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After five hours with highly anticipated pirate survival game Windrose, I can see why it's one of Steam's most wishlisted games

You could lock me into a chest packed with pieces of eight then toss me into a churning sea of pirate games and I'd still tell you there aren't enough of them as I slowly sink toward Davy Jones' Locke

After five hours with highly anticipated pirate survival game Windrose, I can see why it's one of Steam's most wishlisted games

You could lock me into a chest packed with pieces of eight then toss me into a churning sea of pirate games and I'd still tell you there aren't enough of them as I slowly sink toward Davy Jones' Locker. Whether it's Sea of Thieves, Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, Monkey Island, or Sid Meier's Pirates, if there's a swash to be buckled or a parrot to be shouldered, I'm there. So when other nautically minded sorts started seafoaming at the mouth over piratical PvE survival game Windrose's Steam demo

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