Scarlet Sails

$3.99

Release Date:: May 1, 2025
Developer:: Hosted Games
Publisher:: Hosted Games
Platforms:: Windows Mac Linux

Indie Adventure RPG Family Sharing Single-player Steam Cloud

About This Game

Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass or with magic? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or are you the reason the rum is gone?

Scarlet Sails is an 80,000-word interactive novel by Felicity Banks, author of Attack of the Clockwork Army and Bali B & B. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based–without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Enjoy an adventure on the high seas.
Choose your personality, fighting style, and magical skill.
Play as male or female or nonbinary; gay, straight, or asexual.
Choose who to love, including options for singlehood or polyamory.
Face the horrors of your past—and of the deep.
Find treasure, treachery, and maybe even true love.

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Negative

1 user reviews

Positive

User #123924 english

3 hrs at review

Not Recommended

It pains me to give an indie game a negative review, and usually I just refrain from giving any in these cases, but I felt like for this specific game, it's better to actually mention publicly the issues it has so that people know what to expect. This is a story that, in my opinion, really suffers from its short word count. Usually, my personal taste is to favor stories with 120k+ words, so this one is shorter than what I'd usually purchase, but despite my preferences, I had some good shorter experiences too, from time to time. Sadly it wasn't the case here. What I wanted to say is that the length of the story the game tells us isn't really too short, and isn't the culprit for the low word count. The problem comes from the lack of flavor text, which to me is a big issue in an interactive fiction like this one. What I mean by lack of flavor text is simply that the game doesn't give enough lasting repercussions on what we make our MC to be. We get a lot of choices to shape their personal...