Any good Pirate RPGs?

[Vic]

Currently playing return to monkey island and it made me want to play a pirate themed rpg with actual pirate roleplaying, wonder if anything good is out there?

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

Risen 2 and 3. Whether they are good is up to you. While they are not up there with Gothic 1 & 2 and Elex. They are still decent enough for a playthrough.

 

[Krivol]

Uncharted Waters

 

[Lord_Potato]

Currently playing return to monkey island and it made me want to play a pirate themed rpg with actual pirate roleplaying, wonder if anything good is out there?

Well, I even reviewed one for the Codex!

I give you very underrated but IMO great game, Vendetta: Curse of the Raven's Cry. More in my review:
https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=11821

 

[SunKing]

Pillars of Eternity 2

 

[spectre]

Perhaps a bit of a stretch to call them good, but there was a series of games by Akella called Age of Pirates
(iirc, most recent entry is called Sea Dogs: To each his own, but there was a bit of a shitshow cause the series had different names for international releases).
It was intended as a treat for people who wanted a more rpg-ey and in-depth Sid Meier's Pirates.
There was a bit of clunkiness, proverbial ruskie coding, and some questionable design choices (like boarding action where the number of crew would be limited, but their HP and damage would scale according to the crew ratios).
But you had the whole package - stats influencing how good are you at the pirate business, running around towns to talk to people for quests, etc.,
more of an RPG than many recent titles.

There was a bunch of mods for them, though that was a long time ago and the links are probably all expired.

 

[just]

Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry

 

[NecroLord]

 

[Poseidon00]

Sid Meier's Pirates! basically counts. There is also Uncharted Waters

 

[samuraigaiden]

Most games seem to base their pirate depiction on Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Expeditions: Conquistador is not a game about pirates, but it gets the whole Age of Discovery/Age of Sail theme better than any other game I've played.

 

[JarlFrank]

There's a Russki-made (because of course) Mount & Blade clone in the Caribbean.

Literally M&B clone, it licensed the M&B engine. A decent enough game, somewhere between Sid Meier's Pirates and Mount & Blade.

 

[Bastardchops]

Currently playing return to monkey island and it made me want to play a pirate themed rpg with actual pirate roleplaying, wonder if anything good is out there?

As for fun Pirate games Sid Meier's Pirates and the Sea Dogs series are good. Whether or not they qualify as RPG's I'm not sure but they are fun.
https://af.gog.com/en/game/sea_dogs?as=1649904300

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I found Risen 2 & Risen 3 to actually be pretty fun but they get shit on a lot here. ymmv, I guess.
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I've been wanting to try this for a while but haven't gotten around to it

this is made by a codexer


On the list of games that definitely didn't make me feel like a pirate, Deadfire would be at the top.

 

[Aarwolf]

Sink Again was quite pleasant, turn based affair:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1422090/Sink_Again/

It seems that is no longer on steam, don't know why.

 

[Lord_Potato]

I found Risen 2 & Risen 3 to actually be pretty fun but they get shit on a lot here. ymmv, I guess.
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I've been wanting to try this for a while but haven't gotten around to it

this is made by a codexer


On the list of games that definitely didn't make me feel like a pirate, Deadfire would be at the top.

Risen 2&3 have the pirate aesthetics, sure, but you don't really do a lot of pirating. Your ship mostly serves as a quick travel between islands, battles are few and scripted. Not much of a free roaming that characterises pirate life

 

[mondblut]

Pirates of the western sea. Unfinished but fully playable game from the maker of Nahlakh and Natuk.

 

[Dorateen]

In Grimoire, one of the advanced classes is Pirate. And there is great Pirate content from the city of Waterport to the surrounding lake adventure.

Spoiler

 

[Jvegi]

Arrr! playing games.

 

[V_K]

Horizon's Gate. Not pirate-themed per se, but it's an RPG/Naval strategy hybrid and you can absolutely do pirate things in it.

 

[Late Bloomer]

Here is some gameplay of Sea Dogs

 

[Jrpgfan]

There's a Russki-made (because of course) Mount & Blade clone in the Caribbean.

Literally M&B clone, it licensed the M&B engine. A decent enough game, somewhere between Sid Meier's Pirates and Mount & Blade.

It's good but gets old/repetitive really fast.

It's crazy how many interesting settings are underused in RPGs.

 

[Trojan_generic]

I found Risen 2 & Risen 3 to actually be pretty fun but they get shit on a lot here. ymmv, I guess.
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I've been wanting to try this for a while but haven't gotten around to it



On the list of games that definitely didn't make me feel like a pirate, Deadfire would be at the top.

Sea Dogs: TEHO is a bitch. You have quests which you cannot take if you are above a certain level. The game itself is a copy of the earlier Sea Dogs, with perhaps a little more content and it is overall a bit smoother.

 

[JarlFrank]

It's good but gets old/repetitive really fast.

Yeah but I find that applies to all Mount and Blade games and mods.

 

[Jrpgfan]

It's good but gets old/repetitive really fast.

Yeah but I find that applies to all Mount and Blade games and mods.

I have more than 1k hours in M&B + Mods but couldn't play that game for more than 50 hours.

The combat which is the highlight of M&B games is not as good IMO.

 

[anvi]

Pirates of the Burning Sea, yet another terrible MMO by SOE that took millions away from their only good and profitable game.