An 8-bit adventure about sailing the Atlantic Ocean - Inspired by the Oregon Trail.
Very Positive
524 Steam reviews
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Honestly a great cheap game with tons of content. Well done.
If Sid Meier's Pirates! and the Oregon Trail had a baby, this game would be the result.
After your first playthrough you will basically unlock the governor which is basically an instant win for anything and everything in the game. I actually just completed a run where I sailed from London straight to Nassau and made over $20,000 in the one trip and instantly sank 3 Spanish warships with the click of one button all in just 15 minutes. The only way you will really be able to get anything much out of the game is by playing in fantasy mode as the minister because you start off with so low assets that you must actively work to build yourself up with the main hardship being just keeping your crew alive. However, keeping your crew alive actually just hinders you instead of helps you because the only bonus they provide is reloading cannons faster; which is useless cause you can win just about every combat in the first volley. The con they provide is rapidly eating your food which for the most part must be sustained by fishing which actually encompasses a vast majority of the games activities. With a galleon expect every start to be acquiring 60 harpoons and play a minigame where you toss your harpoon at fishes and turtles jumping out of the water having to hit 600 fish at a rate of maybe 1 fish every 5 seconds just to fill your food stores. I however don't feel like being a lone man on a raft after purposefully killing off my crew mates playing fisherman and grinding money while getting half of my everything stolen every single voyage by an unavoidable ghost ship.
Yarrr, Davey Jones paid me crew a visit at the start AND end of the same voyage. We were on our way to join the pirates but we owed a debt to Mr. Jones, and he does not take his debts lightly. We be dead now. Back into the sea we shall sail once more.... *click's 'new game' button*
Whole lot of charm in this game, tons of fun!
Amazing pirate sim, minigames are fun, appreciate the humour, easy to understand, can't wait to find the one piece
Good. No complaints.
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
What will we do with a drunken sailor?
Early in the morning
its good
Fun Oregon Trail like that takes liberally from Sid Meier's Pirates. Aesthetics are charming and there's a good amount of content too - what more do you want?
Extremely fun little game. Starting out for the first time can be difficult, but once you get the hang of it (or unlock a class that starts with a decent amount of money) it becomes easier. Tip for starting players: having enough Oil Skins for your crew prevents them from catching certain diseases.
The Caribbean Sail is a love letter to the time of the Oregon Trail with a pirate twist. I only put in 13 hours or so and feel like I've run a majority of the game at length. It's not super difficult and is relatively easy to pick up. The art feels unique and developer is still heavily involved in the games oversight and I feel like that is not seen often enough. It's clear they truly love their game. If you like pirates, sea shanties and boat combat wrapped in a pixel art package look no further than The Caribbean Sail!
Yarrr
航海模拟器
Hilarious, amazing, makes me want to collect all the shanties and make the ships fly.
Overall, this is a pretty interesting game similar to Pirates of Sid Meier, or Sea Dogs. I did not expect much from it, and was pleasantly surprised. Fun, each run feels different, and you get a lot of content too. Give it a go, you'll love it if you enjoy pirate-themed strategies.
Watching Benjamin get speared by a narwhal was worth my £2.99 alone
The Oregon Trail for those who like being a pirate and sailing:)
Absolute banger game for sure
So much to do in fantasy mode and so much to explore
Fantastic
If you want adventure, i can only recommand this game.
Made by a single-developper that did put his life (literally) into it makes it alive, you will be amazed to find a lot of ingenious mechanics inside the game, the gameplay is really nice and while controlling your boat you feel everything about it
A game like no others that must be tested!
I had 2 members of my crew get impaled by narwhals in a span of 15 seconds and it was hilarious. Gregory always finds a way to show up 5000 miles from where he died. 1000/10.
fun game and stuff
Horrible controls. The devs waste your time at every turn.
It's Oregon Trail but not quite as good. The game yearns to kill you in a million ways, and the issue is that there's not enough incentive to fire this up and restart a run. It's got some positives going for it; catchy tunes, charming nostalgia for 8-bit games. But I can't help but feel like it just wastes my time. It scratches that itch when you want to sail the seven seas, but isn't rewarding enough.
Lots of systems to learn without any guidance. You learn by dying. The main loop centers around a fishing minigame (which is fine), but good luck figuring out combat, fleeing, why narwhals stabbed your crew to death, and why you couldn't fee those enemy pirates. Normally I wouldn't go out of my way to thumbs down a game, but it doesn't deserve 90+% approval.
