Pirates Outlaws
Pirates Outlaws is a rogue like card game with some serious inspiration from Slay the Spire.
Slay The Spire is a game that has been sweeping the gaming market recently, with its innovative turn based card gameplay, all focused on roguelike elements and a huge amount of required restarting.
- Pirates Outlaws is a casual, card battle, turn-based pirate themed game developed and published by Fabled Game. The game was released on August 28, 2019. Play cards, build your deck to get the best combos! In Pirates Outlaws pick a character with a pre-made deck.
- As such, Pirates Outlaws is merely a decent game instead of a great game. Turning it into a great game—that is, unlocking the characters and/or chapters based on difficult achievements instead of.
Pirates Outlaws - card game on the pirate theme. Here the player will manage the pirates in battles with numerous enemies, among which are big bosses. To win the battle, you need to make maximum use of the potential of their deck of cards. A Reputed Pirate (Pirates bay) Rumor of an inestimable treasure grows at Pirate Bay. No Need to Add Too Many Cards to Your Deck. Having too many cards in your deck may.
This has obviously bled over into other mediums, meaning that other game platforms besides PC want to get in on the action. Until Slay The Spire finally arrives on mobile, Pirates Outlaws will have to do.
Until Slay The Spire finally arrives on mobile, Pirates Outlaws will have to do.
Pirates Outlaws plays pretty much exactly the same as Slay The Spire, albeit with a pirate motif and an entirely different cast of different characters and cards to choose from. The base gameplay is the same; develop your hand by defeating enemies and progressing along the level until you fight the boss at the end, with opportunities to upgrade cards, heal and buy relics along the way.
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The new innovations to this system appear to be ammo, which is a replacement of Slay The Spire’s energy. By relying on ammo as a requirement for the majority of cards, Pirates Outlaws is able to have its gameplay be based on ammo conservation.
However, there are far more cards that give ammo than in Slay The Spire, meaning that the average cost of cards has gone up. Additionally, you only draw 5 cards each turn, with all of them being discarded and no conserving, making the base gameplay at least slightly different.
There is a whole list of different status effects, things to watch out for and apparent strategies to perfect, however there is one significant problem; it just isn’t clear enough.
With Slay The Spire, the visual motif only served to provide a background with which to experiment with different decks and progress. The individual statuses were clear and concise, offering up all the information that you could possibly want.
With Pirates Outlaws, however, that just isn’t the case. You can’t tell which enemies are going to be harder, what things are going to be better or what strategies are stronger, due to the ever shifting nature of the cards.
Additionally, there are a LOT of different characters that require obscene amounts of playtime to unlock, forcing you to either play this for several hours at a time or to spend real money and unlock them early – additionally, many of them are just plain better.
What’s more, there is just not enough clarity in both the UI and the individual combat rounds to make it clear what exactly is going on at any one time.
What’s more, there is just not enough clarity in both the UI and the individual combat rounds to make it clear what exactly is going on at any one time.
Though the inherent strategy and gameplay of Pirates Outlaws is familiar and riffing on an established, successful game, this mobile, pirate themed version of Slay The Spire serves only as a reminder of all the things that Slay The Spire is better at.
Without better UI or more visual clarity, Pirates Outlaws remains difficult and clunky to use, if still rather addictive.
Our Rating
| Pros | Cons |
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| An addictive, enjoyable gameplay, ripped straight from Slay The Spire. A decent balance of different card and character types. | The |
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Deck building games are, as we’ve previously discussed, a genre that gets peculiarly overlooked unless almost unplayably hard. So it goes for Pirates Outlaws – a fantastically involved card-me-do, with so much to do, but one that does it in a superbly approachable way.
How is that a “but”? What madness has taken hold?
In the somewhat awkwardly titled Pirates Outlaws, you’re one such naughty sailor, attempting to navigate your boat between the series of islands that make up each level. Some offer turn-based battles with groups of pirates, others have ‘events’ that see you perhaps finding hidden treasure, or gambling your permanent health in pursuit of a possible bonus item, others have taverns or markets to restore health or buy and sell equipment. And each ends with a tough battle.
Turns are balanced via the use of ammo. These are essentially action points, needed each time you fire a weapon, prep a skill, or load up on armour. The exception is melee attacks which are ‘free’, and of course various cards will allow you to meddle with these stats as you play. And you have reload cards in your deck. This means you plan each turn accordingly, choosing that double-shot that takes up two of your three ammo, but then reload one more, throw a smoke bomb to blind that dangerous opponent, and use the last to play a shield.
Every card can be upgraded during a run, using the markets and bonus items found. Then there are new cards to buy, or be won in battles, found in treasure chests, and so on. You can also unload cards from your deck at certain points, to streamline what will come into play.
The game is far more forgiving of your choices at the start than so many in this genre. If you overload your deck with too many cards, you’re not so quickly punished as in others – although learning to cut it back will afford you better chances as the runs get harder. And every single element is cleanly and usefully introduced when you first encounter it, rather than assuming vast amounts of prior experience from the player. This is so refreshing!
And that’s not to say it doesn’t get harder. When you complete a run you gain Repute, which is used to unlock new levels, new pirates, and new game modes, and the further you go, the more there is to gain. But the further you go, the tougher an experience it’ll be.
There are thirteen different buccaneers to unlock and play as, each with a different skill build, meaning you’ll look for different ways to approach the game. You begin with a Gunner, whose deck is pistol-heavy, relying more on ranged than melee attacks. First unlocked is Sword Master, and won’t be surprised to learn she puts her emphasis on the wacky-wacky, at the cost of being able to use armour. And then her starting deck offers a brand new selection of cards that nudge you toward a far more defensive approach.
I’ve really only scraped at the surface of it, which is a real pleasure. Sometimes a more approachable deck builder might veer toward offering less long-term, but certainly not here. There’s so much to unlock, and so much to learn about how best to organise your cards, that it’ll keep offering for a very long time.
It’s also really nicely presented, very decent cartoon graphics. The only disappointment is a lack of animations – it’d be so much nicer if the characters at least waggled their swords or aimed their pistols during attacks. But as much as I missed that at the start, I quickly stopped noticing as the game continued.
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This is a really strong yet extremely approachable deck-building game, and after eight months in Early Access it’s fully released now. And really deserves a lot of attention.
- Fabled Game
- Steam (complete), iOS (with in-app purchases)
- £11.61/$15/€12.59
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