Sid Meier's Pirates!

Man what a nostalgia trip, I used to play this game on CD! Still holds up, it's pure unabashed fun between the sailing, sword-fighting, and general feeling of adventure. 10/10 soundtrack, 10/10 game. Few games have you become totally mentally enveloped in the romantic and adventuresome spirit of being a pirate. it's just pure fun.

Also all of the governors' daughters' beauty scores are ranked by how much cleavage they show. Sid Meier, you absolute scoundrel.

Best classic pirates game! The story and game mechanics are still the best. Surprisingly nobody makes a remake of that with the same game play. Instead other games make it more simplistic or introduce something which is not enjoyable. The game is playable on Steam Deck with community joystick layout.

Great gameplay, fun and simple, pirates on pixels 20 years back in the future ;-)

A Classic for sure, great combination of all the pirate life has to offer, always wished another game would have one upped this one but I never found it

At 33 years of age, I am closing in on the end of my life. However, it is important to tell the tale of the generations that came before our current one. This game was an incredible achievement for it's time, and its mechanics are easily graspable for future generations to understand and take advantage of. The theme of pirates is romantic and timeless. You can journey the gulf and choose your own adventure. The experience is up to you, adventurer.

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It's an old, repetitive game. But, if you're looking to shut off your brain and grind, it's pretty good. I've 100% it about 4 times.

So the games does not work and steam does not supply a solution, not first game they sell knowing it will not work. Wasting your time buying it. In my case it crashes immediately on starting it. Directx init error, even if you install directx separately does not work.

This game is great, very great, the thing is you can do anything you want in his game that involves piracy, theres all sorts of battles to fight, missions to do, ships to buy, its a great game. However, after playing for 50 odd hours i learnt this isint a pirate rpg game but a daughter rizzing simulator.

10/10 game would recommend

Didn't know what to play. decided to pick this game. Best decision ever. FUN FUN FUN

One of the first open world games and still my favourite game of all time. Adventure on the high seas, scurvy romance and plundering, what more could you ask for?

Still the best pirate game out there even 20 years later. Always hoping for a sequel

Still the gold standard for pirate games almost 20 years later.

Updated version of a beloved game however the graphics are the best thing I can say about it. Looks like it should be all the fun of the original but very disappointing delivery. The dance is utterly frustrating for no reason and the game play itself has lost the appeal in the relaunch. Don't waste your money if your looking for a nostalgic experience.

This brings nostalgic memories back. Even though the settlement combat is different from the original, it is still a lot of fun. I personally enjoy using mods, but even the vanilla play is a lot of fun. It's also more difficult than I though, but like I said. It's still a lot of fun.

Enjoy yall.

Whilst it does get boring at times, and trading isn't really worth it, you can still get many hours of fun from the game!

most replayable game of my life, idc how simple it is i love it. Shout out to 5yr old me who kept crashing and sinking ships and cried about it back when we had the disc

Interesting to play. Ability to change difficulty keeps it interesting.

While a bit dated, this game still holds up game play wise. There's tons of mini games you won't even find till halfway through and a ton of different ways to play!

its a classic. still good.

DO NOT BUY (or at least be informed before purchase)
I really enjoyed the original. I think I still have it on an old XP PC gathering dust in my home office. I bought this during the steam sale and was hoping to enjoy it again. However two issues make it just about unplayable for me.
1. It runs way too fast on modern computers. It is difficult to steer or do sea battles due to ship moving like time has been sped up. I THINK I remember an option in the original game so speed up or slow down time at sea but I can not find it in this version. I see others complaining about this online.
2. The key bindings are rather horrible and there is no in game way to change them. I see a couple of old mods out there that change some of the keys, but predetermined, not to just anything you want. And the predetermined settings offered are not what I want.
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If anyone knows how to fix these issues I'd love to know about the fixes. Google / reddit / etc were not much help.
I would return the game but I got it during the black friday sale for $1.99 so I'm not going to bother. I still have slim hope maybe I'll run across a fix(es).

1. Swoon pretty ladies
2. Impress their dads
3. Sword-fight badies
4. Find buried treasure
5. Get more spice than Timothy Chalamy

simple and fun, with a semi-history lesson.

a classic for its time; if you played the original on console, you will miss having a controller to use. there are a few changes from what I remember but its still very enjoyable. I recommend some mods to help update it and add a few quality of life improvements (don't expect a miracle, there is only so much you can do without a total remaster).

