

Pancake Sailor
MarineVerse · April 1, 2020 · Simulation, Free to Play, Casual, Sailing, Sports
Pancake Sailor is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
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Pancake Sailor price
Pancake Sailor is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About Pancake Sailor
Explore
Explore Akalana Islands, an idyllic Caribbean location offering sunset sailing around bays and open seas. Learn the basics of sailing, including steering and speed management ( how to sail upwind and downwind ).
Beginners friendly! No prior experience required!
Features
- Your own small interactive sailboat. Steer and control the sails with simple keyboard controls.
- An idyllic Caribbean location to explore. Look around using your mouse or change camera position for a better view.
- Immersive audio with sailing and ocean sounds.
- Simple, but realistic sailing mechanics. To sail upwind, you need to zig-zag and tack, like in real life.
- An optional voice-over instructor to give you some basic tips on how to sail.
- Easy Race - Race and compare your score with the global community of players
- Multiplayer - Sail with friends, including sailors sailing in VR Regatta!
Akalana Islands map
1. Half Moon Bay, 2. The Hei Tik Island, 3. Jade Island, 4. Iguana Rock, 5. Whale Island, 6. Shipwreck Atoll, 7. David's ShoalsControls
STEERING - A, D SAILS - W, S
Game goal
There is no goal. Just explore and enjoy.
Team
MarineVerse is a team of creatives and advocates for sailing and emergent technology. Our mission is to inspire, train and connect sailors, and share the feeling of this amazing sport with a wide global audience.
VR support
If you have a VR headset, you can explore Akalana Islands in VR Regatta:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/468240/VR_Regatta__The_Sailing_Game/
Pancake Sailor — game info
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Player modes
- Single-player, Online co-op, Cross-platform multiplayer
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1] Basically sailing sim. There's not much to it but you can sail around in free roam mode or start the race. I think game is missing on some more interesting environments in different climate zones, day/night cycle and such. Maybe adding some music to existing game or just more advanced stuff would be nice. So far I can recommend only for sailing enthusiasts or sim lovers. [/h1]5 found this helpful
Pancake Sailor is a compact sailing simulation developed and published by MarineVerse that focuses on making recreational sailing understandable and enjoyable without burying newcomers beneath complicated controls. Set around the fictional Akalana Islands, the game places players aboard a small sailboat and gives them considerable freedom over what to do next. There is no elaborate campaign demanding constant progress and no complicated storyline driving the journey. Instead, the experience revolves around learning how the boat responds to wind, exploring tropical waters, participating in races, and simply enjoying the atmosphere of being at sea. Its uncomplicated structure immediately establishes Pancake Sailor as a relaxing sailing sandbox rather than a traditional objective-heavy simulation. Accessibility is one of its greatest strengths. The controls are intentionally straightforward, with basic inputs used for steering and adjusting the sails. This makes it possible for someone with little knowledge of sailing to start moving quickly, but the game still introduces genuine sailing concepts beneath that simplicity. Wind direction has a direct influence on movement, so players c…
quite fun and relaxing for people who like to sail. the game looks quite good too.
Where's the quit button?
Игра "Pancake Sailor" оказалась на удивление увлекательной и странной! С первого взгляда кажется, что это просто забавная инди-поделка, но под оберткой мультяшной графики и абсурдного сеттинга скрывается довольно глубокий и атмосферный опыт. Управление поначалу кажется неуклюжим, но к нему быстро привыкаешь, и начинаешь получать удовольствие от самого процесса "плавания" на блинчике. Юмор в игре довольно специфический, но если он вам зайдет, то будете смеяться чуть ли не над каждой мелочью. Сюжет, хоть и не блещет сложностью, держит в напряжении и заставляет задавать вопросы. Самое главное, что игра создает неповторимую атмосферу абсурда и легкой безуминки, которую сложно найти в других проектах. Из минусов можно отметить небольшую продолжительность и некоторые шероховатости в графике. Но в целом, "Pancake Sailor" - это отличный пример того, как инди-разработчики могут создать что-то оригинальное и запоминающееся, даже используя простые средства. Рекомендую всем любителям необычных и забавных игр!
"Pancake Sailor" is an unusual, non-free (content/features are heavily paywalled) casual sailing simulation where you sail a small sailboat around the Caribbean. There's not much to do unless you pay up. There's no optimisation, almost no gameplay of interest, no players for the multiplayer modes you have to pay for, and a few visual bugs and other problems with it, that you probably won't encounter because there's nothing to do here. What do you do in the game? Very, very little... at best this is a mildly interactive screensaver with annoying sounds. I'm not sure if this is an asset flip, but it's one of those cases where the assets just look much better than the rest of the quality of the game... a glaring inconsistency. There's no evidence, but as always, the biggest problem with asset flips besides the plagiarism is the deplorably low quality of the other aspects of the game, and even if the game assets are genuinely created for the game, the quality of the rest of the game is indistinguishable from that of asset flips. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. You're expected to pay up $10 USD to unlock content through DLC purchases. The game should not be considered c…
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