Neat game. The spirit of exploration is captured well.

You managed to put in both sea and land traversal, which is cool. Events are well done. My expedition lasted for 105 days, at which point I ran out of food. Most of the hunting expeditions failed. Should have tried fishing I guess. Nice procedural generation. Would have liked more variety in the islands though.

Overall this is a good jam game, which can potentially be improved further. All the best!

PS: Immediately recognised the soundtrack. Thimras composed the track (and contributed it to OGA) originally for our “War-Ships” game in 2022. Brings back memories!

Very cool experience you crafted here! I played through twice, died the first time and did a full year the second time but wasn't able to find it :( I still enjoyed my time exploring the seven seas though! Well done! Thanks for making and sharing it :)

I really enjoyed the emergent narrative here! I agree with others that it was a bit easy -- gathering a huge amount of resources and more personnel than could fit on any boat known to history was pretty straight forward -- but I was compelled to find that lost city, so I took my floating nation-state to every corner of the map until I found it. I found the movement a bit jarring, how it inched forward on press, then zoomed across the waters -- I had to backtrack quite often after jetting past landmarks. However, it doesn't seem that time was a resource worth worrying about.

Would like to say that our game also had to make sacrifices to complexity and challenge in the interest of releasing something that works, so I understand completely! Just putting it out there for future iterations.

Really fun experience! The exploration and resource management reminded me a lot of the early ultima games. One thing, since the controls are predominantly keyboard based, having the random encounter options be selectable by keyboard would have been a nice option (so I can be lazy and not have to reach for my mouse :P)

Nice work, it kinda turned out into a very chill sailing game. It reminded me a bit of Pirates!

The generation of islands is quite nice and I like all the flavour with events. It does become easy once you know how to exploit it.

I had an event that gave me the choice of stealing cursed gold for some natives, the hover over text said "set take cursed gold flag to true" which does get across what it does but it feels too technical for flavour text. Not sure if it was a place holder or not.

Speaking of that event I could spam hunt on an island and basically get endless treasure so i just gave the locals their measly 8 gold back when I had near 100.

Regardless, I had a bunch of fun with this and I like the nautical song in the background, very fitting.

Quite attracted to this game. I feel like you've opened a lot of cool doors and you needed more time to get all the magic to operate (for instance its unclear at first glance what role the various resources play or how the correlation between a move and time affects the game).

Also I love sailing games :)

I liked the whole game especially the event system! I've always wanted to build something like that. Nicely done.

It was fun to explore and uncover what is behind the hidden fogs and I looked forward to finding another new interaction and story as I "journeyed" through! I would have really enjoyed more story and variation of the events along with more clear explanation on what all the resources mean.

I loved the game! The fog of war makes exploring the game, especially in the first few minutes, exciting and slightly scary.

The small stories told through dialogues and missions/choices are fun and create a certain lore for the world. I must have played for about 15 minutes; if there had been more variations, I would definitely have played longer.

As time went on, I understood what was worth the risk and what wasn't. In a way, the game is "easy," once you understand that fishing and fresh water are risk-free, so you don't have many reasons not to avoid a fight with pirates, giving them food, or risking your crew on dangerous hunts. I would have had more fun with a slightly more punitive system.

I'd like to say that whenever possible, I took the natives' gold and accepted being considered a traitor by them 😅

Finally, I was almost accepting that there was no lost city, but I was happy being a successful sailor and exploring the seven seas, when finally... I found it 😍

Finally, congratulations on the idea and implementation. I'm a fan of management games; it's one of my favorites so far!

It’s not my usual genre but it was a nice experience. Finding point of interest and gestion of resource was nice but may need balance to make it challanging.

I also don’t really like the controls, nothing wrong with them but WASD isn’t for me, i’m left hand and use the mouse in my left hand so WASD a no go. I prefer Arrow key or custom binding. So with some more accessibility it could be nicer (honestly, a lot of game only got WASD since it’s kinda the “default” settings)

Got me thinking of Mount and Blade when playing, very good concept, had a lot of ideias just exploring and interacting with natives in all kind of islands, got me a lot of days to finish the game, i had 72 gold and 200 pop. well done!

the gameplay reminds me a lot of some old roguelike games, the roleplay is top notch, feels very immersive. i got luck found the lost city in only 91 days :)

I'll add this to the favorites to replay since I didn't finish it. I just spent a bunch of time explording the islands, it was surprisingly calming :) the reduced art style is a really good fit for this game. I liked the mix of exploration and rng/rpg-ey elements

It took me 291 days, but I have found the Lost City! The game is fun, although once I got the resource economy rolling, no event I've encountered has stopped my daring crew with a healthy dose of overpreparedness.

Genuinely impressive for a single person! Very fun little game though, interesting take on a style of game that I generally like. Only thing I'd recommend for next time is to make it scale a bit, resolution-wise, because it was very hard to see the little bits, but great shot!

I enjoyed this map uncovering game, nice work!  Finding the lost city was like finding a needle in a haystack but the uncovering mechanic and all the nice little dialogues kept me going.  It took me two playthroughs and around 300 days on the second one to find the city but I eventually got there.

The game reminded me a lot of the sailing mechanics from Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire, and just like that game, here they were well written.  My favourites were the "you are what you eat" and "the real treasure" ones.

Just so you know but after a gameover your previous resources carry over (even if negative).  I lost the first time due to running out of sailors so started with -1 and had to find a village before the day ended where I would have lost the game.  The nice thing is the treasure I found on playthrough 1 also carried over so it made it a lot easier after that.