Doe the author have to print the disclaimer "No Whales were killed during the development or playing of this game". Really! It is a simple but well designed game that loosely represents the time of American Whaling. Whales were plentiful and hunted for oil, food, and Ambergris. I have played it for hours without a single issue. An excellent indication of the competency of the developer. I would never recommend the hunting of actual whales but as an RPG gamer, Nantucket is well worth the money.
This is a unique Game. It is an RPG where you are directly involved in the battle which you command a small group of troupes much like a TOTAL WAR battle. There is even a simulation component since you can buy businesses in each of the cities you travel through. I usually play as a trader and build up a competent mercenary crew to support me as I move from one dangerous area to another. But you can also play as soldier who commits to a certain warlord and works his way up to king of one of the kingdoms. I have a 90BG004TUS LENOVO with 12 gigs of memory but it uses only a small portion of the memory. This game works very well as you move about firing your bow or swinging an Axe or Sword or mounted on a Warhorse doing the same. If you are a person who enjoys RPGs, you will enjoy this game. I have played it several times in Windows 10 without a single problem.
I have played this game through 3 times without a glitch in Windows 10 on a LENOVO 90BG004TUS with 12 Gigs of memory I brought at Best Buy. I have also played the GOG versions of the first Witcher (Enhanced), and Witcher II (Which still has the terrible interface but is still a great game). Again, both played without a glitch. I have set the games up as Administrator. Not sure what happens if you install them as a user.
I have CDs of the first two Witcher games but purchased the Game of the Year Version of Witcher 3. It worked so well in Windows 10 that I purchased the original Witcher and Witcher 2. The also worked fine from start to finish. I tend to over develop my character because I only allow myself to die once for each level I reach in the game. (don't know how you could play where you can only die once since some side missions are just meant to kill you.) In any case, I have performed most of the side missions in all three Witchers and only had one where you complete the side mission but it is never acknowledged by the game. For RPG games there is no doubt that the Witcher is the best for both game play and story although Witcher 2 still has the strange interface issue that came with the publisher. I have a Lenovo 90BG004TUS with 12 gigs of memory and the only GOG games I have not been able to play are the Knights of the Republic Star Wars games. I have many others that work with DOSBOX but for some reason, those 2 will not play.
I liked this game. It was kind of the old Zork text adventure game but with pictures. It was certainly worth the $3 I paid for it. However, after playing it for the third time, the Scavenge button which is critical to game play, stopped working. Reinstalling after manually removing all the directories, eliminating all registry entries, and deleting the .exe users save game, did not rectify the problem. This same problem also occurs with the steam installation and there are many more complaints there for the same problem. This is really just a warning that there is a critical defect in the game that seems to only occur rarely but seems to be unrecoverable. I have Windows 10 64 bit OS and many, many games on my machine so it may be an incompatibility problem, except I have no other game that executes in flash. {PS. I believe this is a valid warning for a condition that would be important to potential customers and therefore does not deserve to be isolated into the forum. However, I will concur with the monitors viewpoint if he decides it is a forum only issue).
