I agree with other reviewers, if you're really into Anno, this is probably not the game for you. I personally find Anno to be a bit much, especially after a long day of responsibilities, and this game scratches the itch while still being casual enough (it also costs way less). It reminds me a lot of Sid Meier's Pirates, with less complex battles and city building. I will say, if you like a challenge, this game isn't going to provide much. But if you like pirates, city building without too much resource management and the occasional simple battle, you'll enjoy Republic of Pirates.

There are still places where the game is a little lacking, but it has a ton of potential, and it is fun. I suggest giving the demo a try before purchasing, you'll get a good feel for the game there. They claim that the demo save will transfer to the game, but my save was corrupted, so keep in mind that you may have to start the game over if you do purchase it.

Republic of Pirates allows us to establish our little Pirate Kingdom in the middle of an unknown archipelago. The game is very similar to ANNO 1800, but set up in XVII century, which was the Golden Age of Piracy. So basically you just start to build your city here like it was in ANNO and fight with some other opponents, including pirates of our own, for the supremacy on the seas. I have played in total 4 hours through the main campaign and tutorial so far and would like to give my quick first opinion about this game, before you buy it.

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The game wants to be very similar to ANNO 1800, but is not on that level in my opinion. The user interface is much of a bad quality because some icons like setting up your settlement on an new island are not good-looking and the overall graphics are not that great. I have no issues with the look of the islands but the sea looks the same everywhere you look, you can see it's texturized and ugly and I'm playing on highest settings. The islands they just look OK, some palm trees here some rocks over there, nothing impressive. The arts on the loading screens are all nicely done however. But, comparing with ANNO 1800 there is still a big difference. Also it's not possible to rotate the angle of the camera vertically, so you can't make a good screenshot of your pirate lair, that's a shame!


You can't bind your ships to a hotkey in an RTS game. You can't even set the sailing route with your ship using Shift and RMB like in other RTS games, for him to go to one point and then to another one. This is a huge minus. However, there is a tactic map which you can use by zooming out or clicking on a little icon and then you can teleport your view to whatever location on the archipelago, that is very useful! But luck of binding and routing needs to be fixed!

EDIT: The developers added the option to assign a hotkey to a group of ships in the recent update, good work!


Here comes interesting. Most of my playtime with the campaign I was building my base in the ANNO grid style, building roads, warehouses for the goods and doing quests. But if you're looking for ANNO resources management you're in trouble, because all the resources are being gathered in one big cash! So no trade routes planning for your islands, not here. And while I gathered resources for the quests I did some ocassional fighting. To build the ship you need to hire a captain and you have a limit of captains which you cannot surpass. The captains each one have different perks f.e. they are better on some particular ships, can shoot one additional shot and so. They also have their own level and damn it's raising quickly, so maybe some balancing needs to be done here. Also you can't choose different perks for them when they level up, it's just those three little starting perks. Going somewhere turned into a nightmare: some ships interfered with the movement of other ships while sailing with a huge convoy. In the middle of the fight every ship has a special ability he can use and if you have like 5 ships you control you can spam these 5 abilities pewpewpew and you win the fight. You have no option to change the type of the cannon for the ship, to shoot with the grapes, chopsticks or bombs! Also, no boarding at all in a pirate game? Boarding was very important, you can't just going sinking ships when you can capture them, they are so precious! Please consider adding it to the game, you could make an option to get some crew from the free workers from the island, make some of the higher worker classes to be better fighters, add fighting weapons like sabers, muskets and the whole production chain for them, use your imagination!


I liked the OST in general, it's sometimes very similar to ANNO titles but I have found some annoying issues as well, like music suddenly disappearing and another tune playing next. This was very weird. Also the music while in battle is way too loud comparing to the normal music, I don't know for what reason! The music while hiring captains in taverns also too loud and not seamless, usually distracting the player.


Not a bad game, but definitely has some issues, just needs some polish and love from the developers and will be a nice ANNO killer, in the world of Pirates. I want to give this a positive review because I really believe they will make a decent pirate game at final and lets hope so! 8/10

So I've never played Anno. In fact my experience with pirate RTS games is really limited.

However, I can still recognize a rather good game. This one isn't super complicated and diverse. It's not something that requires you to pay super close attention too like Anno or Crusader Kings.

It's a simple easy to understand RTS in the style of olds chool RTS games with a pirate skin.

Despite it not being as grandiose as Anno or others, it's still a really well designed game. In terms of sound design, gameplay, tutorial and others.

And it's only charging 25 dollars. I think in terms of price, you're getting far more than you pay for. It's fun, it's engaging, it's interesting and it's not broken and you're not getting ripped off.

As far as I'm concerned that's reason enough to give the game a chance. I really liked it and enjoyed it and I think it's a pretty damn good pirate simulator game.

if you'd like a more in-depth look at the gameplay with more information feel free to check out my review on my YouTube channel (Link below).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDp75yKVOxU

otherwise, thanks so much for reading and I hope I managed to help some of you out there spend your money wisely.