Puzzle Pirates (2003) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Puzzle Pirates

Brace yourself for swashbuckling puzzle action as you pillage your way to glory across the briny deep. Create and customize a pirate, collect booty, and join a player-run crew of cutthroats! Every activity in…

88 8 December 2003 Free to play

What Puzzle Pirates is

Puzzle Pirates is an adventure game developed by Grey Havens and released in 2003. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Brace yourself for swashbuckling puzzle action as you pillage your way to glory across the briny deep. Create and customize a pirate, collect booty, and join a player-run crew of cutthroats! Every activity in Puzzle Pirates is a uniquely fun puzzle: be it sailing, gunning, or hauling treasure, your own puzzling skill determines your success. Free to Play: Puzzle Pirates is free to play.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player. There are 220 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Puzzle Pirates holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 500 MHz and 256 MB of RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Puzzle Pirates launched on 8 December 2003, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Underground, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly and Manhunt. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Underground, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly, Manhunt.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Puzzle Pirates yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Puzzle Pirates — frequently asked questions

When did Puzzle Pirates come out?

Puzzle Pirates was released on 8 December 2003 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Is Puzzle Pirates free?

Yes — Puzzle Pirates is free to play.

What are the minimum PC requirements for Puzzle Pirates?

At minimum, Puzzle Pirates needs 500 MHz, 256 MB of RAM, 100 MB of storage.

How many GB is Puzzle Pirates?

The PC version needs about 0.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("100 MB"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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