Port Royale 4

If you're looking for a relaxing trade game, keep looking. My first clue should have been all the tutorials and that they bribe you to suffer through them. By the time I was ready to play, I couldn't remember half of what they showed me. The mechanics of this game are unnecessarily convoluted and it tries to pack in too much content. I got so frustrated by the tutorials that I gave up. I just wanted to trade stuff and make money. I don't need the fate of entire towns resting on me, or viceroys getting pissy just because I don't obey their every wish or can't do this or that because I don't have the proper licenses.

[h1]Decent trading Sim that quickly sails into monotony [/h1] Port royale 4 gets off to a promising start. The world map looks great, setting up your first few trade routes is satisfying, and watching your merchant fleet grow gives a nice initial hook. However, once the honeymoon period wears off, the game struggles to hold your attention. The biggest issue is its severe lack of longevity. The core loop becomes incredibly repetitive very quickly and once you automate your trade routes, the game largely plays itself, leaving you with little to do other than sit back and watch your money increase. The game quickly devolves into an idle manager, and the tasks and campaign missions do not help either, as they mostly boil down to boring monotonous "deliver XX amount of goods" objectives without any real narrative flavor or weight. The turn based tactical battles looked good but after you do a few you find they lack real tactical depth and suffer from the same repetitiveness as the economic side of the game. Once you figure out the basic movement and attack patterns, fighting rarely offers a meaningful challenge or strategic payoff. Port Royale 4 isn't a bad game. It's functional,…

The worst and most thoughtlessly made game I've ever seen. A complete disaster.

I enjoyed my time with it. The Devs seemed to have fixed a lot of the problems previous reviews complained about. The history and story were refreshing. Trade and building were made simple and the game played smooth once you got use to the UI. There could have been more complexity in commodities and township, but over all it wasn't bad, though not as addicting as Patrician3.

Very simple game that involves strategy, economics, and other attributes involved with business planning. Yet is still just a game

Enjoyed playing this game.