Mild thumbs down
Arrrrrrr as well as Aaaaaaarggghhhh too!
I´m gonna be a captain and a mighty pirate, too.
Well, nope, you wont.
At least not that easily.
This aint a friendly game, it´s coming for you each time you feel save and sound.
You´ll die, like alot and in multiple ways.
You might even sink your galleon whilst in battle with a pirate sloop
BUT
you can name someone of your party 'Bob' if you´re that kinda guy.
And yes, he will be to one that always gets sick first and who´s last feeling better.
Lemme tell ya a story here:
There´s been one time, that one time when Bob aint beein sick.
But he got killed be a narwhale while spearfishin.
That´s that game for you I tell ya.
Have fun, matey, while on your way down to Davy Jones n Spongebob
Really like this game and my kids enjoyed them a lot. I just wish it could have a better steam deck support and also to release a mobile version so it can be played on the phone.
I lost both of my arms and both of my legs and was still able to sail. 10/10
It's overall a pretty great game. Basically The Oregon Trail game but on water and across the world (with limitations) and with a better story. You can turn off fantasy mode, which is great if you want more historical accuracy, but it cuts down the majority of what you can do.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
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☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☑ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Clearly the Dev loves pirates and the Oregon trail they love sea shanties and 8 bit music just a pleasant gameplay loop clearly inspired by Black Flag. Pirates however no dancing mini games.... But fantasy mode is fun and the mouse :)
Charming
The Caribbean Sail is a lot of fun if you're into retro style games. This reminds me of so many DOS games I played as a kid. It's a simple gameplay loop but it's a lot of fun, and both the fantasy and historical storylines are interesting. I have yet to survive long enough to beat either (and don't let my logged playtime fool you, I played it offline for quite a while during an internet outage the day I got it.)
One piece of advice for any new players - get good at the fishing minigame. Sell your food at port or to other fish, buy enough harpoons to max out, and then when you leave dock immediately fish until you're stocked with food again. This is an easy way to get a few extra dollars when arriving at port, and if you're good at the minigame, it never costs you a single harpoon.
Love it! Oregon Trail vibes, simple game mechanics but not so simple that you get bored. Lots to do, ships and starting paths, etc.
Bite-Sized pirate adventure! plays in a similar fashion to Oregon Trail.
It seemed really charming, so I picked it up when it went on sale. Great soundtrack, I liked the visuals and theme, so let's go.
Start out with a small fishing ship. Buy a couple cannons so I can defend myself from any pirates. I fish near the shores of England, but when I want to go sell them in port for better stuff, I can't. Well, whatever. I set sail to Portugal.
On the way there I find a friendly English war ship, I play a game of Liar's Dice and somehow win after not understanding the rules for the first few rounds.
I set sail once more, but oh no, a Spanish war ship on the horizon. No way to avoid encountering them -- it is a 2d game after all, and ships don't jump -- and they open fire. With no credible amount of defenses I surrender. Which results in my captain and crew being hanged for the trouble.
The thing that crushed all motivation I'd had to try and give them what for, I get an achievement titled "Get **** on". *Sixteen minutes* into the game and the dev is telling me to piss off and do something else. There's no "you can actually take them on if you try" or "buy more cannons if you can", no, it's "♥♥♥♥ off and die".
I'm not sure I want to continue. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. It seems charming though. But I can't in good conscience recommend a game that doesn't want to be played.
I just recently had the privilege to speak to one of the people behind the game through email and can only say that not only does the game deserve praise but as do the developers!
This game, though simple in concept, is still so novel and scratches just the right itch and I can't wait to see more from these people!
I do quite like this game...
It's great!
You're not allowed to have fun until you get good at the fishing minigame, but the adventure snowballs after that.
Both the realistic and fantasy mode are engaging.
The game's not too difficult, but you'll still get screwed over once in a while, in the genre's true fashion.
This is so much fun!!!
good
WEE
I love the Caribbean Sail so much. There just aren't that many games that feel like playing Oregon Trail for the first time again. There's depth in these waters, if ye seek it.
i absolutely suck at this game yet i still love it
if you like oregon trail with modernized/steamlined game mechanics with a pirate/age of sail twist, get this. maybe on a sale like how i did, but i'd still say it's worth it enough as it is at $15
Overall this is very enjoyable, solid six hours. Some of the mechanics ask to be refined, meaning after I beat the main history I don't want to play it again, but that being the main problem means it's a fine game.
