Block of Rum
Obi-Wanya · 2019 · Building, Naval, Naval Combat, Sailing, Pirates
PC
Mixed67% · 36 📉 Recent reviews down 47%
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About Block of Rum
Block of Rum is a sandbox dedicated to building sailing ships and piracy.
Voyage the procedurally generated world on a ship of your own construction, you have to fight with other ships and capture towns - all in order to get more resources and make your ship more cool.
Create your ship from a variety of blocks with different characteristics. Think over the appearance. Hone the design of the ship. Find your balance between speed, strength and firepower. Experiment as you like, the main thing is that your creation could keep afloat and move at least a little!
However, remember that the ship is not only a combat unit, it's also a transport. The blocks located in the inventory do not move in the place with you - they are in the area where you purchased them and will disappear as soon as they are left without your supervision. Only blocks that which is loaded on the ship always remains with you! Unless, of course, will not be destroyed in the next battle. But you can always sell the extra load in one of the cities.
Around the world, on the islands and continents scattered dozens of cities, they all trade with each other, and at the same time constantly feuding. Sometimes some cities manage to capture others and form whole empires. Of course, cities do not tolerate pirates, and no one guarantees that your ship will not be attacked while you are busy, but only in cities you can buy the missing blocks, replenish your crew and, on occasion, find some dubious job.
Attack other ships and cities to take away all that remains of them when the battle is over. Shoot the cores or grapeshot, without any sight, simply turning the ship with cannons in the direction of the enemy. Use the strengths of your ship to win. But remember that damage affects the characteristics of ships and any accidental hit can drastically change the course of the battle.
But the battle is not only artillery fire. Often you will have to arrange a boarding to finish the battle or get an enemy ship in the best condition. During boarding, you will command the crew of your ship in step by step mode. Hand-to-hand skirmishes and musket volleys are break by calms when you have the opportunity to assess the situation and give the next orders to the crew. Isn't it a bit like card games? That's just the moves are made simultaneously with the enemy, and the "decks" may be disparate sizes ...
Voyage the procedurally generated world on a ship of your own construction, you have to fight with other ships and capture towns - all in order to get more resources and make your ship more cool.
Building
Create your ship from a variety of blocks with different characteristics. Think over the appearance. Hone the design of the ship. Find your balance between speed, strength and firepower. Experiment as you like, the main thing is that your creation could keep afloat and move at least a little!
However, remember that the ship is not only a combat unit, it's also a transport. The blocks located in the inventory do not move in the place with you - they are in the area where you purchased them and will disappear as soon as they are left without your supervision. Only blocks that which is loaded on the ship always remains with you! Unless, of course, will not be destroyed in the next battle. But you can always sell the extra load in one of the cities.
World
Around the world, on the islands and continents scattered dozens of cities, they all trade with each other, and at the same time constantly feuding. Sometimes some cities manage to capture others and form whole empires. Of course, cities do not tolerate pirates, and no one guarantees that your ship will not be attacked while you are busy, but only in cities you can buy the missing blocks, replenish your crew and, on occasion, find some dubious job.
Sea battles
Attack other ships and cities to take away all that remains of them when the battle is over. Shoot the cores or grapeshot, without any sight, simply turning the ship with cannons in the direction of the enemy. Use the strengths of your ship to win. But remember that damage affects the characteristics of ships and any accidental hit can drastically change the course of the battle.
Boarding
But the battle is not only artillery fire. Often you will have to arrange a boarding to finish the battle or get an enemy ship in the best condition. During boarding, you will command the crew of your ship in step by step mode. Hand-to-hand skirmishes and musket volleys are break by calms when you have the opportunity to assess the situation and give the next orders to the crew. Isn't it a bit like card games? That's just the moves are made simultaneously with the enemy, and the "decks" may be disparate sizes ...
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
(!!!MAJOR REVIEW CHANGE!!!) So originally, I had said I would not recommend this game, however I also stated that I would change it if my problems with the game were fixed. So, I am happy to say that with the update 0.7.1 (which was the next update after my review) the following problems have been fixed to my satisfaction. 1: Inability to escape from battle (FIXED) 2: Lack of Warning about losing inventory (FIXED) 3: Quest tracking (FIXED) Sooo, since all my complaints are fixed to my acceptance, I am happy to change my review to RECOMMEND! I left my complaints so you can see what I was upset about. Hope this helps! ------ Original Review (!!!!EDIT!!!! SEE BOTTOM)I don't normally review or rate games, but this one I feel needs a review so that everyone knows what they're getting into: 1: Don't expect to play for long in your game. In the 3 hours I have played, I have had to restart over 15 times. There is NO option to flee from fights and ships will literally hunt you down and attack you, so you spend most of your time running around trying to avoid fights. And to make matters worse, the game doesn't care that your in a tiny 2 gun 40 block ship. It could send a 2k+ ship after…3 found this helpful
Seems like there's a lot of bugs in the latest version. Can't attack cities, and all the ships on the map disappeared. It also takes forever to open the quest and trade menus.2 found this helpful
YIKES... looks like a fun game, but as soon as i leave ship editor i just get some error code box. this error code box is useless because text is invisible. i will change this review if the game gets fixed and i actually get to play it.. until then, not worth even downloading.2 found this helpful
WILL UPDATE:Released before features that make it playable missing. Really enjoy aesthetic and direction. as long as the updates keep up it will be good.1 found this helpful
I can't believe a 3 year old game is still this bare. I also can't believe I'm thumbing down a 10USD-ish game on discount. I thought I've set the bar low enough. But sails fail to work when placed in particular ways, and you repeatedly get ganked by 1800-block ships while you are in a 100 block "boat" and there's no escape because they are either faster than you or pushing you against land, and when you try to go to a port for quest, the attack button is triggered before you even see it. And what is the most annoying is the cut-in scene that interrupts whenever shells land close to either side. It's way longer than needed and is unskippable, and above all you can't expect when it will switch back to combat (and thus, when you need to prepare to get back to control). Fanboys may debate that due to the sandbox nature the scene is needed for the system to calculate damage, but it's not. Calculation can and should be done internally, so that the battle goes on smoothly without constant stutters like these. The idea is great, but the overall gameplay around the idea is just horrible.1 found this helpful
game stopped being updated and is now impossible to play I WISH i could leave a good review but since the dev abounded the game i doubt it will be fixed
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