Last updated on December 9th, 2025 at 03:21 pm
Tempest – Pirate Action RPG – Action Game Review
Tempest – Pirate Action RPG is a Action/Roleplaying game from HC GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION LIMITED, first launched in 19th March 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 9,859+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Tempest – Pirate Action RPG Stand Out
An adventure RPG that won the hearts of over 100.000 Steam players is now on your mobile! Become a daring pirate, prowl the seas on a ship armed to the teeth, trade, and assemble your crew from the best cutthroats. You will need a massive arsenal: cannons, mortars, flame throwers, and various rigging.
But you will only earn the most devastating sea artifacts for completing difficult and interesting multilevel quests.
OPEN WORLD
Endless travels over the boundless seas, full of adventures and mysteries.
FASCINATING STORY
Over a hundred quests on dozens of islands in three regions.
PLAY WITH FRIENDS
Share the huge world of Tempest with two friends: fight a war with each other, or become companions.
NAUTICAL WONDER
Buy ships, upgrade ships, and decorate ships.
PIRACY WITH A BIT OF TRADE
To buy cheaper and to sell dearer is not a pirate's path. Rob galleons, sink warships, and destroy forts!
SEA MONSTERS
The Kraken has brought its sea friends!
NOT ONLY CANNONS
Use mystic crystals to deflect enemy cannonballs, bring meteors down on enemies, or summon a giant octopus.
ASSEMBLE A CREW OF CUTTHROATS
Upgrade your pirates from green hands to salted sea wolves.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Tempest – Pirate Action RPG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
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We've been busy improving Tempest for you. This latest update is packed with bug fixes and performance upgrades to keep everything running as smoothly as possible. Can't wait for you to check it out!
Download & Availability
Tempest – Pirate Action RPG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Tempest – Pirate Action RPG on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game never fails to impress us, we usually play this for no wifi(Im 13 year old now, been playing since we were 10) and we have to say this still keeps us entertained every day. Even in school. We love your game.
Only reason one star becouse read following we got noting to rate we got all the icons the fir the crew ship interface everything just no ocean water ship enemy ship uhm notheing just buttons id like to know how to fix please.
The fighting controls is painfully irritating thats it, we fired many shots but then the camera gets flicked to the other direction.
Hello, with all the memes about the lost submarine, it would be cool to have a mini mission where the sub went back in time or something. Maybe a new legend, etc.
We absolutely love and adore this game, we have a immense love for navel games, we Love Assassins Creed Black Flag, Rouge, and Assassins Creed 3, but none of the do what this games does, We get to permanently have a Man O War! We always find ourselves coming back for more.
This game is really fun, amazing pirate simulation game. But we have a problem, that is, after we open a new save, the "All Ships Put in Port" package that we purchased before is useless, and the Battle Jonk ship is not unlocked.
We do not like we have to pay 8 dollars for the full game so make it 5 instead, Its the best pirate game on the App Store.
This is a great game and the graphics are really good, just wondering how a ship named grim reaper suddenly got added to our ships and what does that green number next to it mean.
We had really enjoyed playing this game and its quests but their is not really much to do but drive around on a pirate ship and most of the time we are just driving so we were thinking maybe you could make a way for us to walk around on the boat and city's and Ports, also maybe some sea shanties and dialogue for players to listen to and since it is a RPG can you also make a way for us to get our own port or island as well and maybe interact with some of the NPC in the game but overall its a good game.
Perfect down to the last details.
Solid but takes some getting used to.
So we just want to make this clear, this is an amazing game, but Ive got one problem, you cant do a lot of stuff without paying for the full version. Some missions you cant do because they need to be done in other maps, you cant upgrade your ships, and you cant capture ships. Actually one more problem, there are a ton of adds, ever other time you open the map you get an add, its extremely annoying, and we think we speak for a lot of people when we say this, Im not paying any game any money. Just a suggestion: we should be able to walk around on the ports, for example we can sell stuff or buy stuff at markets or whatever theyre called back then, and maybe sometimes even come across a guy or two who wants to kill you. Just a thought. Another thought: it would be cool if we board people and kill the crew, we should be able to go into the ship and look through the cargo and take what we want.
