It's £29.99 now, and will cost more at release. Also, you can become a pirate.ĭevelopers Game-Labs have been running their own early access scheme for a while, but now it's on Steam Early Access for people who insist upon such things. It sounds relatively serious, with sailing driven by wind and physics, navigation where you have to actually navigate, ballistics with ricocheting shots, nuanced locational damage, and so on. By which I mean it's a sail 'em up set during the 'age of sail', where you're free to sail and trade and fight across sandbox seas. Here's a clumsy comparison: it's a bit like EVE Online with water and boats.
The makers of Naval Action remember boats, and they've now spread that love to a wider audience by releasing the sandbox MMO on Steam Early Access. Even Queen Elizabeth II, the glorious floating cyborgpalace formed by the fusion of our wizened monarch and the life support systems sustaining her remains for millennia to come, is only visited by pensioners. Now they simply throw their iPhones in the pond and look disappointed. Once upon a time, we had a boat in every bathtub and children would flock to boating ponds after school to sail their schooners.
