Caribbean Legend - Pirate Open-World RPG Reviews

Once you actually learn to play, the game is GREAT, live them pirate dreams baby!

Mount & Blade vibes, but ships instead of armies.

Caribbean Legend offers a sprawling pirate adventure set in the vibrant and tumultuous Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. Players assume the role of Charles de Maure, a French nobleman on a quest to rescue his imprisoned brother, but this personal mission quickly expands into an epic journey filled with political intrigue, naval warfare, and treasure hunting. The game invites you to forge your own path—whether building a pirate empire, managing a colony, engaging in commerce, or climbing the ranks from a humble captain to a powerful governor or feared pirate lord. The game’s world is vast and richly detailed, populated with dozens of islands, bustling ports, dense jungles, and mysterious ruins. Each location offers numerous activities like trading goods, raiding enemy settlements, and uncovering hidden treasures. Naval combat is a key feature, featuring classic Age-of-Sail tactics such as maneuvering your ship, firing broadsides, and boarding enemy vessels. On land, combat shifts to party-based skirmishes where positioning and weapon choice matter, with muskets, swords, and poisons all in play. Crew management and recruiting skilled officers add strategic layers to maintaining your fleet and influence. Fans of classic pirate RPGs will find familiar mechanics here, as Caribbean Legend draws inspiration from older titles like Sea Dogs. The game expands on that legacy with a larger quest system, enhanced dialogue options, and new crafting and alchemy elements that enrich gameplay. However, the complexity and depth come with a steep learning curve. Many game systems are not thoroughly explained, often requiring players to consult guides to fully grasp trade mechanics, ship upgrades, and character development. This initial hurdle can feel daunting for newcomers or casual players. While the ambition behind Caribbean Legend is impressive, the execution is sometimes uneven. The graphics, though serviceable, feel dated and lack the polish of modern titles. Controls can be clunky, and technical issues such as bugs, awkward dialogue transitions, and occasional performance hiccups detract from immersion. Players report that repetitive combat and slow-paced naval battles may wear on those seeking a more dynamic experience. Additionally, the necessity to frequently backtrack between locations can slow the game’s pacing. Despite its flaws, the game shines in its immersive world-building and narrative scope. Themes of colonial ambition, the harsh realities of slavery, and the personal costs of power are woven throughout the story and side quests. Your choices carry weight, affecting how factions view you and influencing the development of towns and alliances. There is a broad array of achievements to pursue, rewarding exploration, trade mastery, and completing various story arcs, which encourages players to engage deeply with the sandbox elements. Overall, Caribbean Legend is a passionate homage to the pirate RPG genre that offers considerable depth and freedom but requires patience and perseverance. Its sprawling content and rich storytelling appeal to players who enjoy open-ended adventures and complex systems. However, those who prioritize smooth mechanics, modern visuals, and streamlined gameplay might find it frustrating. With ongoing updates and community support, Caribbean Legend continues to evolve, making it a worthwhile experience for dedicated fans of pirate lore and sandbox RPGs. Rating: 7/10

Rough diamond that apparently gets shinier with every patch. Dev team is amazing!

This is the best pirate game ever. You can do so much, upgrading ships, manage a fleet, smuggle, pirating, trading, capturing ships, boarding and the ship battles are great fun and realistic (i dont know how real ship battles is supposed to be but I'm certain Caribbean Legends' ship battles are more realistic than Assassin's Creed Black Flag's fast paced battles and other similar pirate games). I bought this because I absolutely loved the old pirates of the caribbean game from 2003. This is exactly the same but less buggy, bigger world, and everything has just been improved. Great work done from the guys in Kiev.

Great pirate game! The pirate threat system is, sometimes, a little annoying but otherwise this games is *chef's kiss*!

The product images prominently feature female player character's, but these are not available in the game. The developers should remove the female character images from the promotional material until they become available. I cannot recommend this game until this problem is fixed and I think that other potential buyers should be made aware of this serious deficiency before deciding whether to buy this game.

This game is a scam. They removed content from the DLC a few updates ago, yet they’re still selling it. I can’t use any of the so-called starter ships from the DLC anymore, and there’s absolutely no support or help.

If you like pirate games and maybe you played sea dogs: to each their own then this is the game for you. i will give a slight warning as it is a game getting updates and can be considered under redevelopment or overhauling. it is after all an old game, getting a massive overhaul and slowly changing. hopefully getting to a point where we will see a great pirate game with a massive depth. there is already so much to do in the game, but it is no doubt that the updating and QOL work is a god send to this old clunky game.

This game isn't the pirate game you want, hate to say. It might look like the closest thing to it, but there are better options out there. First of all, there's a lot of confusion to what the game really is. It's based off of much older game called sea dogs (which is what the pirates of the caribbean rpg on OG xbox and ps2 was built from, if you remember that), with an old engine that has been painstakingly updated and cared for by a select group of supremely dedicated people that I respect. However, that doesn't make the game mechanics at all any less archaic and awful. It also makes the store page insane to navigate, because sea dogs is available and by all screenshots looks like the exact same game. Not to mention all of the dlc for both games; at first looks it will seem like a scammer has just reuploaded the same game to make money. That's not the case, but what's left to play is still largely not worthwhile. The pace of ship combat is SLOW. Turning, reloading, aiming all takes an amount of time that can I suppose be generously called "immersive." The average person will find it very boring at best, followed by frustratingly punishing at worst. Not to mention, there is no indication available to dictate whether a ship combat will be remotely winnable from the onset, so basically save before each fight, find out you cannot win, and reload. This is primarily due to the fact that escaping by sailing away is nearly impossible. I've sailed in a straight line with the wind for literally ten straight minutes (I actually timed it) and could not lose a pursuer despite them being so far away they couldn't hit me with anything. Sword combat is so bad that it makes sid meier's pirates rock-paper-scissors matchups seem revolutionary. There's supposed to be a parry that either doesn't work or has an unknowable timing window because it's based neither on the start of the enemy attack or time of impact. It's really hard to learn timing especially when combat with more than one enemy (which is incredibly common) is practically unwinnable-sorry, "immersive." On top of that, each attack button has two different moves, the second move being done while holding shift. I have had multiple moments where I attempt to parry by pressing shift+right click, then try to normal left click attack without holding shift, and the game makes me do the shift+left attack which is a sweep that leaves you vulnerable for a long time. The missions available are run-of-the-mill: take x goods to y island in z days, find a ship near some town and sink or capture it, buried treasure maps, etc. All of these missions feel appropriately rewarding and various enough that it's a shame the mechanics around them are truly awful. The game start feels something like the game Outward, in the respect that there's a lot more going on than you see/expect, and the learning curve is insanely steep. Supposedly once you learn what ways to make money to get better gear/ships, the insane mechanics become more forgiving. However, the curve is so steep and the mechanics are so unfun to master that its punishment to become skilled enough to navigate. Learning where to go to make money or what gear is best is still continually struck down by horrible overwheliming ship encounters, or as i've also learned too many times, a misclick that makes neutral npc's hostile and swarm you. This game by no means is worth what they're asking for at full price. I understand they've painstakingly upkept an ancient engine to keep the Sea dogs series relevant, but that's like me charging you 30 bucks for a slightly more polished version of Minesweeper called "Minefield," because I continually upgraded it from the windows 95 version instead of just remaking it from scratch. I'd say if you can get it for less than 20, and love the pirate game genre more than you love how the game plays, or have a nostalgia for Sea Dogs/Pirates of the caribbean, that's a fair price for what the devs have done. Just be advised, you're essentially buying a 30 year old game that looks nice, and will have to save every 3 minutes and restart frequently if you want to make any progress.