This is a new game that was just released on steam today, August 2nd, developed by Nitro Games. It looked a lot like Sid Meier's Pirates!, but doesn't live up to the expectations that Pirates! left behind- although, Pirates! was a full retail game and this is merely $19.99. You have a ship that you control, via mouse or keys, which controls very much like an arcade pirate game would. It is all direct control, there isn't any consideration for wind or current and the ships have special weapons that are very unrealistic. I am not saying that arcade games like this are bad, but when a game is so similar to another game, all I can do is see comparisons. Another similarity is that they both have land combat. The land combat in Pirates of the Black Cove plays out like an adventure game, one in which you control many units at once. There is little strategy to land combat, mostly existing as a chaotic mash up, where all your units are flailing around in a big mass of bodies. I am a bit let down by land battles; I actually saw a bit of promise with ship combat, but with land battles I felt nothing.