The game keeps closing out randomly. PLS FIX.
So start off this game is the greatest pirate game ever created and ngl it rocks. But the one issue we have is we try to by the premium version and give you $7.99 but every time we click purchase it says sign in and confirm payment info which ok we will but then we click continue and it wont load! Like we left it for 40 MINUTES STRAIGHT AND IT DID NOT LOAD! It is really annoying and we are willing to give you the $7.99 but it wont let us so please fix this like PLEASE we will buy premium if it gets fixed but overall great game herocraft keep up the good work.
When we were going to purchase the full version, we got scammed and only unlocked for one thing. Please fix this.
Multiplayer needs more real players. Not NPC or AI. When will the game have text/voice chatting logs to communicate with players in multiplayer? Tournament mode is empty and hasnt seen players in years! When can we board any island and conquer land or explore? Will there be a battle pass system? This game needs to bring in more new players that play on a daily basis. Currently the multiplayer is only one or two players online. The single player is entertaining but later gets boring after months play. Multiplayer should be more interesting and more challenging. When shooting players ships sometimes multiplayer doesnt register the damage of cannon balls!? Game Balancing: please revise the Returners Ship Hull/Sail Healing Crystal because there is no easy counter to it in multiplayer and players spam it rotate ship in circles shooting cannons and never die.
No clue how to even pass the tutorial. We downloaded the game once before and downloaded it again for some dumb reason. Immediately deleted AGAIN.
Everything was normal and then the next time we played it was broken like frozen or something we cant move and only see the thing of loading the game.
The game crashes as soon as it opens up, this needs to be fixed asap. We have real cash in the game that we would perfer not to have to request back from apple if we dont have to.
Sid Meirs fans will enjoys this.
Is this game Controller compatible.
Bought a couple things in game and worked our way through this game a couple months back, decided to pick it up again but our progress is nowhere to be found? Would like to know if theres any way to get this fixed.
The original app is really good! We liked it so much, we got the DLC also, but the missions are way too hard for a phone app, especially where you have to go on land and fight 10 pirates with a sword and a pistol that takes 8 seconds to reload a single shot and no way to generate your health.
This games quality is TOP NOTCH.the waves are so realistic and they remind us of sail on vr.
The game is very good and enjoyable. Ive been playing it for a long time, but the reason why we didnt give it five stars because there are some bugs and sometimes we dont know what to do so it just takes us forever to find it but other than that, the game is the best.
Pirates of the Caribbean ToW? Heck no! Sea of Conquest: Pirate War? No shot! But this game is a masterpiece in mobile game standards. The combat, honestly, is near perfect. Its sort of a cross between Sid Meiers Pirates and Assassins Creed Black Flag (The ship combat anyways). The boarding combat is primitive, and there is room for improvement, but its still insanely fun. Of course, our opinion may change, because we havent played the game for very long so far, but we knew we had to write a review. This is the greatest pirate game on the app store, no matter what you say. It has the standards of a good pc game, and yet it runs so well on your phone. A++. Great job dev team.
Literally every button you press brings up an add. Cant even test to see if we would like the game. That is the absolute most frustrating thing Ive ever encountered. Might have paid for the game if we could have played it.
Could use new game play its fun as heck just work on updating new ships n new areas to explore awesome game though.
But it just kicks you out a lot please somebody fix it just listen.
Still enjoying the game blowing up/stealing enemy vessels only now after the latest update…. Entering the black flame port in the eastern map results in an IMMEDIATE crash to homescreen in both map view and open world sailing. We have not tried entering other ports as of writing this but we are assuming it has something to do with the game not being able to load the port menu causing the game to freak out and crash, we might attempt to reinstall and seeing if that fixes the issue we just thought we would bring this up incase others have had something similar. Update: found out that the crash happens at ALL ports WHEN NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET! No clue as to why thats going on but it does.
So Ive been playing this game for a while now and Ive always thought that the bottom of calm waters always looked kinda empty, with portals being on all sides but the bottom we think that would be a perfect place for a new sea, and since it would be a new area there could be a Greek/roman civilization with triremes and a distinct Greek theme. And we know this probably will not happen because of the whole making a whole new map/culture/faction but it could be something to make if the devs run out of ideas.
