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Worth it for turn-based tactics fans who want a short, budget-juggling naval campaign and can forgive repetitive encounters.
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About Pirate Code
The ship-buying math is the best part of this game, and that is meant as a compliment. Every gold piece you pull off a defeated pirate is a fork in the road: a second hull now, a better crew for the hull you already have, or a captain who trains that crew into something that actually survives round three. Combat itself is clean turn-based positioning, and it rewards you for thinking about who fires first rather than who has the bigger numbers. Circuit Hive kept the scope small and the loop tight, and the RPG layer (crew progression, captain specializations) gives runs a shape that pure tactics games often miss. Where it disappoints is presentation and variety. The encounters start repeating sooner than you want, the interface asks you to remember things it could just show you, and there is no multiplayer to stretch the systems further. This is a single-player, achievements-and-trading-cards indie from 2018, not a genre landmark, and it plays like one. But if you want a compact strategy game you can finish over a couple of evenings without a wiki open, the fleet management holds up.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Processor
- 1.0 GHz
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- OpenGL compatible GPU
- Storage
- 230 MB available space
- Sound Card
- OpenAL compatible
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- 2.33 GHz
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- nVidia or ATI accelerated 3D video card
- Storage
- 230 MB available space
- Sound Card
- OpenAL compatible
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Game Info
- Developer
- Circuit Hive
- Publisher
- Circuit Hive
- Release Date
- Apr 24, 2018