Urban Pirate

It's not GTA. It's more like Steal This Book: The Game. You're trying to survive at street level. You're a week away from starving to death, and your morale is even more tenuous. As the name "Pirate" might suggest, there's some resemblance to the old Sid Meier game in that there's no central gameplay. As you move around the map freely, various tasks each appear as their own minigame. The art design combines daringly low-res pixel art with a color scheme that's easy on the eyes. A level structure keeps it from being overwhelming at first. A fun, lightweight game with more relatable conflicts than other sandbox crime games.

tl;dr: For me personally, the fun of this game does not outweigh the frustration of the game. Glad to help an indie developer, but not glad to play the product. [b]PROS:[/b] [*]8-bit retro graphics [*]Fun concept [*]Opportunities in-game scale to progress [/list] [b]CONS:[/b] [*]Retro gameplay means frustrating gameplay in some instances [*]RNG (at least seemingly) based shoplifting, socialization, income, and events [/list] This game frustrates me in a real way. When you get caught stealing, which seems to happen more and more frequently, you then run in a vertical scrolling stage with only left, right, and jump buttons [url=http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/471380/ss_7c45f7876f59012c2b88cde0aaad3cef0a6d16c5.1920x1080.jpg](like this)[/url]. This seems nigh unwinnable to me, and I've only successfully escaped the police one a couple of occassions. For me as a player, if I roll poorly on the RNG for shoplifting, I almost always get caught. When you get caught, you are fined...

TL;DR - This is a very fun and unique game that's definitely worth checking out, though it does seem to need a bit more polish. Remember when you were 13 and found the Anarchist's Cookbook on some shady BBS (or website)? I know that it was very exciting for me, because even though I was a nerdy and well-behaved little kid, it was fun to imagine an alternative me putting those tricks to use on the street. Well, this is that game. You shoplift so you don't starve, you grow, smoke, and sell weed, you make molotovs to defend your squat against over-zealous riot police, and you skate in a minigame homage to NES's 'Skate or Die'. I play a lot of games, and this was a real breath of fresh air to me. It's essentially broken down in to several very simple minigames and a fairly simple meta-game on top of that, which basically boils down to: Avoid cops, don't starve, and stay sane. Action success is usually determined by an RNG. The pacing of the game is nice; it eases you in to new game mec...

Hobo Simulator: the strategic crime RPG, now with minigames! Simple controls, mechanics on point and a reasonable difficulty curve. Cool aesthetic and humour if you like this kind of theme. Having lived as a part of a punk squatter commune for a couple years, this game hit close to home and my opinion is totally biased, but that should not stop you from taking a look at this game. It's awesome.

A more subtle, toned-down kind of crime sim. Easy to learn, fun to play, very great game imo. Now someone tell me how to get past level 6.

A game that reminds me of my youth, but I shoplifted comic books, not food. [b]I appreciate the dev's patience and effort to provide Linux support[/b]

Very short game. Only 11 levels or so. I beat it in an afternoon.

This game is the spiritual son of the Atari E.T. and Forklift Truck Simulator 2009. He has the graphism and the sound effect from his 80's mother and he's entertaining like his father... Don't buy that shit. Ask the dev to pay you for playing this crap...

so an oogle simulation is cool and all but what the fuck is up with the controls!?

This game is a very interesting twist on the sandbox open world crime genre. Instead starting empire for wealth and power beating misusing people, instead your shoplift skateboard, smoking weed. Your not just criminal your Urban Pirate! What is Urban Pirate that well strange abstracted code of morals of living outside modern society while partying hard as you can and being much of menace as humanly possible! The game take romantic view pirates which where greedy men and women wanting as much booty and wealthy as possible, as same time historically they value there personal freedom and in had a very democratic nature about election there captains and each man of getting fair share of the plunder. This democratic idea gave rise to the short live Pirate republic state on Nassau against during the same time period of rise of absolutism. This romantic idea of breaking from social class to claim your own freedom for the sole sake of freedom and joy and will fight with flaming passion aga...