Sid Meier's Pirates!

Owned this game back in the day on DVD. Bought it on sail,...,er, sale. (See what I did there?). Still fun. A more lighthearted kid-friendly alternative to Assassin's Creed Black Flag, but still totes full of buccaneering fun.

I HAD THIS GAME ON DISK AND ON STEAM it 2025 an this is still the best pirate game

Sweet game. Unmatched by copykatz.

I played the old Sid Meier's Pirates on Atari in the 80s and the "gold" version on PC/DOS in the 90s. This Firaxis/2K recreation is true to the original, looks good and still great fun to play 20 years after it's release.

Pirates provides the player with layers of quests and achievements to be pursued in tandem. From revenging the ill deeds of the evil Marquis Montalban to capturing cities, finding a suitable wife befitting your social standing to influencing the colonial landscape of the 17th century Caribbean islands and the Spanish Main. All of this laced in with the everyday plunder and pillage of a pirate fighting for influence and wealth against Captain Kid, Henry Morgan and Captain Blackbeard to name a few.

Firaxis/2K - Please release a remake of Sid Meier's Covert Action!

Played this about 15 years ago when I was a kid and decided to pick it up again. It's gameplay loop is still very fun and there is some replayability with mods profiding new maps etc.. Also, install the hd mod. It's a shame there never was a sequel.

I had played this game over 20 years ago and it was a sequel to Pirates from the microprose days. I think a classic from the early 90s.

this game is a classic and it is due a remastering, when this game first came out, wide screen monitors were only just coming onto the market, so the picture is 4:3 ratio.

i had bought the game again on steam, so I don't need to find the cds or the manual to enter to key in to install.

The game is typical Firaxis, it seems to have a lot of bugs that need fixing. It would be nice to get a update to fix all the bugs. One my own pc the game would slow down due to the graphic drivers.

the game is about a young man who becomes a pirate and he has to rescue his family who were captured by a evil count. the game is a seafaring trading game, where you have to recruit a crew keep them happy with gold and plunder and go on quests to find your missing family and hunt down pirates, so it is trading game with bounty hunter missions and you develop skills like dancing and dating the govenors daughter and sword fighting other pirates,

for me this game needs to be revisited and given the remastered treatment, so I can plan on a widescreen monitor, instead of bars on the side.

piss around in the caribbean during the 17th century to find your family who hasn't aged a day since you lost them, a bunch of misplaced hidden native cities, and to make the spanish wish you were dead.

A great comeback to the classic Pirates! from the 1980s.

This is still my favorite pirate game of all time. While Black Flag was great and Sea of Thieves was okay, they both distinctly lacked the level of player freedom allowed in Sid Meier's Pirates. I hate to say the funny line, but yeah, this game really does make you FEEL like a ship captain. While I've never been interested in the turn-based nature of the Civilization series, the real-time strategy involved in the combat here is far more engaging, and the management aspects involved in maintaining a healthy ship and crew over extended periods of time felt highly immersive. Discovering legendary pirates, buried treasure, lost cities, etc. are all highlights to the experience which provides so much hidden content. This game definitely holds a special place in my heart from my childhood, and I really wish that modern pirate games would take lessons from this one.

This game was awesome, I enjoyed sailing my ship around and destroying my enemies!

Every game is different and there are several different components and strategies to trial

It's a classic I fell in love with waaaaaaaay back on a Commodore 64. Still holds my interest. :)

I played this way back in the day on the original Xbox and it's still the goofy and fun game I loved. It could be nostalgia talking but I think the game looked better and was more fun on the Xbox, minus the dancing mini-games of course.

Even if it's true and the xbox version is better you can't mod it and dowloading custom flags and a dance automation game modification more than make up for it.

Some personal challenges to expand the playability are as follows:
1. Stick with your starting ship as long as possible.
2. Ditch your cannons and go for a melee only build.
3. Focus on cannons as much as possible and avoid melee.
4. Be practical and regularly change ships. Sailing east is annoying because of the wind, if I'm in a rush I'll switch to a sloop (it has invisible oars to go upwind) and literally sell my flagship, even if I have something like a Brig of War or a frigate. Don't get attached to ships.
5. Don't load a save when you lose, accept the consequences.

no game today can have such a charm. such a fun game

Amazing childhood game, aged pretty well too. Just be warned, the game is programmed and meant to be played with your keyboard numbad, and keys CANNOT be rebound.

Black Flag if they made the game design better

I've loved this game for many years, playing many, many hours of it. It's looking a little dated in 2025, but if you look past that, it's just a fun, casual game you can play for hours. Upgrade your ship. Engage in naval battles. Get in (simplified) sword fights. Grow your reputation and fortune. Eliminate the other pirates. About the only thing I don't enjoy is the dancing sub-game.

better than skull and bones

Still runs well on a modern system. Pure nostalgia.

its great

Hierarchy of pirate games:

1. Sid Meier's Pirates!
2. Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii
3. Sea of thieves
4. AC Black Flag
5. Ubisoft's pirated games
6. Ubisoft's other pirate game

great gameplay... the "love" part is a bit lame.. everyone hates dancing!

