[Review Thread] Port Royale 4

Game Information

Game Title: Port Royale 4

Platforms:

  • PC (Sep 25, 2020)
  • PlayStation 4 (Sep 25, 2020)

Trailers:

Developer: Gaming Minds

Publisher: Kalypso Media

Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 69 average - 29% recommended - 14 reviews

Critic Reviews

33bits - Euyen Esquefa Pons - Spanish - 75 / 100

Port Royale 4 is a remarkable management game and a nice continuation of the saga. Unfortunately, some design decisions tarnish a game that could have been a worthy heir to the yet to be surpassed Port Royale 2.


COGconnected - Haley Perry - 68 / 100

Overall, Port Royale 4 lends beautiful design to its historical ships and detailed buildings, and the turn-based strategy naval battles are a nice change of pace from the large, lulling overview map you will spend most of your time in.


Chicas Gamers - Adrián de Francisco - Spanish - Unscored

In Port Royale 4 we find a management game that, for our personal taste, surpasses many others in the genre due to its complexity and the different options it gives us to manage trade and resource management. All this added to the naval battles, gives a totally good game for lovers of strategy.


Digitally Downloaded - Matt Sainsbury - 4.5 / 5 stars

Port Royale 4 is the sum of easy-to-understand systems, making it entirely accessible, but it's not necessarily easy, and that's an important distinction. You'll still be challenged by what seems to be an endless stream of competing demands on your time and resources, while lacking the resources to do anything about them.


Game Debate - Stuart Thomas - 7.5 / 10

Port Royale 4 is ambitious and delivers in most regards, leading to a well rounded and beautifully choreographed world. The green tropical islands seem to breathe with life and purpose, a purpose that you influence through a variety of means, whether through trade, nationalism or just blatant piracy.


GameSkinny - Jordan Baranowski - 7 / 10 stars

There's a lot going on beneath deck in Port Royale 4, and much of it works very well. Setting up your perfect trade routes and watching all the moving pieces sail into action hits all those lizard brain elements that we love, and optimizing things when some new wrench hits the system is always a good time.


GameSpew - Kim Snaith - 8 / 10

There’s a lot of layers to Port Royale 4. Its gameplay is impressively deep, and to truly succeed at it, you need to excel at multitasking and strategising. Like any sim game, it’s not something that just anybody is going to enjoy. But if you are a fan of deep simulation games, there’s a lot to love here.


GameWatcher - Marcello Perricone - 8 / 10

A good management game with superb visuals, offering enough freedom to let you build your own merchant empire in the Caribbean to your heart's content.


GamingBolt - Matt Bianucci - 5 / 10

The complex systems at Port Royale 4's core never flourish under the weight of its uninspired moment-to-moment gameplay and lack of structural balance.


IGN Italy - Claudio Chianese - Italian - 6.9 / 10

A good trading simulation... and little else, really. Port Royale 4's weak combat system and repetitive gameplay make for a somewhat boring, if functional and honest, strategy game.


Pure Playstation - Jeremy Peterson - 6.5 / 10

Port Royale 4 is a dense trade and economy simulator that doubles as a harsh reminder that I'll probably never get to see the Caribbean in real life. Despite this cruel reminder about my personal station in life, building my own little corner of paradise in this digital world was a chill, if sometimes repetitive, experience. The learning curve is steep if it's your first time in the genre, but if navigating screens and crunching numbers is your thing, you'll be in heaven. For everyone else, it might not be for you.


Push Square - John Cal McCormick - 5 / 10

Port Royale 4's gameplay consists almost entirely of all of the bits in other strategy games that you'd normally set to "Automate" because they're fiddly and boring. It's a game set in the era of pirates with nary a hint of swashing nor buckling.


Spaziogames - Daniele Spelta - Italian - 6 / 10

Pirate's life is not an adventure in Port Royale 4


WayTooManyGames - Leonardo Faria - 6.5 / 10

Port Royale 4 is not a bad game by any means, as it does what it advertises with honors, but maybe I expected a bit more from a game centered around the golden age of piracy. This is actually a relaxing experience, but you can clearly notice it wasn’t created with consoles in mind. It is a PC game, first and foremost.


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