Choice of the Pirate

Fun game but it is pretty short. Get it during a sale.

This game is beyond short. Don't let my hours fool you I left it open last night but finished it in a single sitting.

It is so incredibly short and seeks to cram its entire arc into a that blink of an experience. The result is everything is just thrown at you, a few minutes in you inherit a captaincy. A few minutes after getting your first ship, you've built a small fleet. Everything progresses as lighting speed and all of the major goals require no investment or effort, they just happen in your favor because there's no time for anything else.

A very confused storytelling experience.

A great game, if you like choose your own adventure kind of games, and you aren't lazy enough to read.
It is well-written, with plenty of interesting characters and choices to make. I really enjoyed replaying the game to discover all the possible outcomes.
If you are familiar with other Choice of Games titles, this one could easy be put among the best one.
If, however, you are new to this kind of games, and you like pirates, you won't be disappointed. Choice of the Pirate offers you a possibility to live your own adventure unlike any other.

I bought this game years ago and find myself still coming back to replay it, so I thought I'd leave a review. The pirate aesthetic is portrayed really well, with fleshed out descriptions and really in-depth lore and storytelling. Characters have their own agendas, your choices matter and you get to decide where your character's loyalties lie.

You can't explore everything the game has to offer in one playthrough, which gives you a lot of replayability. The game also allows you to lose without just getting a 'Game Over' screen - the consequences of failed encounters can sometimes continue to affect your journey many chapters later. Would recommend for anyone looking to play Captain for an immersive adventure on the high seas.

One of their better games. Nice bit of variability in play-style and choice-paths.

9/10 would yarr again.

I really enjoyed this game! The game does give you some options that are never followed up on (e.g. once I asked a fellow pirate for a favor in the future, but "the future" never came, and they never did repay me), and it seems like some choices which should lead to negative consequences don't actually have any consequences at all. Similarly, focusing on combat and negotiation seems to be the best combination of traits here, as the others aren't really all that useful and don't help you in the "boss" fight at the end, if you choose to go that route. It is, however, well-written, detailed, and a very nice read. It definitely is fun and adventurous! I've replayed it multiple times just to get different endings, see how the route takes me, etc. I'd recommend this title if you have an itch for pirates and like CYOA games.

I recently bought this game, it's the first Choice of Games product I've played and I've just finished my first play-through today! I think it's a decent amount of time to finish (I might be a slow reader) and won't fail to please. I'd be lying if I didn't say I wish there was more it was that good and having stats was pretty useful. This'll likely be one of my favorite RPGs from now on and despite all the text I'd highly recommend it's worth giving this game a shot! However there seemed to be something missing from the characters to me, can't pinpoint what exactly but it was something.

In short, I'd recommend this game to those who enjoy RPGs such as I do and I hope you'll equally enjoy this game as much as I did!

A surprisingly fun game! Only on my first run at the moment, but there is a very high replayability potential, and I already find myself wondering what other paths I can go down. Lots of customisation options with an interesting pirate story, the kind I have a big soft spot for.

Imo this is one of the best Choice of x games out there. The story is good and the universe is really nicely built. I think I've replayed it like six times at least already. It was also really cool how they included different genders and sexualities, we need more of that in games.

I think that I've been spoiled when it comes to Choice games. This game isn't bad on it's own, but when compared to other options it simply falls flat. I often felt a bit railroaded, and that my choices only barely mattered. When the game ended I thought I was only halfway through it, and the ending scene was entirely underwhelming. All in all, kind of a disappointing game.

Its a cool story, and though the chapters are short it does help the game feel like it always moved quickly and never drags. I did sometimes think there was an option or two missing from certain parts- whether because i hadn't done the preconditions or they werent included i don't know. While the choices do seem to customize the story, in my experience they don't seem to change it drastically, which i dont mind too much. Also i would have liked to be able to spend a bit more time allocating my funds when i returned to port, as i only finished the game with 12 ships, though i had over 5000 gold (in one part two ships cost 200 gold so i could have apparently had Quite the fleet).

All in all good fun, a lot of choices, and a quick experience that feels solid throughout, though ends somewhat abruptly.

This is my first Choice of Games text adventure game I have played. After spending many hours in this game, I decided to recommend this game mainly because the publisher provided a contact e-mail on its website and after I tried for many hours trying to get an achievement, I gave up and e-mailed the publisher for help in contacting the author Alana for hints in obtaining an achievement.