PD. extra point for The Devil's Thrill playing when the devil speaks to you.
Great game!
Замечательная игра
mucho fun
Loved It
It's a very charming game, it even made me learn how liar's dice works lol. The gameplay is simply and easy to get into, and best of all, my toaster can run this game. After a bit it does get quite repetitive. 8/10
I'm no good at it but it's awesome!
Extremely fun
As Someone With A Boat Hyperfixation This Game is A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BLESSING! IT EVEN HAS FRIGATES!!!!!!!!! MY FAVRATE TYPE OF BOAT
크윽 한국어가 있었다면 ㅠㅠ
FTL but ships, but worse.
Nearly a great game, but has some great moments. Definitely worth to have something like this in your collection because it is well crafted, thoughtful and has a heart of gold.
The Caribbean Sail is a charming, retro styled sailing adventure that I’ve grown fond of. It’s simple but hits the right spot when I’m in the mood for something lighthearted and Silly. There’s a surprising amount of humor and dark twists thrown in. The random events at sea keep me wondering what's next? and I like that I can sail with or against the wind, never quite knowing what’ll happen next. The unpredictability of my voyages keeps me coming back. It’s a small game, but it nails the feeling of a perilous sea journey, and I find myself enjoying it for what it is. A quirky delightful sailing experience.
A very chaotic roguelike akin to Oregon Trail. After a few hours of play, I think I've only seen less than half of the content. Others argue $15 is too much, but I think the price is just right for the time, and replayability is pretty high given different loadouts you can do. If you're ever just frustrated with the game, you can use Steamboat Willie to get past a bunch of events that you usually die to in your first few games. But I found myself going back to games where I start out with less money and abilities just to see how far I could get.
There's an 'Easy' and 'Hard' mode, and Hard is the intended difficulty (called Sailor, you don't save progress after dying, but get more rewards). I thought there was no sense in losing progress but found out quickly I wanted to start from scratch each playthrough anyway, so Hard is definitely the difficulty the game is designed for.
I recommend turning 'Message in a Bottle', one of the coolest and funniest "mechanics" of the game.
If you do your absolute best, each run is 30 minutes; I did 5-6 runs before I wrote this review and I'm pretty convinced this was worth the price and time spent overall.
Outside of that, play it. I like it.
great story mechanics and more
It's pretty fun, but not worth the price tag at 15 bucks, IMO.
This game is so much fun, very in-depth and has a lot of replay value. I've had a blast with it!
oregon trail was way less tedious than this, this game is unfun sadly... its not even low on content, its just an awful mount of grind to get the content which is planly boring and addin little to no mechanics to it. Unbalanced and grind. it is overpriced imho.
Way, way, waaaaaaaaaaay too expensive for something with so much repetitive tedium.
This is a very fun game! It has SO many tasks, so even if you don't like one, you will like the others. Personaly, I enjoy all tasks, and I also like getting the achievments, they are challenging, but not so much they are unfun. I would give this game a 10/10!
Cute little sailing game where you can name your crewmates after your friends and laugh when you chuck them overboard after they succumb to dysentery. Definitely not entirely calm waters as I have not only been killed by other sailors and pirates but my own crewmates mutinying on me, complete with a pistol duel!
Addictive and fun, what else is there to say? It's basically Oregon Trail on the high seas with sea shanties.
TLDR ; I bought this for the Steamboat Willie meme character and discovered an amazing management roguelike.
This isn't just a fishing game or a sailor-themed waiting whilst traveling game. You gotta be on your guard at all times, buddy. I play perma-death only and so far I've gotten the gist of it (200+ days sailing everywhere and still going) : you can barely get to survive if you really manage your ship & all, but it's possible.
The unlocks make this game faster to restart without dying instantly. The only thing I disliked at first was the gambling dice mini-game ("Liar's Dice") because I didn't bother understanding how it worked. But believe me, going for broke and understanding this game WILL save your sorry meat cushions. Anyways, I strongly recommend this game. Don't let the first few permadeaths discourage you ; consider them as a tutorial for hard mode.
Also this is for the developpers if they wanna hear about something they can improve : please allow the starting location & flags to be customized!!! If you could unlock new starting locations, flags and skip the first cutscene quicker, I'd really really go out of my way to recommend this game.
