Rogue Waters

Got this game in a bundle, spent a good while in it. I enjoyed myself, but my overall review will have to be a No. If you can get it during a bundle/sale for $10-15, then go for it. There's a few pieces contributing to this: (1) For a single player game, there's an unacceptable level of gacha-style rolling and grinding. (2) Your actual choices you make during the run don't feel particularly interesting. (3) The difficulty scaling isn't well-balanced, meaning you're basically forced into a repetitive pattern of cheesing fights via cheese.

TL;DR: Excellent game, but severely buggy and in the hands of developers so incompetent and careless that their every attempt to patch it just creates new issues. There's a lot to love about this game. Like, it's genuinely a lot of fun! As a Roguelite, it's more 'lite' than 'Rogue' - sure, your ship resets after every expedition, but your crew accrues XP and you get currency you can use for permanent upgrades, and this happens regardless of whether your expedition ended in death or victory, so it's very forgiving. The gameplay is overall solid, and the only criticism I could really make is that the ship-to-ship battle-system is overly random, with cannons dealing, for example, 1-3 damage, or 0-5 damage, which can create a situation where your expedition founders purely because a series of bad rolls led to your ship getting blasted to splinters. It seems particularly dumb when considering how brilliant the 'boarding' combat is - being completely deterministic, with no 'chance to miss' or range of damage. As long as you think through every turn, you know exactly what you're going to get from each move, and you can even take moves back if you realize you miscalculated. That's the w…

Good concept, not elaborate enough to be fun. Theme and mecanics are interesting, but the game cruelly lack depth and is highly repetitive.

Game is fun, gets a bit repetitive around 15 hour mark, at least it did for me, but it's buggy like crazy.

The idea of the game is a lot like the other roguelites out there, like darkest dungeon ect... This game is not for me, but I had a lot of fun playing what I did, and figuring it out. The game play is pretty easy to master, the tutorials are quite thorough, and there is a nice aspect of it being a different theme (pirates instead of medieval). The game currently has quite a few bugs, like stunned people unable to be directly targeted, some game continuation issues when you choose an action among others (those are the two that were most common for me), and I would like the tooltips of the skills to be a little more explanative of what happens for the skill, like "Aim" obvious what it does but what effect will be upon your character, and what can interrupt it Overall, if you like darkest dungeon, give this a shake if you want. It is nice, easy to master in my opinion, but repetitive. These kinds of games arent for me.

There were fun elements to the game, but they repeat....a lot. There is a ton of grinding to be done and even after that the sheer number of missions you need to do leaves your crew pretty much dead by the end when you meet the boss/tough battles. You can have full hp and get knocked off a boat easy, but I shoot you and if you have armor it doesn't do anything at all or misses. Some mechanics just don't make sense. The story is overplayed and underwhelming. It was entertaining for a bit, but near the end I was just not having any fun.