Both the publisher and author were very friendly and helpful and helped me obtain the achievement which I have added in on a published community guide and the game is relatively easy to finish and get all achievements within less than 10 hours.

A terrific little game with a fun and very well-designed branching narrative, delightful characters, and an intriguing overarching plot. There's an admirable commitment to diversity throughout, as well. Best of all, it's short, which means seeing all the branches isn't some eighty-hour commitment. I do wish there was more of it, but for the price and the likely minuscule development budget, it's quite impressive.

I've beaten it twice so far, and I'll be coming back for more. Highly recommended.

Fun, clever little story with a lot of options and different directions you can go in. Very enjoyable.

I very much enjoyed being able to choose my character and their romantic interests with at least some degree of precision, then have the story respect that choice (instead of just swapping out character names and pronouns to approximate it).

That said, $4 is about the right price for this game; that's about what I'd expect to pay for a short novel, and it's good for the 2-3 times I'll probably actually end up reading it. Much more expensive than that would be silly.

I am glad this game is so cheap as I would have been much more salty about how short it was. I'd advise anyone from purchasing unless they were looking for something different to play. Choice of the Pirate is a game centered around your choices you make in the storyline that ultimately effects the plot in the end... I had a lot of fun choosing and reminding myself to be wary of what I choose... but I gotta say that some of the choices I made didn't really seem to bite me in the ass in the end at all. I never heard that character at all ever again after that choice I had made, and I was really expecting them to come back later on and try to stab me in the back for it. It didn't happen though, which was disappointing. I liked being able to pick out my signature clothing as a pirate, however that "choice" seemed to be purely asthetic... I created my own piece of clothing and I expected the game to sorta "substitute" my choice within the conversation when it came to that point but it never happened. A lot of the characters in the game are meaningless and you won't really need to remember their names since you'll only interact with them two different times out of the whole playthrough. The "love interest" really isn't interesting. After hooking up the relationship really isn't brought back up in the story at all until the epilogue in the ending. Another thing, the whole "pirate king" title barer is a mystery.... but.... it's not... the story makes it painfully obvious from the very beginning who the pirate king really is..

I always liked books where you are the hero when I was younger I read many. I did not expect much from this game, but i was pleasently surprised by the quality of the tale in general, writhing, characters, plotlines etc. I found al that i loved from those books I used to read whithout the intricate stats you had to keep track of, only the pleasure of reading a good story that I could influence. Can't wait to get another one of those, but for now i'll just replay it... differently.
8/10

Also worth mentionning that the other games related to this one are very good.

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Closer home to the quality of Choice of Robots in terms of writing compared to more recent COG titles. Enjoyed it until the end, which seemed a bit rushed, but I'll reserve judgement on the premise that there are more endings, and I may have just got one of the less well written ones.

Worth the price imo, will update when I get another playthrough in.

I have played 100 minutes of this game so far, just starting chapter 6.

This is the first time i'm playing a text-based adventure game and I must say I'm hooked. So far, I've been reading an awesome story filled with posibilities and a slight flair of humor. You feel like most decisions you make really changes some aspects of the game.
For the amount of money this game costs, I'd say you shouldn't be afraid of getting ripped of if you're new to these types of titles. If you've played games like these before, then definitely don't hesitate!

Will be buying more of these titles from the developers.

Aside from generic high fantasy and superheroes, pirates seems to be a popular genre for CYOA works from Choice of Games. Several of their offerings already explore life and on the high seas. Not to disparage the other fine offerings already on hand but I hold the opinion that Choice of the Pirate is the best one of them yet.

For one, it presents a wide scope in the narrative with a meaningful choice between civilization and freedom. Neither side is shown to be an absolute good but rather present different views on what people value in life. It also has a strong Carribean feel with native magic being intrinsically tied to nature. The set pieces are fun, especially as you meet creatures like merfolk, sea monsters and ghost ships.

Overall it is well-written and a fun romp. Each playthrough takes approximately 40 minutes which is decent for a CoG title so no fear of a truncated game either. I won't lie, the previous two offerings from CoG did not impress me much. Heroes: Redemption was basically the author strongarming the reader into listening and playing along with the author's political views while Sea Eternal was kinda meh. Choice of Pirates on the other hand is a strong offering that ranks alongside some of their best works.