Recent reviews by CeReaL

The voices are text to speech, there are spelling errors, the combat and movement feels weird, there is 0 immersion. List goes on. 30 minutes of my life gone. PLEASE watch a video before buying this game, the trailer makes it out to be a mix of NMS and SC, but it is not nearly the same quality. Other reviews say its a solo developer so there is some leniency, I want to add, fiverr exists for voice acting and spell/grammar check, please invest. This game could be good, really. Just fix the voices, the spelling errors, definitely allow for some preference changes for the ground combat (over the shoulder shooters are uncomfortable for some of us, especially when you cant switch the dominant hand), and some other things.

Let me preface this by saying- I love the game, I want it to expand. However, for the time being it gets a negative review because it plays like a demo. Advertising a game with an update road-map is understandable, but to me I'd rather a full release game with planned content to add, not a somewhat finished game, with the rest of the content planned out.

Game is quite slow at first, picks up very quickly, then gets really hard really quick. I got quite far in and the jump from level 35 to level 60 happens in like 2 quests, there feels like a whooooole bunch of content that was skipped, but it wasn't. There is a jump from level 25 ish to 35 which isn't as bad. Side quests really don't give that much variety or exp, its protect this ship on a 2 minute sail with very few if any enemies, go talk to the cartogropher 2 minutes or less away, or something very similar.

Then there is attempting to hunt particular ships. On my grind from 25 to 35 I really tried hunting navy ships in the middle for side quests for new equipment, and even near King's Port, basically nothing was spawning. The enemy AI is also very funky, very often when sailing near them they will turn into you when trying to avoid you, stop FAR to late, or just sail into you without even trying to turn. The level 50 boss and his two escorts did this to me a couple times when attempting the fight, effectively stunlocking and killing me.

As for bugs, I only really ran into one, the level 50 bossfight boss set me on fire right before the cutscene, and dying, repairing, changing ships, etc, couldn't get rid of the visual and audio. It wasn't damaging my ship, just my patience. Had to close and restart the game.

That being said, I like the game. I reallllly hope it gets expanded on a lot further.

5 ship types, where effectively one is the starter ship, one is useless, and the other 3 are basic ship types could be expanded upon to add more ships to the classes, galleons could get ships of the line, frigates could get a bit larger, brigs could get larger or faster, or bonuses for abilities or something, who knows.

As for equipables, it would be cool to see randomly generated items kind of like path of exile or diablo, as running into the same few items per slot gets kind of old. I get it with the abilities, and the abilities are great fun don't get me wrong. But the items are just lacking in variety.

I really want to see this game fleshed out more. It does not play like a full game. It plays like a demo. A feeling of missing content from the storyline that leads to level gaps that require hours of mindless grinding, lackluster variety in ships and items, odd enemy AI, sparse enemy spawns making hunting during downtime or for sidequests difficult and time consuming, distinct rarity of Commanders to kill for rare loot ( I only encountered 2 on my 11 hour save outside of the quest ones ), and more.

Great game, definitely needs more content. I will HAPPILY change this review positive when it feels more fleshed out and a few issues are fixed.

It's okay I guess. C2 gets toxic tho