I actually played the OG game on the Apple II GS on Floppy Disc. This recreation is wildly loyal to the OG game in every conceivable way.

I have no idea why Sid Meies chose PIRATES, but he did a bag up great job of an update which still works today.

Still holds up, and surprisingly stable without any modifications. Had only a single crash so far, while changing resolution. Took a few attempts but worked when I did it in the main menu.

Otherwise very stable on Win10

one of the best pirate games to have ever been created.

This was one of the first games I ever got to play on PC back in 2000's and it was simply amazing, casual and fun. Nowadays it feels dated and the gameplay loop is also unfortunately rather repetitive and boring. The ship battles are still the most engaging and fleshed out aspect of the game. (6.9/10)

This game was my childhood, still plays great

A pirates life for thee.

May have not aged perfectly,but still a fairly decent pirate game vs it's many newer attempts at the genre which imo fail to be fun even Sea of Thieves.

Even almost 20 years later this is the best Pirate game every made.

classic, that will stand the test of time.

I played this game in with a Commodore 64 and spent hours. Now, this new version I don't get. It's too sloppy. Don't recommend it.

I just wish it had more where are my pirate games what happened? Are any of the new ones even worth it I prob put like 700 hours into this game back on cdrom or whatever lmao.

Shiver me timbers and hoist the mainsails, there's booty abroad, ripe and ready for plunder. Avast me hearties, if ye've an inkling of the pirates life in ye then get this classic.

Satisfying and simple gameplay loop, charming game, aging well.

It's a fun game and it is always good to be a pirate!

Easy game controls and covers a wide period, higher levels with mutinous crews and stronger enemies still a challenge

This is the best pirate game i have ever played. I wish they would remaster or remake this with updated graphics and some new feature but largely remain the same. Its WELL worth the $9.99. Id pay $60 for this if i had to.

I played the original Pirates on NES. When this beauty came out, I was among the first. We had a tidy little community at Hooked On Pirates. (Google it. It's still there.) This is the fifth computer I've played this on and yeah, just a tad over twenty years now. Get this. It's a marvelous diversion, fun and fabulously entertaining. There's even a ton of mods to go along with it. Yarrrrr.

It's a CLASSIC! Incredible replayability. This game is FUN from the first battle to your final battle. Ship combat, hand to hand combat, making those dubloons rain, upgrading your ships, locating lost relatives, trying to meet up with the Govenors daughter. It's all in here.

It may be old but it's simply a CLASSIC!

amazing game yo

Classic game that scratches a particular itch no other pirate game quite manages to scratch. Simple and a bit repetitive, but just fun. Firaxis oughta make a sequel some day.

If you stretch your monitor screen size via the Nvidea Control Panel Settings you can still have fun with this old game.

There's really not much to say about this game. It's old, a bit clunky, but it's also a lot of fun to play. It's been a favourite of mine for decades, since I played it on an old commodore back in the late 1980's. Yes, I'm that old! There are more challenging and graphically superior pirate games around, and they're worth playing. But so is this one, because it's simply enjoyable, and I have a bit of a binge on it every so many years. So if you're a bit young at heart, or just like simple adventure, treat yourself.

Love this game, I remember playing it on the Commodore 64 system! Game runs good on windows 11, with one hitch. I have to disable the antivirus program to get the sound to work, that doesn't make sense to me, but it's what works. If you are having problems with sound not working in game, try back out of the game and turning your antivirus program off. Just don't forget to turn it back on when you are done playing.

true nostalgic to childhood

Fun game that I can't help but keep coming back to.

Hours of fun and history.

This is my fourth copies of the game. (Started with the 5.25", to 3.5", and to now digital) Even the game play, graphic, sound, music, etc are all outdated but this game is a CLASSIC. Always fun to go back and play it again.

This has been one of my favorite games since childhood! A good challenge with a relaxing atmosphere and easy-to-learn mechanics. Sometimes, people do look at you funny when they see the beautiful governor's daughters though...

RERELEASE! :D

I capture the enemy ship, and then I wiggle my butt in celebration