Swords and Sandals Pirates

Basically Crusader Redux, but with exploration and a bit more stuff to do

A bit buggy. I mean its $7, i think nostalgia does some heavy lifting for this franchise. i really like the concept of moving around your pirate ship. despite travel from island to island taking a few hours, your crews morale will plummet horribly in no time at all. i think maybe a clever thing would be to focus on resources before keeping a manned crew. searching for wood or even resources that can only give you gold will still make your crew terribly miserable. and 90% of the time i never got wood, despite choosing hechaos, so i guess his luck bonus didnt apply to that- it also didnt apply to fights. i think its good for random encounters via adventures and thats it. on top of that, i got the duelling skill which doesnt actually apply to fights, unless its gladiator fights i think. this was frustrating because i expended a decently sized fighting force of range, heavy, and light forces to soley target a captain, bringing her down to 2 hearts versus my full health. despite this, it was a stale mate. she took every heart and i took her 2 and we died at th same time- but i was the only one who lost- despite having surviving troops and her having absolutely zero army left. so somehow…

S H I T

cozy and simple game definitely made mostly for mobile not too much too the game has a good 4 playthroughs in it has good vibes and music reminds me a bit of a mix of s&s 5 dungeons and crusaders mixed into a game, i feel like it easily couldve had more complexities and unfortunately the AI kinda feels down graded compared to s&s crusaders and easier but i enjoyed it and think its kinda of a cute game all in all 7/10

Not worth my time.

Super Punishing, dumbass AI, 1 in 4 at best chance of instantly dying with no counter play, unreasonably difficult to gain materials, which every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ upgrade/building in the game needs, like sure I can pay 150 mats for a wall, it'll only take me searching 20 islands until I actually get ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ materials from the material gaining search. FFS Can't even name my ship any expletives, why the ♥♥♥♥ would it matter in a singleplayer game?