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Name of the app you are reviewing: Pirates Outlaws
Pirates Outlaws is from developer Fabled Game Studio, and was first released for mobile devices. The player is tasked with sailing to glory in a pirate-themed world, hopping from encounter to encounter within a series of different themed settings while earning treasures and boosting their reputation. Now, the title has received a PC release.
Review:
Rather than the free-roaming action of other pirate-centric games like Sea of Thieves, Pirates Outlaws takes its cues from other card-based roguelikes that have come before. An obvious example is the incredibly successful Slay the Spire, which Pirates Outlaws shares more than a passing resemblance to, while it also has similarities to post-apocalyptic deck builder Nowhere Prophet. Players will need to balance their deck well, allowing them to come up with strategies on the fly to try and get through battles quickly on their way to the boss of the map.
Where Pirates Outlaws finds success is by keeping its gameplay as fast as it can be. Its battles are quick and breezy for the most part, allowing the player to hop from island to island without spending too much time on any particular encounter. Whereas games like FTL: Faster Than Light allow players more time to immerse themselves in the game world, Pirates Outlaws keeps the action coming.
This was a clever choice for Pirates Outlaws, which lacks the world-building to give its setting gravitas and instead focuses on light-hearted fun. Elements like permadeath don't wear out their welcome too fast, as when a run ends in failure the player can quickly pick Pirates Outlaws up and go again without losing much by way of progress.
That's not to say that Pirates Outlaws lacks the brutal difficulty that keeps roguelikes engaging. Like all good roguelikes, a playthrough of Pirates Outlaws leads to failure more often than success, with the player needing to try again and get a better hand of cards, or get to the bottom of how to exploit a boss for maximum damage via debuffs, to make it through to the end. Meanwhile, the game's different enemy types and possibility of picking up random relics mean that the encounters along the way never turn into a chore.
Would you recommend this to other users? Yes as it is very addicting
Rating (1-5):
Pirates Outlaws is from developer Fabled Game Studio, and was first released for mobile devices. The player is tasked with sailing to glory in a pirate-themed world, hopping from encounter to encounter within a series of different themed settings while earning treasures and boosting their reputation. Now, the title has received a PC release.
Review:
Rather than the free-roaming action of other pirate-centric games like Sea of Thieves, Pirates Outlaws takes its cues from other card-based roguelikes that have come before. An obvious example is the incredibly successful Slay the Spire, which Pirates Outlaws shares more than a passing resemblance to, while it also has similarities to post-apocalyptic deck builder Nowhere Prophet. Players will need to balance their deck well, allowing them to come up with strategies on the fly to try and get through battles quickly on their way to the boss of the map.
Where Pirates Outlaws finds success is by keeping its gameplay as fast as it can be. Its battles are quick and breezy for the most part, allowing the player to hop from island to island without spending too much time on any particular encounter. Whereas games like FTL: Faster Than Light allow players more time to immerse themselves in the game world, Pirates Outlaws keeps the action coming.
This was a clever choice for Pirates Outlaws, which lacks the world-building to give its setting gravitas and instead focuses on light-hearted fun. Elements like permadeath don't wear out their welcome too fast, as when a run ends in failure the player can quickly pick Pirates Outlaws up and go again without losing much by way of progress.
That's not to say that Pirates Outlaws lacks the brutal difficulty that keeps roguelikes engaging. Like all good roguelikes, a playthrough of Pirates Outlaws leads to failure more often than success, with the player needing to try again and get a better hand of cards, or get to the bottom of how to exploit a boss for maximum damage via debuffs, to make it through to the end. Meanwhile, the game's different enemy types and possibility of picking up random relics mean that the encounters along the way never turn into a chore.
Would you recommend this to other users? Yes as it is very addicting
Rating (1-5):
