Captain Bones Review

This game is worth keeping an eye on, but do not spend your money on it at this time.

The game is just very unpolished. Clearly an early access game, but it is concerning that it is listed as a full release.

List of errors, not necessary bugs that I found in he first 60 minutes of playing. Nothing I found was game breaking, but just not a finished game. Should be placed back into early access until the game is more polished.

The are numerous spelling errors, not that my spelling is perfect.

The animations are very basic and at times, like fishing, annoying.

During the "tutorial" the item prompts, display over the tutorial text, making both unreadable.

While walking around you will receive a prompt to pick up items even when no items are there.

While chopping down trees you can walk away from the tree but continue to chop the tree down.

Item hit boxes are strange. During the tutoiral you need to hunt a snake. Mine was near a tree. When throwing the spear, the spear was hitting the tree hit box which was over lapping the snake. What I saw was a spear floating in mid air right in front of the snake.

With most "crafting" games the tutorial will have you build things like wooded swards, spears and hammers, but this games has you find them. Kind of goes against the whole crafting genre.

Crafting is done with the blueprint style, where you place the blueprint on the ground and build with the needed resources. Most game that do it this way allow you to start building the blueprint with the resources you have, and maybe you need to go and find any remaining resources. But this game you can not start building until you have all the needed resources. The problems is, in this game when you place the blueprint, the opacity is so low, in some locations, it is is very difficult to find where you placed the blueprint.

When you sail, you need to adjust the sails to catch the wind. The indication in most games would be that the sails are full and being pushed by the wind. In this game there is a percentage indicator in the bottom of the screen.

The fighting control is very minimal. It is very hard to tell when to strike and if the strike is going to hit. There is very little to no indication when to strike. You just hold a single button and hope it hits.

Many object animations have zero interaction. In the tutorial when the shark attacks, after kicking the shark, it swims through the middle of my raft to get away.

Some prompts are hard to tell what they mean. When sailing you press "E" to drop. What the heck is drop while sailing. When completing missions there are HUD indicators of where to go to complete the mission, but at times those indicators disappear. You have to turn away from the indicator for it to show again to find out where to go.

There are positives about the game.

I like the throwing indicator when hunting. I like the items are effected by gravity.

I, for the most part, enjoy the sailing.

Not a fun experience. Very glitchy and reached a fullstop glitch at the Sunken Temple mission. If you are looking for a good pirate game besides Black Flag, play the SeaDogs games.