King of Pirates

King of pirates is a fun game for those who like to be a jerk and make it difficult for the other players. (of course it can also get difficult for you) I tried it at Århus board game festival 2017 and had fun with it. You move your pirate ship around the board, finding treassure, looting other players and castles, all while you roll dices, draw and play cards that e.g. can give scurvy to the other players' pirates (some of which look like people from the dice tower), move the flying dutchman and other thing that sometimes make your pirate life a little easier, in your goal of getting 10000 gold coins. I think the theme is very well integrated and it's awesome to sail the seas with your pirate ship. It reminded me a bit of Survive! Escape from atlantis, because of the random nature of the game and the ocean board with its tiles with hidden information, but I think King of pirates is a meaner game with pirates!, dices, more cards and a more random length to it. I haven't played the games enough to say which one I like the better. My biggest issues with the game, has nothing to with how the game plays, (I like it) but with the art of the game box and the pirate cards, because I don't find them very attractive. They would surely benefit from a better art direction. (The directional dice is by the way hard to read - I recommend to draw a big colorful dot there, instead of the thin line we get now) These minor details did not prevent me from having fun with King of pirates and I think that over all it is good fun, easy to learn, (but some times a little lengthy) and I recommend trying it out.

Played it at the Spiel 2017. Very nice and well developed game.

if you do not enjoy being mean to people (and therefor them being mean to you) This game is not for you!

But if you are like me and actually want the opponents to suffer, this might be the best game ever

The gameplay is exactly as evil and backstabbery (is that even a word?) as i want a pirate game to be, but the graphics is not nearly as gritty as i would have liked

i can see that the cartoony look might be better suited for families though

overall an unusual approach to gaming, where the players are more focussed on hating on each other than on "having a nice time" with each other. Totally recommend this

Have had the opportunity to participate in testing the game before launch - amazing mechanics qualities!

To many random things in the game, although you can influence some of the randomness if you happen to have the correct action cards. Action Cards are swingy from very powerful (Mutiny) to nearly useless (Tailwind). Graphics design is awful, and the 3D printed ships does not look like authentic wooden ships, but rather like cheap 3D printer plastic ships.

Very great game. Both for the experienced geek and for everyone else!