A pirate quartermaster
Ivan Armandy · 2020 · Pirates, Sandbox, Simulation, RPG, Typing
PC
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About A pirate quartermaster
Come and discover the real life of a pirate, a man who has left the tyrannical but honest world of kings and emperors in order to sail in equality and freedom.
Put yourself in the shoes of a quartermaster, the first mate of a pirate ship.
You will have to manage the ambition of your captain, because you guess that his interests will not always be in line with those of the crew. Thus, you will have to confront him in order to defend your sailors’ rights.
Enforcing the law will be part of your job, and avoiding injustice is essential on a ship with so few hierarchies.
But who knows? Perhaps you will prefer to defend your captain's wishes?
Handle a sailboat or a steamship to get you where you need to go! Steer, rig, heat, fish, clean, maintain, heal...
You will experience the phases of ship management in a turn based system, punctuated by the sound of the watch bell. The time unit on a boat is not the day, but the watch, because an unattended ship is a ship on the ocean floor that shelters sharks and octopuses.
Your everyday enemies will be hunger and thirst, for sure. But a sailor's worst enemy is disease. Know how to defend yourself against it.
You will have at your disposal tools that will enable you to manage the proper conduct of the ship and the possibility of modifying her compartments as you wish.
At each new game, the map will be generated procedurally. The wealth and characteristics of peoples will be redistributed randomly.
You will have to transmit the captain's orders during the gunning phases using a rather special game mechanic, as you will have to type the orders on the keyboard (possibility to click with the mouse if you have a hook instead of fingers).
You will also have to fight fiercely in hand-to-hand combat during boarding.
Initially, you will understand that life on a ship is slow, because all travels are long, otherwise, during battles, life suddenly intensifies and the pace changes.
Remember that there may be women on the ship, you may even be one of them. You would operate in the shadows, because a woman is not accepted on a ship. She brings bad luck. But don't forget: if there is a deck where a woman can end up being accepted, end up imposing herself, it's the deck of a pirate ship!
Treasure maps, artifacts, monkey business and discoveries will also spice up your daily life in the ocean.
Put yourself in the shoes of a quartermaster, the first mate of a pirate ship.
You will have to manage the ambition of your captain, because you guess that his interests will not always be in line with those of the crew. Thus, you will have to confront him in order to defend your sailors’ rights.
Enforcing the law will be part of your job, and avoiding injustice is essential on a ship with so few hierarchies.
But who knows? Perhaps you will prefer to defend your captain's wishes?
Handle a sailboat or a steamship to get you where you need to go! Steer, rig, heat, fish, clean, maintain, heal...
You will experience the phases of ship management in a turn based system, punctuated by the sound of the watch bell. The time unit on a boat is not the day, but the watch, because an unattended ship is a ship on the ocean floor that shelters sharks and octopuses.
Your everyday enemies will be hunger and thirst, for sure. But a sailor's worst enemy is disease. Know how to defend yourself against it.
You will have at your disposal tools that will enable you to manage the proper conduct of the ship and the possibility of modifying her compartments as you wish.
At each new game, the map will be generated procedurally. The wealth and characteristics of peoples will be redistributed randomly.
You will have to transmit the captain's orders during the gunning phases using a rather special game mechanic, as you will have to type the orders on the keyboard (possibility to click with the mouse if you have a hook instead of fingers).
You will also have to fight fiercely in hand-to-hand combat during boarding.
Initially, you will understand that life on a ship is slow, because all travels are long, otherwise, during battles, life suddenly intensifies and the pace changes.
Remember that there may be women on the ship, you may even be one of them. You would operate in the shadows, because a woman is not accepted on a ship. She brings bad luck. But don't forget: if there is a deck where a woman can end up being accepted, end up imposing herself, it's the deck of a pirate ship!
Treasure maps, artifacts, monkey business and discoveries will also spice up your daily life in the ocean.
What Steam players say
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Really excellent concept, really the way games should be! Full immersive pirate adventure simulation.1 found this helpful
[h3]4 hours of gameplay and I was ready to give my verdict.[/h3] [table] [tr] [th]Experience[/th] [th]Score[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Great intro to the pirate code and how it all suppose to work![/td] [td]+1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]There is a good variety of ship types, people and colors everywhere![/td] [td]+1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Many interesting random events and rewards such as a pirate![/td] [td]+1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]You can hire new crew members once you're docked and that's good.[/td] [td]+1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Assigning the crew to different stations is also a pretty fun experience![/td] [td]+1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Sailing is actually kinda fun and you feel like you're on an adventure trip![/td] [td]+1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]The sounds and graphics could have been better and music is just awful.[/td] [td]-1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]It's way too hard to earn loot and way too easy to lose it after sharing it.[/td] [td]-1[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]The docks have little variety…1 found this helpful
It took me a little while to write a review for this. But i really have enjoyed this game. it's well thought out and the mechanics are tied to each other very nicely. the combat is a fun but interesting switch/departure from the usual combat systems. the sounds in the game are good and fit the game excellently. randomly generated worlds and crew members means that each playthrough is a bit different. it feels very satisfying to train a crew member to be a doctor, only for you to lose him in the next fight as a casualty or disease
I would really want to give this game a positive review just for the attempt, but I would lie if I said I'll pick it up ever again, and it doesn't seem the dev is planning on any sequels, so not much to support here anyway I assume? The game as it is would've been much better as a text novel. Mainly because the current 2d design doesn't have much sense of style to it, and in such cases, it can be better to leave the graphics to the player's imagination. All in all, it's definitely a fresh look at Sid Meier's Pirates, only inferior in pretty much all the other design choices. Might as well get yourself a Sega emulator and just play the OG
This one has been on my wishlist for a while, and I'm really glad I finally picked it up. I love the mechanics and the concept for this one. Well done dev! I only wish it was a bit more popular, as it's certainly deserved.
Absolute freaking banger. Apparently I haven't recommended it yet, likely because I just instantly boot it up whenever I see it in my library
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