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Sid Meier's Pirates

Platforms

iOS
Nintendo Wii
PC
PSP
Xbox

Initial releaseDec. 31, 1987

Developers

Firaxis Games
Full-Fat

Genres

Action Adventure
Arcade
RPG
Simulation
Strategy

Publishers

2K Games
Atari

Sid Meier's Pirates Feed

Small snippets of artwork from all nine games in the RPS Game Club 2024 line-up

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Here's what's coming up in the RPS Game Club in 2024

The full schedule for the year

Jan. 22, 2024Katharine Castle

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The best pirate games on PC

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The best pirate games on PC

A treasure chest of pirate games to plunder

Jan. 1, 2023Dave Irwin

The RPS Time Capsule header for 2004

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RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2004

We list our favourite games from 2004, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else

Feb. 25, 2022Katharine Castle

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Civilization VI has gone all Sid Meier's Pirates with a swashbuckling new mode

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Civilization VI has gone all Sid Meier's Pirates with a swashbuckling new mode

Sid's back at sea.

Oct. 22, 2020Natalie Clayton

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All rise and no fall: how Civilization reinforces a dangerous myth

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All rise and no fall: how Civilization reinforces a dangerous myth

The Eternal Golden Age

March 15, 2018Alister MacQuarrie

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GOG's 2K sale features old school X-Com among others

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GOG's 2K sale features old school X-Com among others

Oct. 12, 2017Jamie Wallace

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Civ 6, EUIV and Endless Legend designers on how their strategy games create the illusion of a world

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Civ 6, EUIV and Endless Legend designers on how their strategy games create the illusion of a world

Strategy of place

June 29, 2017Oliver Milne

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Have You Played... Sid Meier's Pirates!?

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Have You Played... Sid Meier's Pirates!?

Sid's Vicious Sailors

March 17, 2015Adam Smith

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Sid Meier's Pirates Gallery

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