Choice of the Pirate Demo

Pirates used to be quite important a few hundred years ago, mainly because the job was a tad easier to pick up. GPS and satellites make it very difficult for pirates to exist nowadays, even if there are still some ships out there that capture crews to hold them and their cargo for ransom. However, it was much more profitable back in the day when ships were full of gold and other riches.

Choice of the Pirate is a text-based role-playing game that provides you with the opportunity to become a famous pirate and create your own story on the go. Each scene in the game is designed to have multiple solutions, which means that you choose how the plot evolves and, obviously, how your character develops. Thus, it should be a blast to replay the experience and make different choices.

Just like in the rest of the Choice of Games productions, you are free to choose your character’s name, sex and sexual orientation, which opens up new romance options along the way. Not only that, but you can also decide whether to be a hero or a villain, or maybe something in between. In short, it should be easy to mold the story in order to fit your preferences.

The writing is very important in a game such as this one, because there’s nothing else to distract you from it. Thankfully, most of the 165,000 words are neatly arranged into engaging phrases, which helps a lot with immersion and the general atmosphere. On top of that, the dialog is great as well, especially since you are allowed to offer the desired response most of the time.

As mentioned before, there are no graphics and no music to enrich the experience, which means that your imagination needs to do all the heavy lifting. Since the writing is solid, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem, but it may intimidate younger gamers that are not accustomed to text-based games. On the other hand, it’s exactly like reading a book, only you are in charge of the story.

All things considered, Choice of the Pirate can be a wonderful experience if you know what you’re getting into, but you need to make do without a lot of things. Despite that, it’s a wonderful adventure that’s worth your time.