator rights etc. Waste of money. Good thing I got it on sale so I didn't lose much money.

Totally unplayable garbage, don't waste your time. Unresponsive controls, weird key binding and constant crashes on modern hardware

A couple hours in, all I could really experience was a first person perspective, which is exactly what I wanted to avoid. Had the game been tagged as such, I would not have purchased.

Akella is king when it comes to garbage. I am baffled that other people have left good reviews for this game. Lets start with a fact. Akella, the developer, went out of business. So it's obvious the games didn't sell well and for good reason. I'm the guy among my friend group that likes bad games. I accept most games good and bad because I have a love and appreciation for the ideas and experiments made in a product even if it fails to deliver them. I liked Mighty No. 9. I liked No Mans Sky. I liked Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5. Some games I can't stand but can accept they are a genre not for me. However, this is something else. It totes all of the exciting adventure elements of an open world AAA game. And yet, it fails miserably. Here is everything wrong with this game: - It recycled the assets and almost everything from the previous game (Caribbean Tales). You are basically paying for patches. Even even the towns are clones of each other WITHIN THE GAME. - There is no tutorial. It has a mess of a UI and the easiest difficulty is so punishing that if you mess up you might as well start a new game. Quests are often too vague to follow. - There is a quest where you get murdered. No joke, there is no way out of it. I wonder how that is supposed to be fun for the player. - In ship combat, you are forced to engage the enemy. You always spawn far enough apart that if you are chasing the enemy, you will never catch them. When the situation is reverse, the chase will go on forever, because they will never get far enough away to trigger the escape option. - You can easily kill one enemy in front of you but are easily killed when fighting two or more. WTF? - Prepare to sail from point A to point B repeatedly with no action for 20 or so hours. That is the amount of income you need to start anything interesting, like attacking ships. - Naval Combat/Movement is slow and the turbo mode is only 2x speed, which is still freaking slow. - You never have enough money ever.

While I think this game might be fun for some, I find controls and in-game information very poor and overall playing experience very frustrating. It is a shame, because you can clearly see that this game has some potential - wasted by horrible UX.