Pirate's Life

Pirate's Life

Team Eyepatch · April 17, 2015 · Strategy, Simulation, Pirates, City Builder

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Pirate's Life price by region

Pirate's Life costs $2.99 in Georgia (USD), £3.99 in the United Kingdom, $4.99 in the United States, €4.99 in Europe (EUR), CA$5.49 in Canada, NZ$5.99 in New Zealand and R$10.49 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Pirate's Life offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $2.99 $2.99 — 1
United Kingdom £3.99 £3.99 — 1
United Statesyour region $4.99 $4.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €4.99 €4.99 — 1
Canada CA$5.49 CA$5.49 — 1
New Zealand NZ$5.99 NZ$5.99 — 1
Brazil R$10.49 R$10.49 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Pirate's Life

Pirate's Life is a 2D strategy game / city builder with an isometric camera where you take on the role of the captain of a crew of pirates that got shipwrecked on a deserted island. You will need to take care of your crews' individual needs (like hunger and drunkeness) in order to prevent a mutiny.

At first you start with a basic set of buildings but during the game you will be able to unlock higher tier buildings and new resources which you need to satisfy the needs of the experienced pirates. The better a crew member gets, the more needs he will have.

As you progress, you will also be able to build ships for your own fleet and send out raid parties to other settlements or trade routes in order to steal desperately needed resources or "recruit" new crew members which you can put to work. But every raid will increase your wanted level. Eventually the Royal Navy will start searching for your hideout to stop you from doing more mischief.

Do you have what it takes to lead your settlement from a small fishing village to an infamous pirate haven?

Features:
- 3 different technology levels
- 18 different buildings
- 24 different resources

Game modes:
- Standard (Collect as much gold as possible before the Royal Navy finds your hideout)
- Endless (Play as long as you like, you can still become victim of a mutiny)
- Custom (Select from a range of different goals)

Pirate's Life — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Dec 18, 2015
DONT BUY THIS GAME!!! Almost any current flash game will offer more game play and less bugs. Tried waiting to see if devs would fix stuff and add some actual content. That was a bad choice now Steam wont refund me even thou I have less then 2hrs played... :( Never going to open this crap game ever again. The game only has 1 map and its not even that big. Crashes all the time and the video shows 100% of the content dont expect to do anything more at all then what you see in the video. Honestly I cant see why Steam lets this trash through.
8 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 15, 2016
Reviews on this one do not lie. What you see in the video trailer is everything you get. Not worth the steam cards you could trade in to buy this game. Sorry Pirate's Life. This game is very simple with no orginality. Seems this game is just made to steal your $5 Booty. Go spend it on a whench or a cheap bottle of Rum.
7 found this helpful
Not recommended May 1, 2016
1 year no any updates and news about game
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 19, 2018
At $4.99 I wasn't expecting much. When I was able to play the game without it crashing it was interesting, but it got boring pretty quickly. The mutineering without any reason or anyway to make the pirates happy again was annoying. I would ask for my money back but steam shows 5 hours of game play which you can do while buidling up but with no instructions to go on, leaves you kind of shooting from the hip sort of speak. You have a totorial but it seems to be very short and doesn't give you much but simple introduction to how to do some basic building. The game doesn't seem to open right away and it will play in full screen and periodiclly it would close. Again it's $5.00 so don't get high hopes if you buy this game.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 24, 2016
Like a Piratey version of Banished, but without any updates since May 2015 you'd be better off playing Banished and not wasting your time on this.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 4, 2018
Boy was this a disappointment. I was hoping this was going to be like the Tropico 2 pirates game, but it was soooo not. Cosmetically it kind of is, but game play felt tedious, repetitive and boring. This game looks abandoned as well, which is always unfortunate. Like I said cosmetically it is like Tropico 2. You build a pirate island kingdom then send your ships on missions. You get special items from your raids that allow you to then upgrade buildings, leading to better ships. Sometimes things go wrong on raids and you lose guys. There doesn't seem much you can do to make your odds in these offscreen battles any better. I put 3 hours into it and really 3 hours too many. I even came back after a update, but yeah it was still terrible. Hopefully one day we'll get a better spiritual succesor to Tropico 2 because that game is awesome.

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