Idle Pirate Tycoon: Gold Sea 9+

Great game

Expensive for no ads, but no different to most other games these days. With no ads the game is great and I love the game play and progression. I’ve been looking for a game like this for ages and I’m loving it. Hoping for future updates and mechanics as I can see me playing this for a while.

Great game but...

The game itself is like so many other idle games, collect some resource which you use to level up.

Having a pirate theme makes this game different, and having two types of resources to collect is different, gold to increase the level of each ship, and ship parts awarded in battle to increase your fleet size and strength.

Ads do appear in the game, but refreshingly not every few minutes as with many other games. Various boosts can be applied by watching ads

Thoses are the good things, now on to the bad. You only get 2 hours idle time unless you pay to unlock. This is very expensive and only doubles the idle time to 4 hours, for the amount of money being charged I'd expect at minimum to get 12 hours idle time and preferably unlimited. I'd also expect to get ad free which is extra.

Two hours idle time makes it really hard to acquire enough gold to level up ships, it's almost as if your being forced to buy the unlocks.

Overall a great game, sadly because if the costs to unlock and go add free I don't feel the game is five stars.

Developer Response ,

Avast now! With praise as grand ye might just make our heads too big to fit our pirate hats. We thank ye dearly for the feedback 🏴‍☠️. If ye be wantin' to send us any ideas along be sure to send us a message to community@kolibrigames.com🦜 Be seein' ye on the salty seas!

Fun gameplay, however...

The game itself is good fun. The first couple of weeks I really enjoyed upgrading my ships to battle it out.

Paying for add free is fairly standard for games now so that’s fine. The amount of ads isn’t terrible because they perform a function to get boosts or ammo.

You do hit a bit of a paywall with progression, again not unusual these days, however the cost of premium extras is steep. 400 for just a 2x boost which I suppose is at least for 12 hours, but 700 for 10x boost which is only for 1 hour? Far too expensive. That puts it at around £4 for just 1 hour at 10x. I have several games with these types of features which I buy premium content on but they are better value, the steep prices actually put me off buying the diamonds since there are so few boosts, which are applied immediately not able to be saved up, and aren’t very good value for money.

Therefore as fun as the game is, I have now found the grinding less of a challenge and more boring.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the detailed review! We're working on making our game better every day, so if you have more feedback for us please let us know at community@kolibrigames.com⛵