Uncharted Tides: Port Royal

I own/have played through a large portion of Artifex hidden object games for a while now, and I must say, I think this is the first game so far, I've noticed that you play as a *****, *.*.*., ****! Albeit, it seems like a supporting role, and probably only about 40% of game or so (which is somewhat short lived), but praise be! It's 2025! We finally have broken down the standardized ****** norms we have grown so accustomed to over the past decade or so. The ******rchy is now getting some recognition, and it feels like we have broken through some cultural/social barriers to say the least. Now of course there is still a ****** presence in the game, who you spend the rest of the time playing as, following suit. We don't want to scare the masses too quickly ya know? In terms of gameplay however, there were some noticeably frustrating puzzles, and a couple of the hidden object scenes with the standard, 'confusing definition' of some words attributed to items, found in most of these. Far and few between, but got stuck on a few of them. The game also seemed pretty streamlined, and a little shorter in length on average. As well as, a good part of the later half of the game has *find shape sized piece, put into object shaped hole*, giving a feeling of more just collecting and placing, rather than thinking puzzles. So kind of a middle of the road recommendation, thumbs down for the simplistic gameplay, and length of the game. However, thumbs up to the graphic design, and the fact that we finally have some balanced representation in the world, and it finally feels like ***, are just as capable as *****! God Bless America, and Reddit!

I don't have many of these that I don't recommend, but this game just didn't do it for me. There were some things that I think were cool ideas, like you switch back and forth between 2 characters in the game, or there are some smaller-scale hidden object puzzles with just silhouettes of maybe 6 or 8 objects and I thought that was a welcome change of pace from the text names of items. (Though it has those too.) But I think for me, the story and the pacing were what didn't land for me. I found myself stuck a lot in this game either because there was a scene or another path I didn't find because the place it was located in the scene wasn't obvious or because I wasn't using an item exactly right. But I feel like the whole game was finicky with me, and several puzzles I found unintuitive. It was mostly fine, but I kept finding myself wishing this was Nightmares from the Deep instead, which is my favorite pirate-themed hidden object puzzle game. It's a shame because there were other things I did like, the games signature puzzle "lockpicking" I liked a lot and I appreciated that it was a type of puzzle that kept coming back more and more complex. Overall I though the puzzles outside of the hidden object ones were also good, I just wish the story and the pacing and clickable areas came together a little better. I might have liked it more if I didn't have trouble finding the right areas to go to or figuring out just how to use an item in the right way to get it to work, but your experience may be different and maybe this is just an issue for me. I did not have any technical issues with this game, it does have both collectibles and an indicator in the HUD to inform you if there is a collectible in the scene, and there is also a bonus adventure.

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The game crashes when I change the settings (on Linux). All the other Artifex Mundi games I played, and I bought DOZENS, worked fine, so this is a problem just with this one.

This game has a lot of charm to it that makes it stand out from other hidden object games

Buy on sale wish this was more about pirates and less about the other stuff it's about