Nantucket
Picaresque Games · 2018 · Strategy, Indie, Adventure, RPG, Simulation
PC
Mostly Positive78% · 77774Metacritic
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About Nantucket
✦ AI summary
Hunt whales, manage your crew, and chase the legendary Moby Dick across 19th-century seas in this strategy RPG where your choices shape an unfolding narrative of over a thousand unique events. Develop your captain, upgrade your ship, and engage in turn-based combat against rival whalers and pirates while uncovering the truth behind Herman Melville's most infamous tale.
Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
Set sail and explore the seas
Set sail around the world, visit cities, and increase your prestige by hunting whales, landing jobs, and searching for new adventures.
Be the captain you want to be
Develop your character in true RPG fashion, by increasing your stats, choosing your reactions, and developing your seafaring skills.
Manage your ship and crew
Hire and manage your crew, give them tasks on your ship, and improve your ship with new compartments, expanding your ship's capabilities.
Experience the Golden Age of whaling
Experience more than a thousand unique events tailored around your choices—and face the results of your actions.
Hunt whales and fight pirates
Discover new whaling areas, hunt whales for blubber, and protect your ship from pirates using a turn-based combat system.
Chase after Moby Dick
Follow an original story line and complete quests to unveil the secrets behind Moby Dick and dissolve Ahab’s curse.
Set sail and explore the seas
Set sail around the world, visit cities, and increase your prestige by hunting whales, landing jobs, and searching for new adventures.
Be the captain you want to be
Develop your character in true RPG fashion, by increasing your stats, choosing your reactions, and developing your seafaring skills.
Manage your ship and crew
Hire and manage your crew, give them tasks on your ship, and improve your ship with new compartments, expanding your ship's capabilities.
Experience the Golden Age of whaling
Experience more than a thousand unique events tailored around your choices—and face the results of your actions.
Hunt whales and fight pirates
Discover new whaling areas, hunt whales for blubber, and protect your ship from pirates using a turn-based combat system.
Chase after Moby Dick
Follow an original story line and complete quests to unveil the secrets behind Moby Dick and dissolve Ahab’s curse.
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 2 of 2 DLC at today's best prices.
$12.65
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This game is putrid. Great concept, horribly implemented. Program throws different "crises" at you and it seems to be totally random and without regard to your preparedness. For instance, I leave port with 86 days worth of water. 3 days in I get a decision card stating I'm running out of water...? Some of these random events are totally unrelated to what's going on on the ship. Just random tragedies which you CANNOT avoid. This game is a HOT MESS. I've played too long to get a refund but I assure you, I'll uninstall and never play again. It will be in "hidden games." SAVE YOUR MONEY.1 found this helpful
I really hate to give this game a bad review and I like most things about this game except the damn pirate battles. They are so un-fun its actually insane. Spent the last 5 hours over my week playing one ironman campaign where i got further than i ever have before. I was really enjoying the game. The first pirate battle i decide to do (After every single one of my previous campaigns has ended via pirate battles) and all the pirates target me and every hit is like 20 health and i die in one round and the campaign is over. Now I just dont think i can play this game anymore, there is no skill, it is all RNG based. The whale fights are fine, everything else is really fun but that just ruins the game for me.1 found this helpful
I'm giving the game a thumbs up because of the art style, strategy, and the amount of hours of entertainment it gave me. But... this game gets repetitive quickly. - especially for people like me who want all of the achievements. The 50 year challenge is basically 1. wait for whales 2. fight them with your captain, get points 3. dump the oil, get the blubber for points, then repeat for FIFTY YEARS I don't know if I could possibly ever achieve this unless i just let the game run afk and check back in when I need more points. I have two achievements to go, I wish the last two could be more interesting.
fun
since i usualy only comment on bad games i go through some good ones now
Nantucket is a good game that's carried by vibes and love from the creators. Combat is fine, but relatively simple, RNG dependent, and unbalanced (2 of the 4 sailor types have downright useless abilities). Trading is nice, crew management is nice, and the random events are fun. If you enjoyed reading Moby ♥♥♥♥, and you're not a hardcore lifelong video game player who cares deeply about gameplay design and balance, you'll probably enjoy this.
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