Here Be Dragons

"Here be dragons" is unique in many ways, being everything, but not what I expected. And if you're open-minded, that is very positively. The artworks are aesthetically - I like the way everything looks like an old map. When I first saw the scenes with the governor and the walking on the city maps, I expected some kind of management or adventure game, which it isn't. These are - as far as I can see - only fixed sequences to drive the plot. In a humorous way. The gameplay itself is not a roguelike or open-world, but 'campaign'-driven, with campaign meaning some battles in a row, between which I can temporarily upgrade my ships, meaning to add a point for defense for example. The battles itself are the main part of the game, difficult even on 'fun'-difficulty, and being puzzle-like and outcome heavily influencd by dice. And this random dice throwing adds hell of thrill to the game, and every dice-placement has to be well thinked over. You can place dice into abilities, upgrading the ships hull or cannons, and use bottles to change the results to trap enemies. This way, it becomes a puzzle-battler, something I didn't xpect, and highly like!

I think this game is borderly playable and absolutely sure it is one-time game with zero replayability and zero junctions to take any decisions at levels higher than local tactic. With about half a dozen hours I've reached ending on high difficulty while forced to replay some parts of story to be able overcome final combats of arcs not due to random, but with my skill. Pros: * cheap * simle Cons: * too simple * strictly linear and very short story * random over skill * zero replayability * near to zero asset managemets

I was moderately enjoying this game before it soft locked on me twice. The second time it was at the end of a battle I won but it failed to progress to the upgrade screen. I had to do the entire battle over again for 3 ghost ships which for the game is very RNG if you can even attack them. The battles take very long if you don't get good enough rolls.

Why is this game so buggy, like every second fight needs to be restarted.

It is a fun enough game. It deserves better reviews than it has at the moment.

Simple game, best to get it on a sale (if -75% then the cost is 2,43€). I played about 4 hours and then I got bored. But 4 hours for 2,43€ is a great bargain.