Don't Sink

This feels like an untested, unpolished, not optimised port of a mobile or console game. The first sign for that is, that during character creation you have a keyboard on screen, which you can navigate with an invisible mouse cursor or the arrow keys. At least the physical keyboard also works.
But the in game controls are on some other level of bs.
Esc doesn't close menus, you have to use backspace. Why?
For users of non English keyboards y and z are swapped. Not too bad, just change it, right? Wrong! I don't know if it's laziness or arrogance but this is one game with the great design choice of not letting the player adjust the controls to their needs.
At least there is an option to make the cursor visible. Buuut it doesn't work.

Alright, the game still looks nice and might me fun after I've gotten used to the worlds second dumbest set of controls. So I started playing.
The first quest is do buy supplies. For some you get a recommended amount, for other you don't. Guys.. It's two minutes into the game, how should anyone know, what to do? But ok, just buy some and hope it'll be enough.

While moving around the island there is a graphical design, which is odd and i personally absolutely hate: The character is not centred on the screen. So every time you switch directions the camera jerks around to adjust for the distance.

Headache aside, let's move on. The next quest is to complete all construction on your island. Feels like a quest for way later, as you don't have the cash to do it.

Alright.. then..set off to the sea? Living the pirate life? Don't know. After selecting the next island on the map using the invisible cursor the game crashed.

All in all one of the worst gaming experiences I've had in a while and I really regret not having tested this game earlier, so I'd be eligible for a refund.

Please devs.. this game looks absolutely charming and has a lot of potential I'd like to explore. Centre the character and make these damn controls free to change. WASD QE and mouse is a standard most people find pleasant.

Aaaarrrrrr matey! it be a goodin

Interesting gameplay for a 2D sidescroller, I'd give it a go.

Unfinished and abandoned

I have always been a fan of pirate games since forever and seeing that this game is inspired by a bunch of my other favourite pirate games, I knew I had to try it out.

The game features a pixel art style with very simple mechanics of taking your ship to do quests, delivery jobs, governing the lands and sailing the seas.

I think this game has much potential to build more depth to certain features of the game such as governing the lands. I was quite excited to find out that you could govern lands but I was quickly disappointed due to the lack of depth for it. There wasn’t much benefits into governing the lands (for me) in which, I just did delivery jobs till I got my man of war ship.

I also encountered crashes when I wanted to undertake a deliver jobs in one of the lands. Restarted the game, press on the delivery job and crashed again.

In short, it’s a 3/5 for me