Also : I had a message in a bottle tell me "ONE PIECE IS REAL". I wonder, then... CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER?
On my first time as a captain, I lost all of my money on «Liar’s dice» and then my crew starved in port. This game is pretty funny. Don’t expect a long journey, it’s more of a comic little pass-time where you see how far you make it before disaster strikes.
It is [b]not well-optimised for the Steam Deck[/b], as it burns through the battery, somehow. Also, the controller isn’t programmed by default, but that’s not too hard to do. I’ll try to share my layout as soon as I figure out how to.
This is a fantastic timekiller, I enjoy the game a lot. That being said, I do think the $14.99 pricepoint is too high. 5 bucks on sale? Yeah, pick it up. $10? Maybe if you reallllllly are into this stuff. $15? That's a big stretch.
Good game though.
Oregon trail but pirates
Oregon trail: pirates
OOhh im popeye the sailor man toot toot im strong as a ox cuz i shoot me cannons at random ships and they shoot back and then my ship sinks im popeye the sailor man!
A fun cross between Taipan and Oregon Trail with some arcade elements mixed in. The graphics are potato (basically CGA if you know WTH that even means). The real fun is in the random events.
It certainly says something about the game that in my last playthrough I thought the most desirable starting perk was 'Crew members probably won't die after an amputation.'
I enjoyed playing this game. I've been looking for a good pirate game to play and I didn't know it would be in this format. I enjoyed both modes and both difficulties. The only bad part about the game was Sailing all the way down to shanghai in a galleon for transporting luxuries. I found myself just staring at the screen or really wanting to look away because it was so boring. I quickly got to a point where I could just sink everything and even go through the Reefs without even looking how deep they were. Every port you show up to no longer has anything for you to do except for pay off the countries or scrape barnacles. The fishing was a bit tedious but I think that's just because I couldn't budget the ships money the right way. With that being said I think the game is great and i enjoyed even the barnacle scraping. Nice sound track too but it started to drive me nuts by the end of the game.
Don't know why this took to long for me to review. This game had saved me from boredom many a time journeying on planes trains and, indeed once, a ship. It's a love letter to games like the Oregon Trail, where punishing mechanics and difficult decisions serve to illustrate the actual difficulty of seafaring at the time. Would most definitely recommend.
(Also grind out XP by [spoiler] playing in Fantasy mode and acquiring a net ASAP, catch the mermaid and gain the conch item. Then find wherever the furthest point from your next port, plot your course. Then use the conch and you'll get XP relative to your original destination not how far Atlantis is. Rinse and repeat as you WILL die a lot. [/spoiler])
pirates
argh
Good for small doses of seamen
why does every game i play have to have stopped development a few months before i get it.
Brings me back to the days of playing The Oregon Trail :)
The Caribbean Sail is an absolutely delightful game filled with style and heart. I have had an absolute blast with it and it is incredibly addicting to play, die horribly and try again. Absolutely would recommend to anyone who likes the Golden Age of Sail and high seas. Also caught a mermaid, listened to a shell, met king Poseidon then died of dysentery 10/10 game.
flying fish save me.... save me flying fish...
This is by far the best game ever no matter what. Very impressed. 😁
It is good game. Like the Oregon Trail but better. Oh yeah, and it has ships.
If you love pirate games this one is for you!
Despite getting this game because of Steamboat Willie, its good game to spent time on. You never know what will happen on sea. Realist or Fantasy, choose your path.
Get this is you've always wanted Oregon/Organ Trail with pirates and sailors.
Nothing like rocking out to 'British Grenadiers' before getting blasted into oblivion by a Spanish Galleon or surrendering to be hanged for piracy, or catching the plague and dying, or being shot by mutineers, or sinking on a reef, or getting hilariously drunk to the point you get tipsy by proxy, or slowly starving because you spent the entire time trying to harpoon a hat off of a fish...
But hey, it isn't all gloom and doom. If you're stressed out, just go fishing in the waters near Iceland or Nassau. Quality fun fishing areas to stock up on food.
Really enjoyable game! It feels that alot of passion was put into it, and so far i had alot of fun.
Plus a certain Mouse in Public Domain is avaliable as a character, which is objectively funny.
A BEAUTY FUNNY GAME. Enjoy the short lives and fast deaths of the pirates, in real or fantasy Worlds. Even when you die, you may unlock new captains, new ships, and whatever you need to become a great pirate of the seven seas.
