Game was abandoned in order to build another game that they likely wont finish either.

Abandoned :' (

When I first saw this game I knew it was going to be a blast. Who doesn't want to pillage islands and destroy enemy pirate ships?

Starting the game I took the time to design a pirate and give him a name. Then I selected a back story for him. I was on the right track! After about 15 minutes of playing I realized that my character I took the time to customize had died, and was replaced with a new captain! I thought this was odd, but decided to keep playing. Maybe it wouldn't affect the story. I mean, I can get over the trivial loss of my new favorite character and learn to love his replacement that I hired from a tavern.

After about 4 hours of pillaging and ship fights I decided it was time to get to business and get more involved in the story. I needed to find my objectives. It was then that I realized that there is no story. No quests. Not objectives, aside from achievements. It really sucked, but I decided that I bought the game and have already wasted about 4 hours playing. Why not finish?

I began recruiting crew members. Trained them. Leveled them. I made my way to the first legendary boss. Sure, things got rough, but I managed to pull through. The ship battles got even better when I figured out how to work cannons. I could take down an enemy ship before they even had a chance to board! I was untouchable! When I got to the first legendary pirate boss I was excited. Then I realized that this legendary pirate didn't have a single cannon on his ship. None. I was able to destroy him and his ship before the boarding phase of combat. It was a total letdown. Not only that, he and his crew had fewer hit points than other pirates I'd already faced. Not much of a legendary pirate if you ask me.

It didn't take long before I stopped visiting islands and just headed straight for the other legendary pirates. It was a wholly underwhelming experience.

The laundry list of bugs and design flaws were also more than a minor pain.

• Poop gets stuck inside the ship. It manages to get stuck BETWEEN the blocks of hull, making it impossible for your crew to clean. You also can't remove blocks around poop, so it has to stay there until you take the time to clear out your entire ship build and start from scratch. But then it just happens again 15 minutes later.

• If you are sailing to an area and cross paths with an enemy pirate you can choose to fight or flee. If you flee successfully you don't continue your trip, but instead have to open the map again and select your destination. This makes travelling long distances very annoying.

• If a crew member gets stuck while trying to perform a task (like picking up poop or loading a cannon) no other crew member will attempt the same task. Now you're down a crew member until you notice and tell him to move somewhere.

• Trying to make a pirate flee is near impossible. If you tell him to run away and he is hit, he will target whatever hit him and attack. This results in you trying to get him to run by constantly clicking, but he just ends up dying.

• The controls are inconsistent. In some screens you have to use the keyboard to pan the view. In others only the mouse can be used. You also can't use the mouse wheel to scroll through lists of items, and clicking an item will take you back to the top of the list.

• Crew frequently have trouble targeting enemies. You can send your entire crew down to attack some enemies, but once they kill the enemy half of them will stand around doing nothing until you give them a new target.

• Pirates must be part of your "Ship Crew" group to get them to clean or repair the ship, even if they're idle with nothing else to do.

• Vertical panning of the camera has been disabled. You can build your ship very tall, but you won't be able to scroll up to see it.

• Some sounds come from the wrong stereo channel. For example, a crew member can be training on the ship on the left side of the screen, but the sound effects will come from the right speaker. If you scroll far enough to the right it will eventually move to the left speaker.

• Massive frame drops when you build a large ship. There were times I went from 200 FPS down to about 3 while trying to build my ship.

• Pets don't seem to have any real benefit, and because the captain is the only one that can carry them they are too cumbersome to be used in a fight.

• The crew needs to poop CONSTANTLY. They always end up piled up around the toilets and food. The ship will be a ghost town except in the bathroom, where you will find 30 guys in about 5 blocks of space. They will even stop fighting to run to the bathroom if they're on the ship.

• If there's a captain's chair he won't do anything but sit in it. Well, except poop and eat.

• Scurvy sets in after about 10 minutes. The crew will eat 20 pieces of fruit before they even TOUCH another piece of food. Food sources that don't have vitamins will sit on the deck for ages being unused.

• The "Boarders" group doesn't seem to do anything. I have to manually command them to board an enemy ship once it is in range. And after I send them across, if I don't stop my "Gunners" group they'll blow up my Boarders while they're on the enemy ship.

I really wanted to like this game, and I looked forward to it from the time I saw early screenshots and videos. Being that it was released over a year ago and it still has these major flaws is very disappointing. This game has real potential.

Game was abandoned.

My expirience were ruined do to game sudenly deciding that my ship was no longer there, pirates stoped cleaning ♥♥♥♥ and generaly werent responding.
But not counting that:
1. The game is intrsting only at the start.
2. The game has been abandoned for over half a year already. (Last update is february 19)
3. Once you get direct hit cannons you can spam them on your ship and win any encounter that you face.

I wish i could recommend this game...
It's good for a few hours, but after a while the game gets boring and repeatable, there's nothing to do , ur just traveling from town to town, from island to island. from my opinion even a big feature the ship building is also not complex enough...
You may try Re Logic's other game Terraria wich is fantastic, if you like the developers Pixel Piracy is a good chance to donate them with some money.
So in a nutshell the game is boring and I DO NOT recommend buying it!

RRR! Being a Pirate hasn't been this fun since Assassin's Creed 4. Though lacking in the graphics, the fact that you can mold your crew and ship makes this game have loads of replay value... which is good because the Bosses in this game are pretty easy. The permadeath on crewmembers can either make this game really sad or more fun by sending your bad members on suicide missions. Loads of fun!

I like this game pretty much, kinda a 6/10 piece, still worth the money if you buy it at 50% off imo. However I cannot recommend this game, due to all the bugs it has and the developer abandoned the project, means they will never get fixed.

here are some of the games flaws:

-Too little naval cannon actions, ships rarely sunk by cannon bombardment, which makes the standard cannon nearly useless against larger vessels. On the other hand, swivel gun is much more effective for it targets the crew and reduce their HP, makes the following up boarding much easier.

-Some facilities on the ship such as rum buckets, training swords, training weights are not very useful, the crews rarely use them or not at all.

-Pathfinder is buggy. The crews and livestocks sometimes just jump overboard for no particular reason, making the swimming skill a must have. Sometimes they even got stucked when trying to reach food and water, and gain hunger because they fail to reach the resources.

-Cannot assign the ship blocks or sections. Crews and animals just wander around at their will, makes it difficult to do any micromanagement. The crew's job divisions didnt really help.

-Looting takes too much time and micro, once you take over the enemy's ship, because of the nature of this game's control mechanic, you can only loot one item at a time; hell, what's all the crews for if they cannot help you hurl the treasure chests/urns?

It might be cool or interesting later in the game but the tutorial is awful, at one part it tells you to do something and I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how to do that thing, never did so I skipped the tutorial and am now hopelessly lost. A bad tutorial can ruin a game.

A very fun game that I think everyone should play for fun!