This game is definitly worth the $5 I spent on it. It is a peacefull and relaxing game that you can pick up anytime and play for 5 minutes or 5 hours. The music is suiting and sounds great and the graphics are great for the style of the game. With that said the style is very unique and fitting for a 2.5D game. The singleplayer is well built. It offers great customization of the active map and of the 6 diffrent factions. It really hit the nail on the head with the online function of the game. Not a lot of games that have both singleplayer options and multiplayer options can flawlessly pull it off. The online portion of the game features a compony spacific server aswell as other servers that poele can creat them selvs. The Tasharen server being the main server has one of the best comunities on it. Player to player interaction is spot on. The game even has a great pvp system to it. This game is not an mmo and yet I would have to say that it hass better pvp then a lot of mmos that I have played throughout the years. I will say for the time that this game has been out that it has hit some rough patches. However, This game is in my top ten favorit games and would recomend it to everyone.

Great game. Relaxing not stressfull like most games. Nice music. Solo play is fun and its great that other players can join your solo map. I just wish we could purchase ammo, food (for crew), and crew. As in the number of crew and number of ammo and number of cannons, etc. to put on our ships. Other then it being a bit arcady, its a wonderfull game :) I heard rumor you can eventually get a flying ship!? and you can fight Dragons?!.. Well when you get the game get the 4 pack and share it with friends :). Those that say its not enough due to the lack of action can go play some fps and get shot. While the rest of us will be with our crew having a wonderfull adventure accross very large (very large x100) worlds.

This is absolutely an amazing game & great community probably the most highly underrated indie game on steam I would 100% recommend this game even @ full price but when on a sale jump on it definitely worth it for single player and online + xbone controller works great haven't played a lot yet but I definitely will be playing it more (::

Tons of fun to be had in either single player or multiplayer. Your progress is always saved (assuming you join the same server, if online) and the towns / buildings you create remain. I would pay $10 for this easily, and I was lucky enough to get it on sale for $4. Worth every penny! Customize your ship, defeat pirates and/or other factions, or just be a outlaw, or maybe just a simple merchant.

Awesome, relax and thrilling. Value

fun, not terrible to look at, direct connect multiplayer doesn't seem to work though :(

It's like Mount and Blade meets Black Flag.

Finally found a chill game! :) Solo is great got the game 2 days ago and already have 20hrs. I used to play "Master of The Secret Sea" on Armor games. Loved it. Now I found Windward. :)

- Quit similar when it comes to Quests, trading, and such.
- 20hrs into the game the only difference i find is that the whole map is not loaded and is devided into segments of squars, which can be conqourd by you faction, other faction, or pirates.
32x32 world is liek the size of Europe and in Solo would takes hundread of hrs to conqour.
- You can make and customize your own faction befor starting the game. (Windard)
- No sotry line that i can find as there is a nice one in "Master of The Secret Sea" though ive only played 20hrs so far. Im sure to find something :) Esp. when i heard there are flying boats and Dragon to be found. (rumors not sure if its true)
- Can create new cities via quests and name them anything you like.
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CONs
- Cant buy ammo ammount nor food ammount (for crew) nor can u buy crew ammount. As in you cant run out of ammo in a fight..... You cant run out of food for your crew.... you cant run out of crew because none of them get hurt in battle??
- - With Devs of windard could add this to make it seem a bit more realistic when it comes to your crew :). If a 2d game can handle it im sure windward can :).

Conclusion: (not inculding my bad spelling)
Great game worth playing with your friends and family :)

This could have been the next "Sid Meier's Pirates", but you will be VERY disappointed if that's what you're looking for. Here's just some of the problems with that expectation, as far as I can tell:

Pros:
-Linux support: The only reason (other than price) that I gave this a try at all.
-Moddable? Supposedly this is moddable, (but it looks like nobody's actually taking advantage of it).
-Procedural world: This is actually pretty great, it'd be tiring going around the same Caribbean (which isn't terribly interesting in the first place) over and over.

Cons:
-WAY too "gamey". Unlike Pirates, this game is full of the standard awful copy-paste MMO gimmicks. Upgrading, "leveling", and a numbers/stats game are favored over skill and experience. (Not saying skill is a non-factor, maybe it is to a small degree.)
-Scale: ships are just WAY too big, towns are WAY too big to the point that it's just annoying. Pirates was stretching things here big time but this game's scale is so far off, any sense of realistic immersion is destroyed. It sounds silly but the biggest pain so far was that due to the sheer size of ships, you're actually spending much of your time avoiding collisions with other ships! Pretty sure that wasn't a real problem, other than during busy port navigation.
-Instances: oh god, please stop it with the MMO feature cloning. This ties into the next issue.
-Transitions and "fast travel": By far the biggest design failure this game has to offer. Probably due to the multiplayer requirements, but nevertheless, moving to other regions has a load screen. Not the huge world feeling you get from Pirates or other older explorer games. Even worse, the the transitions are almost more like "levels" than true world transitions. A major problem with "fast travel" is that you can't just turn around and go back across the "edge" of the map, obviously, so it's another big immersion killer.
-No realism whatsoever: Does wind even matter? Not that it was truly realistic, but wind and weather mattered in Pirates, how did they screw this one up? It doesn't seem like this was given any thought at all.
-"Casual" feel - don't know if it can be or not, but it feels dumbed down enough that it'd be playable on a tablet. If I had realized this I would have moved on.

If you're a stupid millennial with no attention span looking for yet another MMO-like casual game with a built in treadmill, you'll love this. But if you're looking for a modern "Sid Meier's Pirates" game with added depth and realism (as should be expected of a remake), you're going to be seriously disappointed.

Overall its a pretty fun game but can become very...grindy. I got the brigadier in a few hours but could not go into other regions with higher difficulty.