King Of Seas Preview (Steam Early Access)

King of Seas is an Action Role-playing game set in a procedural pirate world. An epic adventure awaits you in a fantastic world, dotted with fights, lost islands, and treasures. A universe that will keep you anchored as you struggle to become the king of all pirates.

Pros:

• Decent cartoon-like graphics.
• 1115MB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Controller support.
• Graphics-fullscreen, resolution, v-sync, anti-aliasing, textures, view distance, shadows, effects, and post-processing.
• Display-damage/critical damage numbers-on/off.
• Dialogue speed-1 to 3.
• Five difficulties-ships boy, gunner, captain, corsair, and King of Seas. (last 2 are currently locked out).
• Two character choices–MaryLou and Lucky.
• ARPG gameplay.
• Beautiful locations.
• Brief opening tutorials then ongoing help.
• Brilliant nautical soundtrack.
• Play how you want.
• Main and side missions.
• Many mission types from combat to trading to escorting and more.
• Buy and equip new powers and abilities for your boat.
• Repair your boat wither at sea or at the port.
• The map fills in as you play.
• Other ships can turn hostile.
• Day/night cycle.
• Sea monsters.
• Unlock the ability to catch fish and sell them.
• Forty-five-minute demo.
• Combat is, however, you want it to be, you have cannons that shoot left or right and you can swap between different cannonball styles for different kinds of damage.
• Loot can be found at sea and on beaches and you can search for wrecks and treasure spots.
• All ports have different prices for buying and selling as well as different stock.
• Easy to compare new and equipped items.
• Treasure maps can be found.
• Earn EXP and get points to put into one of three talent trees covering-navigation, battle, and voodoo.
• Hire new crewmates.
• Compass along with wind speed.
• Boat speed has 3 increments that you increase or decrease.
• 3 views you can swap between.
• Enemy health bars are shown.
• End of demo breakdown showing what you did.
• Easy to read Hud system.
• A lot of fun.
• Cool little bits of detail like fog and volcanoes that can erupt and take your ship down.
• Respawn back at the last port visited.
• Can skip the tutorial.

Cons:

• A small set of graphics options.
• Can’t skip the opening video or cutscenes.
• Only one control layout.
• Slow starter.
• No voicework in character exchanges.
• Invisible walls.
• Can’t skip the opening cutscene even on multiple plays.
• The tutorial is way too basic.
• A lot of open water with not a lot of action.
• Combat is either really easy or difficult.
• Everything like repair and scavenging is just a case of stopping dead.
• Slow-paced.
• Cannot flip the camera around it’s just an isometric view making it hard to see around.