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1987PC62 % positive6.99 €

Sail the 17th-century Caribbean as a freebooter, capturing ships, fighting sword duels, raiding towns and hunting treasure. A mix of naval combat, trading and diplomacy makes each career play out differently.

Historical setting
Open world
Sandbox with your own goals
Choices with consequences

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Pirates! Gold

92 %Match

1993PC62 % positive6.99 €

You play a rising buccaneer in the 17th-century Spanish Main and choose your own path to fame and fortune, whether through honest trade, treasure hunting or plundering ships. Every town in this untamed region holds different surprises and dangers.

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Sea Dogs

Historical setting

An open-ended 17th-century pirate RPG where you sail your own ship, fight naval battles, trade and visit ports, and choose freely between serving a nation or going pirate.

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Historical setting

A sprawling sandbox in pseudo-medieval Calradia where you rise from lone mercenary to ruler, fighting massive battles personally with directional melee and mounted combat. Army management, trade, politics and sieges intertwine to create emergent stories of conquest.

Mount & Blade: Warband

Historical setting

An open medieval sandbox where you rise from nobody to warlord, recruiting an army and fighting alongside it in directional real-time melee and mounted combat. Feudal politics, sieges and kingdom-building turn every campaign into your own emergent saga.

Mount & Blade: With Fire and Sword

Historical setting

A sandbox warfare game set in 17th-century Eastern Europe: you lead a mercenary band, fight in real time with sword, horse and musket, and conquer castles and provinces. The mix of hands-on battlefield action and kingdom building is its draw.

Caribbean Legend

Historical setting

An open-world pirate RPG set in the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy, where you plunder ships and cities, hunt treasure, and carve out your own path to freedom. It leans on classic pirate sandbox games with naval combat, trade and discovery.

Rise of Piracy

Lots to discover

You start as the captain of a small ship and grow into the commander of a feared pirate fleet through trading, naval combat, recruiting and conquest. It mixes real-time strategy with sea adventure and 4X elements in an open world.

Corsairs: Conquest at Sea

Historical setting

You play a privateer in the 17th century, choosing to serve England, France, the Netherlands or Spain. Follow scripted campaign scenarios or roam freely in adventure mode with the goal of capturing every port.

Mount & Blade

Sandbox with your own goals

An open medieval sandbox where you rise from a lone wanderer to a warlord, recruiting troops and fighting in skill-based mounted battles. Its directional melee and cavalry combat are the heart of the experience.

Europa Universalis IV

Choices with consequences

A deep grand strategy sandbox where you guide any of hundreds of nations from the late Middle Ages to the Napoleonic era through diplomacy, trade, colonization and war. Its complexity is daunting at first, but crafting your own alternate world history is endlessly absorbing.