Pixel Piracy

 PC
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6.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 87 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 49 out of 87
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 87
  3. Negative: 23 out of 87

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  1. Ganscaile
    Oct 15, 2014
    4
    This game is definitely NOT a finished version and still needs a lot of work. Apart from tons of bugs ranging from annoying to absolutely game breaking, the rest of the game simply is pretty mediocre.

    The core idea is rather interesting and I was pretty excited to play it. Each crew member is a character with his own set of stats and the possibility to teach him new skills for combat or    This game is definitely NOT a finished version and still needs a lot of work. Apart from tons of bugs ranging from annoying to absolutely game breaking, the rest of the game simply is pretty mediocre.

    The core idea is rather interesting and I was pretty excited to play it. Each crew member is a character with his own set of stats and the possibility to teach him new skills for combat or ship duty. Crews can get quite large and it is vital to ensure that certain roles are present on your ship. The ship itself is built block by block and can also be upgraded with several special modules that enhance its sailing speed, allow to store food or raise the number of hull points.

    How this idea is implemented, though, is pretty disappointing. Controlling your crew is pretty tedious in most situations and doesn't work at all in some. This has nothing to do with mutinying crew members, the user interface, or the artificial intelligence respectively, just stops working. Battles suffer greatly from the inability to control single crew members. You either watch in fear, as your pirates just run around aimlessly far behind enemy lines or simply lose some of them because they retreat far too late. Ordering their whole group back to the ship also doesn't work properly many times. There are many other examples of these issues, like the captain ALWAYS stopping in a tavern when one is on the way to the shop you wanted to send him to.

    Managing your crew and building the ship is either way too complicated or simply bugged. When you try to modify your ship when standing in front of a shop owner, the interface completely bugs out. Also, so far there are only 2 different weapons you can install on your ship. Equipping items and teaching skills to your pirates, too, is absolutely convoluted. This is mostly due to the fact that there is no overview for all the items you have. Instead you have to select a crew member, click on its passive, melee or ranged item slot and then select an item from a menu. This also applies to using consumables like skill books.

    In summary, I would not recommend this game at all. If you see it at a heavy discount, like I did, MAYBE you can squeeze some hours of fun out of it. I paid 5€ and will probably play it for another hour or two, just to see everything it has to offer, but I doubt it will make up for all the poor design decisions and bugs this game contains.    … Expand
  2. CartoonHead
    Dec 18, 2014
    0
    Got the game in a bundle. Load it up, and you are just thrown on an island with a terrible user interface and no idea what is going on. Could really do with some sort of tutorial.

    Certain games benifit from this approach like Risen, but not this game. The controls and look of the game is terrible and just feels like an 8 bit Sid Meiers Pirates, only not even 1% as good. Apparently    Got the game in a bundle. Load it up, and you are just thrown on an island with a terrible user interface and no idea what is going on. Could really do with some sort of tutorial.

    Certain games benifit from this approach like Risen, but not this game. The controls and look of the game is terrible and just feels like an 8 bit Sid Meiers Pirates, only not even 1% as good.

    Apparently there are load of game breaking bugs and is in some sort of Alpha state. Avoid at all costs.

    Edit: Oh, and now I get banned from the forum for posting a negative review and calling out bullying they allow. What a bunch of childish ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ the devs and mods are. Make Phil Fish look like professional of the year.    … Expand
  3. Pirogki
    Apr 6, 2015
    0
    0 из 10 за обещание ввести русский язык!Разрабы будьте людьми,нефиг скакать на пендосовском елдаке,подумайте об соотечественниках и запилите русский язык.
  4. Negativvv
    Aug 4, 2014
    3
    Started off pretty fantastic but got worse and worse, even on "easy" with morale and hunger decay set at the lowest both are still a huge problem. Eventually you are just sailing around trying to get ontop of the upkeep of your crew.

    Combat tactics are non existent, just watch and hope. Just a tedious micro management "game". The little bugs just kill it off, you try to kit out a    Started off pretty fantastic but got worse and worse, even on "easy" with morale and hunger decay set at the lowest both are still a huge problem. Eventually you are just sailing around trying to get ontop of the upkeep of your crew.

    Combat tactics are non existent, just watch and hope.

    Just a tedious micro management "game".

