Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale is a strategy game whose core mechanics are based on classic board games like Chess and Checkers.
The player takes control of Short Legs Bill, a fisherman with an extraordinary talent for telling lies. The adventure begins when Jake, his best friend who had enough of the lies told by Bill, decides to curse him making his biggest lie reality. This lie is nothing more nothing less than Road Jack the most terrible tyrant of the seven seas.
The main theme of Run for Rum is the life of a pirate, and the goal of the game is to combine strategy with an entertaining narrative in a way that challenge and fun comes together.
This game has 20 levels, and I beat 10 at this point, so this is a "first impressions" sort of deal. I figure, it's got to be better than what the other guys wrote who spent 30 minutes in the game, right?
Last things first, this is a decent casual turn-based strategy game with break-sized battles, and I don't regret getting this on the current "75%...
I cannot recommend this game. I will preface this review by stating that I could not get more than 30 minutes into it. But what I did see in my time with this game is horrible enough to make me want to willingly walk away from this $5 purchase so as to not also waste more time than I already have.
Gameplay - Clunky and unresponsive, you have to fight...
Run For Rum is an old 2014 turn based tactical game, 10 years old at the time of this review. Now, there are some games from 2014 that still look very respectable today (Assassin's Creed: Unity, Dragon Age: Inquisition etc), and then there's this. This was never a great game. It wasn't then, it isn't now.
Gameplay consists of turn based tactical unit...
Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale, developed by Reload Game Studio and published by Strategy First, is a quirky and experimental strategy game that tries to blend the whimsy of a pirate adventure with the intellectual pacing of a board game. Rather than taking the expected route of sea battles, treasure hunts, or open-world exploration, the game opts for a...
Tags: Tactical
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: Tabletported quality. Recycled pirate sprites get battered on with your fists, turn based. HOMM style mini arenas with random obtacles. Inept UI.
This is a mobile optimized style tactics game in which you pummel the same pirates over and over with your fist, there is no...
