At first I was a little put off by it, after about 10 minutes though I was loving it. It's good now and easy to see so much potential. I don't know where the devs will take it but I'm sure that it'll be good. It lacks a basic tutorial, there are scenarios that will teach you some combat techniques but not one for the base game, like "this is where you get a contract. It needs a little polish, camping, how about an option to camp until the men are fully healed instead of just camping and checking the men and camping some more? Maybe I missed something there but if I did then that's all the more reason for a tutorial. Men need even more varied backgrounds, there are many that I've seen already but I don't like seeing 2 fishermen with the exact same back story.. Maybe a difficulty option too, it's not easy and some will love that but some won't :)


All of that said, I highly recommend this game. It's good now and should have a really great future.

This became my favorite game! It's brutal but when you are successful your feeling of accomplishment is incredible. It take a good time investment to learn it, I'd say 100+ hours of play just to be a fair player and at over 500 hours I am still learning new things with each play through. I can't recommend it enough.

11/21/18 - The new DLC coming out next week looks awesome! I can't express enough how much I recommend this game. Get the game now so you have some idea of what's going on prior to taking on the new DLC monsters which look very brutal. This is my favorite game.

11/30/19 - A year later and I still love this game!

11/24/21 - still easily one of the best games ever and never loses it's replayability.

I'm loving it. I wasn't a big fan of the first one either if you check out my review of it. This is much better.

What is bad or could be better? -
They really push the inclusion thing. WAY Over done. Every other man that my male character talks too shouldn't need to have it explained that I'm not flirting. Male strip dancers, Dudefest bathhouse etc. I try to just ignore it and get on to the fun stuff but it is over done. Maybe they should consider putting in the settings an option to tone down or turn up the sex, bi, gay, settings so that then everyone would be happy? just a thought.

If it had random ship spawns to fight, or maybe when you kill one another one spawns somewhere. As is there's a set number of ships in existence, once you kill them you'll be the only one on the seas and bored. I love the whole ship RPG aspect but it's too limited. I'd buy it and play it if they made a sandbox pirate rpg using the crew/ship mechanics here. Ship vs. ship needs work, boarding parties is great fun though.

Being able to check an option in difficulty settings for enemies to always scale up to your level is awesome. There's no waste of time fights that way as they can all be difficult if you let your guard down.

The inventory could work better, how? I'm not sure but it doesn't seem great to me.

That's it, I recommend it. I would've bought it on release if I realized what it'd be like.