Highly recommended!" Your rum-drinking swashbuckling friend, DB. Highly recommended if you want a fun pirate adventure that by some magic fits into a tiny box that won't take up much space at all. There are some small niggles that stop this from being higher rated by me but, I still love this game and I am very excited to try the expansion (Curse of Amdiak). It is all you could want from a pirate game and then some. Final Score: 8/10 Overview: "You can fight, steal, plunder, search and bury treasure. My other issue with the game is that getting the loot onto the boats can be extremely fiddly and sometimes leads to ships falling over, cubes falling out and this can quickly become tedious. I downloaded one from BGG (link - ) and it is highly recommended!! Thanks to whoever made this. There is a constant need for play to check symbols and the rule book needs to be close at hand. There is a lot of symbology in this game and it can be pretty daunting trying to find your way through. One thing that this game is sourly missing is a player aid or 4. It all really helps to increase the quality of your gameplay experience. Great boats, cool cannon pieces, boats with sails you have to insert, and really nice dice too. The components in Tiny Epic Pirates are excellent and the pieces are all very thematic. This feels very much like a big box game. It is a very piratey adventure and it does not at all feel like a game coming from the tiny box size it comes in. Getting extra movement, attack or even battle dice can really improve your chances of winning.
Increasing your stats and notoriety feels awesome and well earnt. Fighting others, including the merchant ships, is never easy to win so when you do win it feels great. Having said this, a lot of the game feels really fun and exciting. The location of your randomized actions does not really affect each player and things like this feel to me like they could have been streamlined a little to save time during set-up and to make gameplay a little smoother. In my opinion, it is a little bit too fiddly. Choosing your captains' orders and doing actions is a little bit fiddly. Then, it is time to chase down and battle those scallywags. The flow of the game soon becomes apparent, then at the end you realize that you may need to adapt your strategy in order to stop one of your fellow pirates from winning. This means you must reach your maximum 3 times before you can win the game. You can also increase your crew to help with battles and you must pay 12 or 13 doubloons to bury treasure where your max for holding doubloons is 13. To do this you need to earn coins by selling plundered or stolen loot, searching for treasure, fighting the other players, or fighting the merchant ships. The main aim is to bury your 3 treasure chests before the other player/s can bury theirs. Each player sets up their captains' actions randomly on their ship board and there are 5 randomized actions and 1 action that is the same for all (the Hide Out action). Thank god for Dized!! We used the app and it is super clear and easy to follow. This was especially tough on our first game. There are lots of fiddly rules and quite a bit of setup. The gameplay to start with is actually quite hard to get into. There are even little sails that you have to attach to the ships. There are pirate ships, map tiles, deck hand cards, merchant ships/cards, trading post cards, gold doubloons, stock cubes, and other pieces. The Tiny Epic Games really pack a punch and this is maybe the beefiest one yet (that I have seen). Being a massive fan of pirate games I was super excited to get this and get it to the table. As a wonderful surprise, I was sent this game for review.
This does not affect my opinions or views on the game but, you should keep this in mind when reading my review. The awesome people at Gamelyn Games (who make the awesome Tiny Epic Dungeons) very kindly sent me both Tiny Epic Pirates and Tiny Epic Zombies for review. Review #64 - Tiny Epic Pirates Designed by Scott Almes.
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