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Nantucket

Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of…

80 18 January 2018

Nantucket is an adventure developed by Picaresque Studio, released 18 January 2018 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Nantucket is

Nantucket is an adventure game developed by Picaresque Studio and released in 2018. It was published by Fish Eagle. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
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How it plays

Its themes are historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Nantucket holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Nantucket launched on 18 January 2018, within three weeks of Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus and Shadow of the Colossus (2018). All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus, Shadow of the Colossus (2018).

Official trailer

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When did Nantucket come out?
Nantucket was released on 18 January 2018 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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