East India Company

I played the game on the Disk version and loved it. However, the Steam Version is unplayable and is always crashing. Buying this game is a total waste of money and just throwing it away. Steam should fix the game and update it, otherwise it is completely unplayable in its current form.

it is super fun to pla, but you need to know what your playing. If you like games like ages of empires, then you will probably like this, but if you like games likesea of thieves, this is probably not for you

This is a good old game and I had a lot of fun playing it. It's an economy/management sim with some trappings of real-time strategy. The overall goal of the map is to dominate trade routes between Europe and India and build an unmatched trade empire. Overall this game is very well done and the sim is very balanced in regards to the economy and factors needed to build a trade empire; for example, you would think that simply dominating ports and building bigger fleets is the key to winning, and surprisingly it is not; building more expensive ships and having a lot of ports increases the maintenance costs of your trade empire which causes runaway costs that ruins your cashflow and ability to trade, so the game requires maximization of trade routes to win, not just domination. The game interface is from 2009 so it does feel dated when playing it, but I stress that "dated" does not mean bad, the in-game menus and screens are intuitive and simple to use. Also, the graphics are good enough to carry the game. Crucially the naval warfare is in real-time (not turn based) and is fun; It's very much an arcade/RTS style point and click naval warfare game (not a true sim) but does contain the s…

if you dont want to fight but want to proof that you are good bussiness man

great game play graphics

A classic of the genre. Many happy memories with this one.