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0.1 hrs on record
Got this for free and I still want my money back.
Posted June 3, 2023.
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1,252.5 hrs on record (714.8 hrs at review time)
Anno 1800... imagine Sid Meyer's Civilization, Sid Meyer's Pirates, and SimCity all had a baby together who was slightly autistic in all the best ways possible (you know, like the weird cat-girl you had a secret crush on in high school), and -- oh yes -- wants to eat your soul, or at the very least utterly destroy your concept of time.

No kidding, the game actually warns you to go make a sandwich or check in on your family at 2-hour intervals up to 12 hours, of which I have heard more times than I care to admit.

As I noted, it's like a streamlined version of the aforementioned classics: Make and break alliances with AI or other players through schmoozing and intimidation; trade with them or steal from them in a reasonably dynamic market all while battling them with 19th century ships while simultaneously trying to build and evolve multiple cities, colonies and outposts to guard and supply your investments. All this while trying to cater to the needs and whims of your citizens who are more than eager to abandon you should you not provide then with the right flavor of berry trifle or the wrong shade of motorbike.

In addition to this metagame, there are numerous minigames for various rewards, usually "specialist" npcs who assist you in various ways like altering production rates or allowing you to use poop to make dynamite instead of chemicals. Best of all, you can even jump into 1st person mode to solve these minigames ("have you seen the pack of dogs eating my chickens?" or "hey can you photograph the two guys pummeling each other behind church?") and therefore wander the streets of your cities as if you were really a citizen there, before zooming back out to watch your sailing ships pounding the docks of that nagging ♥♥♥♥♥ who declared war on you just because you didn't ship her tea in a timely manner.

Oh yes, and even when you finally crush your enemies and have in fact seen them driven before you, there's still a half-dozen pre-written scenarios to lament over which create permanent rewards for you in the base game if you actually beat them.

And take pity on the poor console owners of this game who do not have access to the DLC yet or even the very active modding community on Nexus. Revel in your PC superiority...and don't forget to buy a few more slaves prisoners with jobs from the Wormways Prison!

Buy it on sale if you can, and do not hesitate to pick up all the DLCs along with it (just the 4 season passes, the rest are duplicates), as you are going to buy them eventually anyways.
Posted March 18, 2023.
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10.9 hrs on record
Simple city builder with the added difficulty of building a city balanced to not tip over. Emphasis though is on "simple" - I beat the game in 10 hours without even trying. Repetitive with very limited replay factor. Get it on sale.
Posted January 28, 2023.
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387.0 hrs on record (330.2 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
It's a fairly simple straightforward city builder with a cute premise. The only downside is performance; even on my top end Alienware with 64gb ram, the game suddenly grinds to 10fps or worse at around 400 beavers. Hopefully they will address this in an update.
Posted January 26, 2023.
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1.2 hrs on record
I wish there was a neutral vote. The 2 hours of play I got in before returning it reminded me a bit of Kenshi, which I love, and I can see why so many love this game, but I cannot get past the sh*tty graphics and the fact that so much gameplay revolves around text-based messages that happen on parts of the screen you might not be looking at (I'm on a 5k ultrawide monitor.) If there was a way to make the rando stuff more obvious and less "text in the corner" I might consider playing this again.

Posted July 31, 2022.
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0.5 hrs on record
It's pretty and likely will have appeal for console kiddies, but as an old-school gamer used to key/mouse and freeform combat systems, I cannot recommend this.

Combat pretty much assumes you have a game controller; the keyboard equivalents are awkward at best; for example dialog boxes cannot be dismissed with the mouse but must instead remove your fingers from the awds cluster to hit escape; likewise the combat seems to favor third-person lock-on targeting with no way to re-aim or animation-cancel mid-attack.

This effectively reduces combat to a 3D version of a side-scroller; I had high hopes for the game based on my (much younger, console generation) friends recommendations, but there are much better games out there, combatwise... ones that dont give me motion sickness and frustration just because the controls are designed around consoles.

They say combat in here is difficult... but that should be because of the monsters... not the interface. If they add first person options and get rid of the way combat locks you into place during attacks, I might reconsider.
Posted April 25, 2022.
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9.0 hrs on record
Cute little indie survival game
Posted January 7, 2022.
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6.2 hrs on record
The game is supposed to be a pirate sim, but really its just a dumbed-down pirate-themed minecraft: gather resources, build a fort, look for the one vendor who can sell you guns and ammo, fight npcs and hunt OP animals... that's about it. Has some interesting PVP options (trebuchets, cannon and ballistae, even a hang glider) but this become moot since nobody is ever online.

Worth it if you can pick this up for 3-4 bucks; do not pay full price as it's incomplete abandonware. You can make your own server, which is nice; I strongly suggest increasing "item drops" from 1 to 5 so you dont have to cut down an entire forest just to make one wall, and maybe even switch on creative mode so you can play with it a bit. At default settings, the game is just stupidly impossible to play due to a lack of resources and/or guides.

If devs were smart they would make this freeware and open it up to modding, but they have already moved on to their next project which is essentially the same thing with better sailing.
Posted January 5, 2022.
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86.4 hrs on record
Great old school fun... did I mention the entire game is opensourced so you can write your own mods that do anything? Yeah... awesome game if you are a programmer.
Posted January 3, 2022.
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88.5 hrs on record
Interesting mix of zombies, crafting and parkour...the story/questmode reminds me of GTA. The end boss battle is overwhelmingly disappointing though and has zero consideraion for your weapons or skills... its just A-S-D-W-A-A-FFFFFFFFF. Lame. Still fun to run around at night though and jump over zombies.
Posted November 17, 2021.
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