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Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates pc Game Reviews
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Critic Score
Metascore: 78 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.7 out of 10
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Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is an online game in which you play a Pirate character in an ocean world. Hundreds of your fellow player Pirates swarm these Isles and Sea-lanes. For Pirates who love acronyms, Puzzle Pirates is an massively multi-player online roleplaying game, or mmoarrrrpg. Pirates can wander around on land and sail the thirty-seven seas with their crew. When your Pirate sails, or swordfights, or navigates, the appropriate Puzzle game is launched. Good Puzzling thereby brings victories and accrues great fortunes to you and your fellow Pirates. Thus Yohoho! brings you Puzzling fun in a social Piratical setting, where every Puzzle game contributes to the greater story of your Pirate, her Crew, and the Ocean world. [Three Rings]

PUBLISHER: Three Rings Design, Inc. / Ubisoft
DEVELOPER: Three Rings Design, Inc.
GENRE(S): Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, Puzzle
PLAYERS: Thousands
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2005

What The Critics Said

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95
Worth Playing
Puzzle Pirates takes several well-established internet games, mixes in some excellent new ideas, and ties them all together with a friendly, simple theme that's interesting, fun, and certainly inoffensive.
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86
GameZone
The puzzle variety is large enough to keep you from getting bored, and with room for your character to expand you’ll be surprised at how much you actually play.
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85
IGN
The puzzles are very interesting and there is a form of leveling, albeit abstract. A pretty deep player economy is built in as well. The entire game is well put together, even if the graphics and sounds aren't of Galaxies caliber.
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85
Warcry
The graphics were an absolute delight, blatantly cartoon-y and so bright and colorful that my first sight of the game always made me smile.
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81
GameSpot
For big-time puzzle fans who like the idea of competitive and cooperative puzzling online, Puzzle Pirates may be just what you're looking for.
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80
1UP
Stands out in a sea of competitors not because of an enormous budget, years of hype or an expensive movie license, but because it's simply unique and fun.
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76
PC Gamer
Adds a chatty, entertaining social angle to the addictive stable of PopCap-type games that otherwise lead to loneliness, depression, and suicide instead of glory on the lawless oceans. [Aug 2005, p.76]
70
Computer Games Magazine
While it's true that none of the individual puzzles glue you to the screen like the latest quest in "Star Wars Galaxies" or "Guild Wars" might, it's still frighteningly easy to sink several hours into this ocean before realizing it. [Oct 2005, p.82]
70
Cheat Code Central
The atmosphere more than makes up for any shortcomings in the visual department. Communication with other players is easy and the sense of community is quite refreshing.
40
Boomtown
It may not be the worlds greatest game but it still brings a lot of funny perspectives into the world of massive multiplayer online games.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 9.7 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Lucy K. gave it a10:
I love the game! I'm totaly addicted!

Nick C. gave it a10:
There's no such thing as Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates! It's the best free (if you play free) internet game, EVER! I would like to see a game replace it. It's even better than lots of "real console" games. You really get hooked and you can waste all day playin' it. You can always get better so the value/durability (not sure how to say it, but I hope you understand) is at max. Graphic is a little childish, but in a good way. There's no really music in the game, but how much music kan be added to such a game? I just use Media Player to fill the need of music. Everyone can play it. Sayin' no more 'bout that. The only bad thing is that you'll spend thoundsands of hours on this game (if you really get into it).

Tuukka Juvonen gave it a10:
Puzzle Pirates is a ''MMOarrrRPG''. The idea of the game is not to ''Pwn the 5 level goblin to get the level up'', but the game is built on a world of puzzles. There's a puzzle or two for anyone: Are you more interested in fine art shipwrightery or do you enjoy a fast-paced swordfight? Every mate start as a greenie (not a n00b like in other games) , trying duty puzzles like carprentry (repairing the vessel). After a quick ''tutorial'', ye can take a job on a vessel and go pillaging with up to 158 other mates! The athmosphere on pillages is absolutely fantastic because of chatting and funny pirate language. I enjoy much more of a pillage than a gangfight in games like Runescape, where you die and 30 guys come repeat ''n00b'' next to you. The one of the wondurous achievements of Three Rings Inc. is the player-run economy. Thou the commodities come from NPPs (Non-player pirates), all the stalles and shoppes are owned by players. All the basics are right, you have ie. about 10 chat channels, in-game report system for bugs and players, a button for asking help from the ''Oceanmasters'' and so on. And when ye can subscribe or buy doubloons, ye don't neccasarily need any real money to play, there's great updates all the time, and ye can make friends easily, why don't ye start playing? Thou Puzzle Pirates isn't gifted with enormous budget or a huge develoment team (but they have a exprienced one), it's new ideas, great gameplay system, sociality and a nifty community make it the best MMOarrrRPG ever.

Sandy H. gave it a10:
I play this game and it is great.I love the whole idea of a player based econmy.And to take over isles and govern them. New isles open every month.

Sinn gave it a10:
I'm not really into the whole MMO gaming scene but I love this game!

Ron M. gave it a10:
Great collection of puzzle games! Gfx are fantastic.

C M gave it a6:
Way down deep, it's shallow. Got hooked and burnt out in little over two months. There's a limited amount of puzzles. The scoring system is so obscure that you're never quite sure if you are improving or not. The economic system leads to the traditional MMORPG flaw of defeating a bunch of NPCs, right after another, just so you can "reach the next level" or, in this case, buying new swords and ships. A huge influx of immature players makes this more like an AOL chatroom with puzzles than a pirate themed game. Worth trying the free trial, but don't make any plans of long term play.

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