I don't know what the deal is with the Steam reviews of this game. Currently the bar for pirate-based games is set on titles such as Akella's Sea Dogs games (particularly the 2003 Pirates of the Caribbean game with the excellent New Horizons mod) and Assassin's Creed Black Flag. While both of those games possess features that the other lacks, this game does absolutely nothing for the genre, it takes like five things you can already do in those other games and slaps them together in a very simplistic environment. In my opinion, the biggest issue with this game is that the open world section of it functions identically to those old Sea Dogs games which came out a long time ago and were unfortunately subjects to the limitations of the hardware available during their development. The ports, the buildings, the sea are all their own separate instances, you want to walk on over to your ship and grab the wheel Assassin's creed style? Well for that you have to walk down to the pier and press F to get teleported onto the ship and the only walking on it that you'll do is around your little cabin, having literally only the map to interact with. You can't even walk around the ship while sailing, even the Sea Dogs games have that. Regarding the visuals, everything is pretty obvious. While I do understand that the dev team is small and the game intentionally went for an indie feel, the fact that the NPC models come from a 50$ asset pack says a lot. Just like the Sid Meier's Pirates game, there's about an hour of excitement you'll get out of this game before you turn it off. Unlike its inspiration PotC New Horizons, this game has NO RPG elements, no various goods to trade, no skills, stats points, numerous ships, numerous weapons, officers, none of the complexity save for some ship upgrades, 1 unfun storyline and 1 side quest of sinking ships. Get Akella's PotC game and install the New Horizons mod, the VR wankers on Steam giving this a positive review are misleading you.