One of my fav childhood games but wheres the Japanese guy with the eyepatch? I hear hes everywhere

This classic is still fun years later and to be honest it is pretty hard! There is fairly high learning curve when it comes to sailing and if you don't figure out how to sail around as fast as possible there is very real chance you will die of old age before you can complete your quest. And you get slower as you get older too. I still have never beaten the big baddie because it takes so long to get to him I was just too old. Each play through is quick enough though. Even though it is quick there is still a surprising amount of content! Give it a try, you won't be disappointed.

with a wash of good pirate games now a day, the classics remind us there is still some gold

Such a fun game, i really do hope they make a remake or remaster of it. We need good pirate games out there!

Repetitive, scaled poorly, dancing is the worst, not the good old original game I loved.

Closest thing to the perfect pirate game out there, despite it's age (It's actually an 80s game, this is a remake that's mostly faithful in terms of gameplay), it still holds up amazingly. If I'm looking to get into a pirate adventure on a game, this is the one to go to.

Would love to see a modern game take the economy and depth of this game and combine it with the supernatural elements, repeatable questing and treasure hunting of Sea of Thieves, action gameplay, Shantys and open world of AC4 Black Flag, and throw in a character creator and class system like Blood and Gold Caribbean, then boom, legitimately the greatest Pirate simulation possible. But alas, no major company seems to want to make a singleplayer pirate game these days. We be cursed with live service slop like Skull and Bones.

Skull and Bones 1/10 Sea of Theives 1/10 Black Flag 1/10 This thing 1000000/10

I am strongly biased when it comes to this game, because one of it's first pixel versions was the first computergame I ever played. The nostalgia associated with that is priceless, but even without that it's still a fun game to play.

That said: look at it's release date. That will tell you that the graphics are horrible and the controls are clunky.

I was worried that playing it again might taint the fond memories I have of the game from way back when, but my concerns were unwarranted. After all this time I could still enjoy playing it again.

Can it compete with any modern day game graphics- or gameplaywise? Absolutely not.
Is it still fun to play? Definitely.

If you enjoy watching the occasional black and white movie even though you know there aren't going to be any CGI in it: this game is one of the great classics in gaming history.

I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly … stupid.

great game, complete freedom to play in whichever way you like

Still the best pirate themed game out there. Even after more than 20 years, this game holds up and is still playable and fun, which says a lot for game design and development at that time. This game plays best if you have a 10-key numpad, but you can remap the controls if you need or want to do so. Only negatives I can see with this game are due to its age. The resolution is kind of low (but still good enough) and in a 4:3 ratio due to when the game was created. It also crashed once or twice as I was adjusting video settings, but since then it has been stable. Check this game out if you've never played it - it's a lot of fun.

Game was made a long time ago and it shows.
There are no adjustable keybinds and there is no widescreen support.
Still basic game play loop is fun.
Buy when on sale.

Still the most fun pirate game I have ever played. And I have played a few, looking for a comparable experience. And there just isn't one. Its not perfect, and it is showing its age. But god, its just so FUN.

Great fun, even though it tends to be repetitive. I've found lots of ways to play it, from acquiring loot, capturing cities, simple trading, to wooing governor's daughters. One of my favorite goals is to try to convert every city to the same nationality. (Yeah, old-school colonialism. It would be cool if you had the option to convert all cities to native villages. ) The combat (both naval and land-based) is relatively simple but bears some resemblance to real-world tactics. Just pure fun.

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A classic from many years ago that honestly still holds up in modern gaming. The graphics are certainly dated, but it still provides a fun and unique experience.

Classic graphics and solid game play

I have been playing this game since back in the 90s when it first came out. It has always been a favorite of mine. When I saw steam had it I quickly purchased it as it was a no brainer. This game is straight from the orignal game, pixels and same writing. NOTHING has changed, but that is the full charm of this game in my opinion. Very easy to learn, but takes hours and hours to master. There are several levels from beginer to very hard based on which time frame you pick to run your ship through. If you like pirates, historical based games and nostalgic games I would HIGHLY recommend you try this game.

I played this when I was like 9, and i'm more than thrice that age and still pull it up. People know Sid Meier's for their civilization games, but they really need to do a remaster - or even better a new came. Let's get a breath of the wild/tears of the kingdom style project for this game. don't change the mechanics too much... don't just want a Sea of thieves or whatever that FPS pirate ship game is. looks like a good game, but a sid meier's pirates should be a sid meier's pirates.

Wonderful game, great port. However there are some bugs with the resolution options and how the hud in the pc version scales. Super fun though

This is the best pirate life sim game that exists. Though I don't know if I can ever 100% it on a single save file I keep trying every so often.

Still holds up today. Loved it in the early '90's.

This is the 1st pc game I ever played and after having 500+ games on steam I can say this is in my top 10

Very good classic game!

it is fun and there is no die.

This has been one of my favorites since i first played the NES version wayback in the day. This is the best version with Pirates! Gold from the Genesis days being second in my mind.

A genuine classic time killer.

This game is everything Skull and Bones wishes it could be. Yes it's old. Yes the graphics are bad. Yes it's still a masterpiece. It's immersive as hell, and it literally gives you the entire Caribbean as your sandbox, with all the freedom to do whatever the fuck you want, just like a real pirate.