This game reminds us of the good old days playing Pirates of the Caribbean 2 we loved that edition so naturally this didnt take long to win us over. Aside from that the gameplay and interactions are great along with a great quest. Overall a great production overtime to make it even better dev can add some more ships and exciting quest with even more hands on from us the players.
Sometimes after we win a battle and try to head ashore on any of the island the game automatically crash for some reason. However besides that everything else is alright. The control and graphics and all but please double check for any bug issue that causing the game to crash.. Thank you.
It would be really cool if you added an escape button to walk around the ship and look around pls add BUT STILL SO GOOD also we need to do the tutorial again but how.
The game is actually pretty good, it may have issues in certain phones but we personally have never had a problem with the game crashing or any game breaking bugs, the gameplay is fun and interactive, ship battling is fun, battling their crew is fun, its a fun game. Our only complaint which isnt a true complaint is the graphics and model physics could be a bit better, theyre great for what they are but theres still room for improvement! 4.5/5.
Seems as if the tactical aspect of the game is clearly exceptional. Thank you.
We sadly dont have the money for the full game right now, but the free version of the game has been pretty fun so far.
We saw other comments mentioned about game crashes as well, so here just to confirm that it happens with our device as well. Great game, but recently we could never log onto it for more than a minute. Im playing it on the latest iOS.
Every time when we try to defeat a monster, it kicks us out and we had to go back again over and over again.
We like this game but please explain to us why we can only use the speed up tool with the grim reaper ship and why we only have infinite morale on that ship.
Ive been playing the game for years, we even tried to get the full version but couldnt due to the games bugs. But now we cant even log in for more than 2 seconds without the game crashing. Ive never had issues before and Im on an IPhone 11.
This game is the best game we ever played on mobile, but its lacking a little tutorial or guide etc etc kinda like another pirate game we would play on our Xbox, there would be a tutorial and hints if needed. So IF THIS GAME had something like that, we will love to play it more often rather then searching the web to find out everything.
Hello this is a amazing game but we have some ideas for you, first can you just shorten the amount of ads on the game and when you go to a port you can go of the ship and walk around the port, finally when you attack forts you can siege the fort like go inside and fight the rest of the defenders, otherwise great game.
Game is very fun and challenging. Good graphics. Smooth gameplay. If you like pirate gamesdownload.
This is by far one of the most awesome games ever, we had high expectations when we first saw this game and watched the video in the AppStore, but they were absolutely blown away when we first played the game. The combat is fun and somewhat complex which is better than just "point and shoot", the rewards in the game are also extremely satisfying. After a while we decided to buy the full version and we were not disappointed at all. It felt very worth it to buy.
In general its good, but graphics, even at high, looks 20 years outdated. Ships can sail against the wind. Yikes.
We love this game with all our passion. Good graphics, runs smoothly even on our older phone, and a lot of content that even holds up post-campaign. That being said, the game severely lacks captain customization, having only one captain you can play as (except for the DLC female one), and thats it. It would be nice to have more variety to customize our captains in the future and make them feel more connected to the ship we sail. We also really wish we could join the Returners faction. Sure, the Seekers are the human version of them, but we feel like the Returners just have so much unused potential for game content. An otherwise great game overall. 5/5.
Super dope game been playing it for year on and off always fun and hours of game time.
This really is a good mobile game and its our ideal game. Good story, good graphics that arent too realistic (because thats straight up creepy in our opinion) and good deals. We especially love using the tournament mode with our alternative devices, mainly cause we dont got friends but thats besides the point. All we ask of this game is too improve the water and land physics so that it doesnt look like it is glitching. Also, add more content. Thats about it. We hope this hame continues to receive updates.
The game has been fun so far. However, Ive tried to purchase the full version several times and the purchase will not complete. Considering how eager we are for the full version and despite our best efforts, how about a free full version.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.9
- Size: 593.70 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: HC GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION LIMITED
Last updated: 14th October 2025 | Genre: Action, Roleplaying | Developer: HC GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION LIMITED