    The little bugs just kill it off, you try to kit out a good ship with training and other entertainment but then your fishermen, chef and cleaners stop doing their job so everyone starves and gets up to their waist in their own excrement :-

    Another indie disappointment....    … Expand
  5. Gambolputty
    Aug 5, 2014
    2
    I do not understand why the devs decided to release the game instead of keeping it as Early Access. It is still so full of bugs that it is unplayable. Without the bugs, I think the game would be great. I'll probably wait a few months before giving this a try again.
  6. pandapandapanda
    Aug 3, 2014
    0
    This game is riddled with game-breaking bugs and poorly implemented features.
    - Crews don't go where they're told
    - Even on Easy, it is excruciatingly difficult to get a companion to level up with you because they die so fast. Well, if you thought you could keep them out of combat, (1) they don't listen, (2) they don't share XP from kills from your more seasoned fighters. - Morale is    This game is riddled with game-breaking bugs and poorly implemented features.
    - Crews don't go where they're told
    - Even on Easy, it is excruciatingly difficult to get a companion to level up with you because they die so fast. Well, if you thought you could keep them out of combat, (1) they don't listen, (2) they don't share XP from kills from your more seasoned fighters.
    - Morale is broken
    - UI is broken: if I want to eat food, I have to go to the "Shipbuilding" panel... if I want to give my crew a consumable, I have to select them in the crew tab and "equip" a "passive item". You can't even go to a screen where all of your items are visable at once, which leaves you guessing...
    - Poorly implemented tutorial. The fact that you can't pause and view the tutorial properly at the same time tells you all you need to know about this problem.
    - Poor translation
    - No officially sanctioned community or bug reporting
    - You can't save the game at your convenience, even on the non-hardcore setting. This wouldn't be so upsetting if the game didn't have so many game-ending/breaking bugs/features. I'm currently stuck on a save where my Captain has 3 health and is bleeding; aka I die immediately after loading.

    This could have been a great game. The developers jumped the gun by releasing this as a completed product ("1.0") so soon. Hope they find a way to make things better.    … Expand
  7. Killen
    Jun 1, 2016
    0
    Разработчики давным-давно обещали перевести игру на русский. С тех пор прошло уже 3 года и ничего не изменилось. Неужели так трудно найти средства для перевода? Разработчики же потом всё равно получили бы прибыль с продаж в своём родном регионе. "Соотечественники"...Разработчики давным-давно обещали перевести игру на русский. С тех пор прошло уже 3 года и ничего не изменилось. Неужели так трудно найти средства для перевода? Разработчики же потом всё равно получили бы прибыль с продаж в своём родном регионе. "Соотечественники"...
  8. XaveTheNerd
    Feb 10, 2015
    1
    Yes the game LOOKS good. Yes the game SOUNDS good.
    But!
    The game plays terribly. There are only three things to do: a) Go to towns where thieves steal your money and you can buy weak crew members who constantly try to fight (so therefore die) b) Go to islands where a large number of decently strong enemies are (with a treasure chest with like 5 gold in it [ships have over 40x as much]    Yes the game LOOKS good. Yes the game SOUNDS good.
    But!
    The game plays terribly.
    There are only three things to do:
    a) Go to towns where thieves steal your money and you can buy weak crew members who constantly try to fight (so therefore die)
    b) Go to islands where a large number of decently strong enemies are (with a treasure chest with like 5 gold in it [ships have over 40x as much]
    c) Or sink ships (which is only fun for about a half an hour)

    And here's why even they don't work often:
    a) Morale is terrible
    b) Hunger is terrible
    c) Your people do what they want, even with perpetual clicking (leading to weak people dying when enemies board your ship)
    d) and WORST OF ALL my 8GB RAM computer can't handle the larger battles.

    This game was fun for a few hours, but NOT worth the 10 bucks. Save your money, buy something better.    … Expand
  9. icextend
    Nov 16, 2019
    0
    to death because the game didn't stop during the building process. It also overwrote the autosave file that was left with another save 6 hours ago and a start boat. As already mentioned, you can't order your crew to perform a particular action. Regardless of whether everyone has the ability to clean or not, they just hang around without actions and only start cleaning when they've moved toto death because the game didn't stop during the building process. It also overwrote the autosave file that was left with another save 6 hours ago and a start boat. As already mentioned, you can't order your crew to perform a particular action. Regardless of whether everyone has the ability to clean or not, they just hang around without actions and only start cleaning when they've moved to another location. The fight is total garbage because your crew members simply ignore the cannons or are stuck on your ship while you command them to attack. The captain can't move and give orders at the same time, which makes the cursor disappear when you move. It's an alpha, not a release even after 3 years and 2-3 patches. It does not belong to PS4.… Expand
  10. bastobasto
    Apr 15, 2018
    2
    Pixel Piracy in few words : Terrible control, exteme luck ( To the point where you can die 5 minutes after spawning due to not receving good loot ), a bad money system and bankrupted devs who stopped doing updates.
  11. Vectis99
    Oct 24, 2018
    1
    Shovelware marketed on a series of buzzwords with no content or development to back it up. Even setting aside the near total absence of content, the basic structure and appeal of the game could only lead to a design philosophy encouraging lots of tedious micromanagement, repetitive tasks, and lack of decision making. From an aesthetic point of view the game is very crude, gross andShovelware marketed on a series of buzzwords with no content or development to back it up. Even setting aside the near total absence of content, the basic structure and appeal of the game could only lead to a design philosophy encouraging lots of tedious micromanagement, repetitive tasks, and lack of decision making. From an aesthetic point of view the game is very crude, gross and bloated. Avoid if possible.… Expand