Merchants of the Caribbean + Collector's Edition

“The 16th century. Brave Jack Savvy sailed to the Caribbean from England, eager to build his settlement and develop a successful business on fertile lands. After a long voyage, there was hope: according to the map, the shores of the New World were close. Suddenly, the crew noticed pirates pursuing them! Jack hurried to reach the land, but the pirate ship was too fast. They could already hear the bandits’ laughter. This is how the story of Jack and his crew begins in a new land. All hands-on deck!”

Your adventure begins with a Sea Battle, attacked by pirates you must defeat the pirates by destroying their ship, while repairing yours at the same time. To defeat the pirates, you are required to click on a cannon, this will send one of your crew to fire the cannon at the pirate ship. It takes a small amount of time before you’re able to fire your cannon again. The pirates being the blighters they are, will fire back at you and cause damage to your ship, they will also throw ropes to climb across and place bombs on your deck. Like with firing the cannons clicking on any damage, bombs and ropes your crew will deal with them. If you don’t deal with the quickly enough your ship will lose health and if it runs out before the pirates does then your ship goes boom! Should you win the sea battle then you will gain a reward which will improve your ship for later battles.

They’ll be a few more Sea Battles as you progress through the game, main levels in the game will have you complete various objectives. On each of the levels you will start from a base, here you will send out your workers to remove obstacles on the winding pathways. The obstacles such as crates, stone, wood require a number of resources in order for you to collect them and you will receive some different resources in return.

Scattered around each level are places where you can construct buildings, these buildings will bring in much needed resources. You have basic Raw Materials like Corn, Cotton, Flax, Stone, Clay, Wood, Herbs and Cocoa. These resources will accumulate automatically and be stored, they can then be sold on the market. There are other buildings which you can construct that will bring greater profits by turning the Raw Materials in to other Materials and then in to Goods. Such as farming Corn will allow you to produce Flour for three Corn and Fifteen gold. This Flour can then be used to create Bread once you have constructed the right buildings. The Materials and Goods buildings are in short supply compared to where you can produce the Raw Materials so, some planning may be required. However, you are able to dismantle buildings already built and replace them with new ones. There are several different types of Totems, which will slow you down or scare your workers away from their duties.

Each time you construct a new building it will require a worker to run it, so you’ll have to stay on top of how many workers you have otherwise you’ll have none to do the running around for you. You can recruit more with a few pennies and they will take a few seconds before you can use them. Once you’ve completed a level you will gain Stars depending on how well you did as well as add the amount of gold you made to your overall total.

Along with the game levels and sea battles there’s a couple other places to visit on the world map. One is Comics which will allow you to review the story at any time once you have access. The other is Chest Island, here if you can unlock all the chests on the islands before time runs out, you’ll be rewarded with upgrades to your ship.

In the options you’ll find settings for Music and Sounds Volume Sliders, Full Screen, Cursor and Tutorial On/Off. Also here is the game Difficulty setting, either Easy (An easy game mode with no limitations. It’s the easiest way to earn stars.) and Normal (A normal mode for players familiar with casual games.)

There are twenty-four levels to complete along with ten sea battles and ten chest islands. There are also some bonus levels upon completing the main story.

? Positives
+ Easy to play
+ Nice graphics
+ Has achievements

? Negatives
- No

Help the Englishman Jack Savvy build a trading empire, while dealing with Fallen Henry and his pirates in Merchants of the Caribbean ? 7/10