Uncharted Waters Origin

“The admiral stories, which would be the main plot of the game, after the first or second story become so easy that they are basically a list of chores you do to get the rewards at the end, and many of these rewards aren't even that good. Also, if you want more admiral stories, you need to get paid currency, and many of these stories don't offer much challenge or gameplay themselves, with many stories being terribly written or rushed.”

“Truth is, the core gameplay is repetitive, and there is no end goal other than building more ships to keep up with the next patch to build newer ships, fighting over ranks, and doing repetitive activities to make money to flip ports to your nationality or guild.”

“Aside from the pay-to-win aspects, there are many broken elements (the game is practically unplayable if you reach admiral level 4), unnecessarily drawn-out sequences (do I really have to sit through seven pointless pop-up notifications prior to initiating every single battle?), and boring gameplay (battles aren't strategic, sailing is monotonous, all experiences are built around pushing you to spend money).”

“All this simplification and the graphics aren't even much improved; the goofy 3D anime polygon people have been replaced with the characteristic 'low-quality mobile game' portraits and weird Voltron walking animations.”

“Mobile port to PC, no character creation, really old generation graphics which is understandable given it's a mobile port to PC; uninstalled within 30 minutes, no idea why this game even exists.”

“Graphics are 2D, player models are 1990's console quality.”

“They took a lovely game and made another pay-to-win MMO. The amount of ads pushing purchases every 5 seconds is overwhelming; you won’t get past the first scene without encountering numerous prompts to buy things.”

“The game is riddled with microtransactions, and the grind system is noticeably worse and more unfair compared to Uncharted Waters Online.”

“There should be a special place in hell for whoever turned this potentially epic remake of a single player legend into a cheap 'free to play' cash grab with a completely pointless online system.”

“At the current state of the game AFK gaming is thoroughly incentivised, rewarding players for doing nothing apart from pressing a few buttons to return with billions or so after grinding through an automated process overnight, while active players that do not do AFK are nowhere close to making that kind of money through trading alone, and can't even compete in the season.”

“This game is a mobile phone MMO, as such, it's grindy, long, repetitive and with no end in sight. It's fun at first, but as the grind goes on, it loses its appeal quickly.”

“You can unlock some admirals as free to play (for me was three of them) but for the rest you must expect grinding for months.”

“The music is pretty repetitive; I ended up muting it very early and playing a playlist of sea shanties.”

“⭐⭐⭐ music & sounds - I guess it was okay.”

“Music also changes as you travel across different regions, unlike in NH where the sailing music was based on the character you picked.”

“Game is so buggy that simple gameplay may cause annoying bugs.”

“Buggy, crashes frequently, severely impacting play stability.”

“Unexplained disconnections occur, causing interruptions in gameplay.”

“The most recent patch has also created a lot of performance issues and game crashes.”

“The Steam version, however, is very poorly optimized. I could play GTA 5 and Skyrim with 1000 mods on my laptop and it would be fine. This game makes my laptop work harder than AAA games.”

“Optimized for mobiles, so you get extremely large fonts on a normal monitor, like three rows of text with five words on each row sometimes. Also, it's clear that it's designed for dual-thumb inputs on a mobile phone.”

“Drawing parallels to Assassin's Creed Black Flag, Uncharted Waters Origin thrives in its naval combat and exploration, but falls short in its repetitive storyline and limited character development.”