I knew buying this back in 2018 would pay off
It's January 1st, 2024. Unlocked Steamboat Willie as the captain. Made my first mate Donald Duck walk the plank for trying to start a mutiny. It's going to be a great year.
It rapidly becomes a grind of staring at a screen as your ship slowly sails from one port to another. The game desperately needs a fast-forward button. The game doesn't tell you much about how systems work, such as how healthy certain crew members are if they are sick. There are lots of hidden stats such as ship speed, experience gain for your captain, and perk benefits (all are vaguely worded with no numbers).
Oregon Trail on the high seas! Let the mishaps commence.
I used to really love Oregon Trail. I still do. But then I discovered this pirate /sailor flavour exists and I've dropped my bonnet for a tricorne!
It can be tough as nails to get going and to complete a cycle but, roguelikes are still popular right? Besides I feel like that is a staple of this genre. See how far you can go and keep going. It can be defeating for a lot of people but it's the mindset that is important when going into decisions. The run isn't the game over. It's when you're done balancing consequences for the time being. The game even saves so if you want to play the slow game and ruminate your strategy and think of "what if" scenarios while you go off to your techbro meeting, cry over dog videos in the workplace restroom and come back to see if you survive, that is absolutely still a valid way to play.
Or you can sit and harpoon fish to grind for that achievement and be amused that there are different fishing locations that produce different patterns. No? Just me? Ok. :P Well I think it's cool that they padded out the activities like that. I also enjoy you can buy shanties to change the song loop. Really clever, that. Only downside is if you really hate bit tune "What Can You Do With A Drunken Sailor"? You are up the Caribbean til you can buy a different one and lord help you if you aren't feeling any of them. Luckily you can mute but it just won't be the same.
Anyway, I've rambled enough and the rum is gone but there's a Liar's Dice game going on that with my luck will let me buy me a piece in Nassau. This is a game reference. I don't drink rum, gamble or buy real estate in foreign countries.
P.S. If you really hate your life and want to be an absolute masochist, play a priest on a raft when you get it unlocked. God be with you. XD
The Oregon Trail but it's pirates.
Just finished my first game. Ended on Day 17. Entire crew was killed by Narwhales while fishing which made me too paranoid to fish causing my captain too slowly starve to death. The other reviews said this game was crazy but I didn't think it would get this crazy with Narwhales flinging their twitching bodies toward starving sailors brutally disemboweling them and traumatizing the captain to the point of choosing to slowly starve over fishing.
Second game: Ended on Day 15. One of my crew mates was struck by lightning and died, he was the only one that didn't get Dysentery. two of the crew died of Dysentery and the last remaining crew member mutinied against the captain who shot him, but it was self defense and he was already dying of Dysentery. The captain was flying Spanish colours by an English ship who were allied with Spain when he left port. They opened fired on him and he surrendered. He was arrested for Piracy that he didn't commit and was hung. But you know what they say, "It isn't murder if they're dying of Dysentery.".
Just an all around good time
It's like Oregon Trail meets Sid Meyer's Pirates! Such a fun game!
I want to like this game, but you spend most of it (actually more than half your game time, I counted) playing this little fishing minigame to feed your absolutely ravenous crew, wherein you throw a limited number of harpoons at fish and lose the harpoons if you miss.
The developer put in an 'auto fishing' mode where you can have your crew do it instantly and just exchange harpoons for fish. But unless you pick the fisherman as your starting character, the exchange rate on this is abysmal and even with a full load of harpoons you won't be able to feed your crew for a single journey.
I understand there needing to be a resource management aspect, but I don't remember spending over half of 'The Oregon Trail' hunting.
I give this game a reluctant thumbs down because I like the concept and the gameplay otherwise. But this game is a 'throw spears at fish and occasionally sail a ship' game, not a 'sail a ship and occasionally throw spears at fish' game.
Maybe I need to give it all the souls
macht spass
"The Caribbean Sail" is the explorative maritime cousin to "The Oregon Trail." This game is a treasure trove of clever humor and stupidly awesome bits. Be prepared to unholster your macro keys to tackle the otherwise annoying minigames!
3.5/5
Simple game but yet so full of contents and joy!
I personally loved the pixel graphic, really. Its vive really goes well with the game's overall theme.
Sailing was really fun too! All that progress feels like a mini game.
I am yet to explore enough of this game too, but I would really recommend this game!
