Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships

The game focuses heavily on what a pirate game should be about: piracy, trading and epic naval battles. It's basically a "limited open-world" that puts your tactical skills to the test. But if you ever should bore from trading and being a pirate, then be an adventurer and discover treasure, lost cities, encounter curses and the undead. Your decisions in the game can make or break you and there's nothing holding your hand or trying to guide you through the game. If you don't use your wits you will not progress through the game. This game ties so much different aspect into one epic playthrough that you will come to love. That being said the game also have some real re-playability. Initially you can start out as one of three different characters and make different choices when it comes to the different factions in the game. Sid Meiers' pirates! is the childrens version of this game and even though AC: Black Flag boasts better graphics, there is only one king of the pirate games. This is it. Just play the game and enjoy the awesomeness of it all. And then... PiratesAhoy.net !!!MODS!!!

Корсары ГПК, это большая, комплексная и разнообразная ролевая песочница, в которой сложные сюжетные квесты переплетаются с повседневной торговой, каперской, или если угодно - пиратской рутиной. На данный момент, я провел в игре уже 15 часов, и за все врея утопил только пару тройку пиратских баркасов. Игра не принуждает игрока сражаться. Игра не принуждает игрока вообще ни к чему. Игрок сам ставит себе цели и занимается тем, что ему интересно. Раньше я никогда толком не играл в эту серию игр. Она казалась мне клоном пиратов сида мейера. Но нет. На проверку это оказался очень умный и самобытный проект, наверняка тайком вдохновивший серию Mount&blade. Только здесь возможностей и механик кажется больше и проработаны они лучше. Это прекрасная игра, полная захватывающих приключений и острых ощущений.

Seriously, the player interface is clunky and not intuitive. Very frustrating until you memorize where things are. But if you stick with it, it becomes a fantastic open world sailing/trading/fighting/pirating/adventure. F2 key is your friend to finding most important stuff about your character, ships, crew, etc. As mentioned below, Piratesahoy.net hosts some must-have mods that both fix and add to the stock game. Also note that you don't HAVE to play as a pirate in this game. It's totally free choice on a grand scale. Giving it only 4 stars because of the gawd awful stock interface and lack of a proper tutorial. Sail on.

Very old Akella "Sea Dog" since 2000. I was part of the team that ported corrections of this game to English based on errors on the dialogue coding and engine. If you want a pirate game that has interesting quests (some of which are keyboard breaking hard), but rewarding, this is your game. There is no other game that can match the overall atmosphere of this title, even after over a decade. This includes its sequel, "Sea Dogs: To Each His Own". The graphics and engine are dated today, and the control scheme archaic but this is easy to overcome. The few aspects that most modern gamers have problems are the rogue style gameplay (saving is critical), lack of clear directions (no big pointy arrows), and the need to take actual notes on paper (oh, the humanity!). "Do you have the courage and fortitude to follow orders and stay true in the face of danger and almost certain death?"

The vanilla game is ok, if a little buggy. But this game really shines if you add the Gentlemen of Fortune 2.0 mod. This mod will add many more starting characters, options, ships, quests, expanded trading options etc etc. It's a great Pirate RPG, that includes character progression and a vast array of vessels to use. Still looks pretty nice at 1080p.