Republic of Pirates

Campaign Info:

Platforms - Steam, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

Targeted Regions - Worldwide

Incentive - One game code per streamer 

Game Summary:

Price - £20.99, €24.99, $24.99

Key Features - City-builder, Real-Time Strategy, Naval Combat

Languages - English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Difficulty - Medium

Introduction

Republic of Pirates is a pirate-themed city builder and real-time strategy game set in the Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy (late-17th century).

You are tasked with creating your own ‘Republic of Pirates’ by founding a settlement on a remote island and constructing buildings, industries, and infrastructure to address the needs of your growing population of increasingly affluent and skilled pirate citizens.

As your city expands, you will recruit captains, construct different classes of ships, and dispatch your fleet to explore and conquer the local archipelago. Ships can be commanded in real time to attack merchants, engage other pirates, and even national trading companies. However, these actions will not go unnoticed, and so you must navigate diplomatic relationships while also being prepared to defend your shores from enemy attack.

Republic of Pirates also supports several gameplay modes which offer different experiences. In campaign mode, you will work to complete quests during a narrative-driven campaign. Free play mode offers a less prescriptive experience, with additional maps to explore, configurable difficulty settings, and settlement development linked to reaching key population milestones as opposed to completing story quests.

Key talking points

Where are all the pirate city builders?!

There are surprisingly few pirate-themed city builder & RTS games in existence! Back in the early 2000s, this genre was well served with classic titles such as Port Royale: Gold, Power and Pirates (2002). Tropico 2: Pirate’s Cove (2003), and Sid Meier's Pirates! (2004). More recently however pirate-themed games have tended to gravitate towards the first-person survival and RPG genres. Republic of Pirates therefore aims to deliver some much-needed nostalgia and address the 20-year gap in the market by placing you in the role of an ambitious pirate captain working to build your legendary pirate utopia!

Inspired by the classics! 

Republic of Pirates is influenced by 2 of the greats in the city builder, management and real-time strategy genres, blending the resource management and city building of the Anno series with the combat feel of the Age of Empires series.   

Complex systems, simple loop!

Although there are many complex systems, the core gameplay loop can be broken down simply:

Grow your pirate settlement  - Which incorporates classic city building, resource production, and workforce management.

Command your fleet - Which incorporates fleet building and real-time naval combat.

Expand your influence across the archipelago - Which incorporates conquering islands, conducting diplomacy with rival factions, and building additional settlements.

Repeat!