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Pirates! Showdown – Entertainment Game Review
Pirates! Showdown is a Entertainment/Action/Strategy game from Flashpoint Games, LLC, first launched in 14th December 2012.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 58+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pirates! Showdown Stand Out
Pirates! Showdown is a fast-paced strategy game combining real-time strategy(RTS) and defense tactics.
3rd place on list of best tablet games!
Digital Trends
"Seriously, this is a very cool game!"
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5 Stars – Wickedly entertaining. A must have.
5 Stars – Great game. Easy to play, many skill levels, totally entertaining.
5 Stars – Awesome. Most addicting game!!!!
Face off against the fearsome Red Hand privateers in thrilling head-to-head pirate battles on the high sea! Capture towns and other structures to strengthen your defense and increase your gold supply. Capture your enemy's base to win, but make sure you are also defending your own base! 75 levels plus randomly generated maps in skirmish mode!
STREAMLINED RTS!
Fast paced gameplay with RTS and defense tactics without heavy resource management or the need to micro-manage units. Designed for iPhone and iPad.
WEIGH ANCHOR!
Command your fleet of pirate ships as you send them to intercept the enemy pirates or lay siege to land targets. Send an armada of Brigantines or save your gold for a massive Ship of the Line!
CAPTURE!
Towns, guard towers, shipyards, lighthouses, mystical obelisks, and more can all be captured. Structures all have a unique purpose and will supply you with gold, attack your enemy, buff up you ships, allow you to launch more ships, etc.
UPGRADE!
Upgrade towns to increase gold production. Upgrade guard towers to increase their firepower and strengthen your defenses.
STRATEGY!
Will you aggressively capture towns to loot their gold or invest in the towns you have to increase their gold production? Wage a purely pirate ship battle or strengthen your defenses with upgraded guard towers? Find the right RTS strategy to beat each level.
75 UNIQUE LEVELS IN FOUR WORLDS!
Combat the enemy in the tropical Caribbean then follow them into Hades in the River Styx world. And the Open Sea and Chaos Ocean worlds have the largest levels of all
SKIRMISH MODES!
Two skirmish modes provide an infinite number of randomly generated maps and instant action
CONTROL TIME SPEED!
At any time you can speed up or slow down time to play at your own pace. Allow yourself more time to prepare your strategy or speed up your opponent's demise!
ADJUSTABLE DIFFICULTY!
Set the game to be as easy or as difficult as you want. Replay levels to beat them on harder difficulty levels
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pirates! Showdown is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th November 2018
Recent improvements include:
Support latest iOS. Performance optimization. Bug fixes
Download & Availability
Pirates! Showdown is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pirates! Showdown 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:
Love this game. A few small ways to make it better though to the developers. A reset button to replay it!!! A ship counter on the screen to let you know how many ships you can create befor you hit max ships. Much more visual seperatations between the military and monetary monaliths. But we go back and replay entire game about every 3 weeks and love it and their other game War showdown.
This game is one of our favorite strategy games for our iPad! Dont know why this isnt more popular. Please give this a shot.
Thanks so much for updating this amazing game so we can once again play it, it is so much fun.
This game will certainly entertain for hours however, it is very repetitive and is more akin to a free flash game. The game play is essentially a stripped down tower defense except the player, for some odd reason controls when new ships spawn. The game completely lacks depth and can be beaten with little effort or thought. Additionally, this game is not at all optimized and despite its PS1 era graphics, drains our battery way too fast. No substance, just a time waster. Id recommend that you dont buy this game for the reasons listed previously.
This game is an innovative approach to the action/strategy concept with intriguing gameplay, interesting and varied levels, 5 levels of play, and exciting finales to each level. We definitely recommend it for anyone who's never tried it.
Our 2nd review. Enjoy the game so much, after completing all levels, we deleted the app just to download it again……lol. Absolutely love this game.
Awesome game to kill the time and we find ourselves playing it over and over again because every battle is different each time you play it.
Really fun, simple to understand. Get this and have fun.
Worth the 2bucks as long as they do not follow what ae battleship did. Cram user with commercials after paying for game.
This game mechanics is awesome. ! We keep checking for sequel. Please make it :) – ryan.
This game is a relaxation therapy for us, let's us get out of a stress filled day and just relax in the sea lol.
Our son and we enjoy playing this game.
Update please!! We love this game.
We love this game but it needs to be updated for the new iOS. Please update so that we can play again.
We like it a lot but it has been about three since we first got the game and it still doesn't have a update.
Very addicting! The rts controls are simplified so you can jump right into the combat in each level. Looks great on the iPad retina display. The last update added a lot of new levels. Still play this game a lot.
Nice balance between simple to learn and challenging to win.
This game was fun to play and somewhat addictive, and the controls were simple to use. Having said, we agree with another commenter that they really do need to fix, the zoom in/out ability, upgrades to ships, and ability of ships to target specific things. Also, we had many problems trying to upgrade shooting towers, as almost every time we tried to tap it to upgrade it, it would launch a ship instead. Perhaps a plus button next to each upgrade-able item.
Great game worth 99 cents very addictive loads of fun.
A great, fun, and easy game to learn. Similar in battle to Sid Meyers pirates.
Easy to play, but no an easy game. Has a nice tutorial when you first play as well, which helped get us started.
This game is very addicting. The tutorial is quick and easy and you get to the action from the start. The game play is simple and the difficulty is just high enough to keep you coming back for the challenge.
Awesome little game, works great with the touch interface. :).
We measure a game's worth by how long it takes for us to put it away. This one is a keeper. It starts with an excellent tutorial and a handful of easier levels. Then the fun begins. Found the AI to be challenging enough and the levels increase in difficulty nicely. Most definitely recommend.
Would be something cool if more of a fleet battle control. Just more a line drag attack. Then a 3d battle takes place. One against all.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.2
- Size: 108.66 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Flashpoint Games, LLC
Last updated: 28th November 2018 | Genre: Entertainment, Action | Developer: Flashpoint Games, LLC