Sail and Sacrifice

Ha ha ha ! Don't bother. It's worse than what reviews describe. Utterly unprofessional product. These kids can't code a basic GUI and they try to make a complex game. Then they have the audacity to ask money for it. And then they proudly advertise the game on their online resumes. Epic levels of delusion. The Save button does nothing. The autosave they say they wrote doesn't exist. I've tried and insisted, forced to start from scratch 6 times. Plenty more issues, of course... if I wanted to flog a dead horse. Seriously, don't bother.

This is such a fantastic game! I mean, it loves to freeze and won't let me do anything! YAY! https://youtu.be/VLqDv8AeUwc

There is a good game hidden here, but it's broken as hell. First of all, optimisation is all over the place, does not matter what setting I use minimum or maximum, the same performance basically, maybe 5-10 fps difference in the 10-60fps region, if you are very high up and look at as much stuff possible the fps can drop down to 15-25, fluctuates a lot without even moving, prolly because of the foliage and maybe the pirates and natives fighting in the distance. Couldn't enjoy much of the story, seems to be about immortal pirates invading natives, something about 3 relics (first being a periscope). You can choose whatever faction you want right from the get go and seems maybe always change with what fanction you want to be with. Who you can recruit is limited by the fact if the have enough "respect"/know how towards you, or if they surrendered to you after you killed their 2-3 mates before, you can have both factions in your crew at the same time. You can fly around the same way like in Breath of the Wild with a small glider that you pop up above yourself when you hold the jump button long enough, and you can open it mid air too with a button press. You can also dive in the sea a…

I hadn't noticed this game come off of Early Access, it sure still plays like an Early Access game.

garbageware

I am a huge fan of most pirate-themed games, and I really gave this one a shot—it's still just extremely rough. It's playable, but super buggy and clearly unfinished. And God forbid you accidentally bump your mouse if you're playing with a controller; you have to restart the game if you want to resume using the controller. This could've(and [b]would've[/b]) benefited from some more time in Early Access. Nearly every positive review has less than two hours clocked in this thing. I put over four hours in and I'm telling you: this truly isn't fun. Go with [i]Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag[/i] or [i]Tempest[/i] instead. [h1]3/10[/h1]