Pirates of the Caribbean

Pirates of the Caribbean is a role-playing game in which the player takes the role of a pirate who has to grow in skill by fighting, trading and solving quests. The player can buy and upgrade a ship, sign-up a…

49 1 July 2003 ESRB T

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Historical Open world

Pirates of the Caribbean is an adventure developed by Akella, released 1 July 2003 on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 18 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Pirates of the Caribbean is

Pirates of the Caribbean is an adventure game developed by Akella and released in 2003. It was published by 1C Company. It is available on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on STORM Engine. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After a fierce storm, Captain Nathaniel Hawk arrives on the island of Oxbay. His first mate Malcolm Hatcher is retiring, and so Hawk must hire a new first mate and crew. As he leaves Oxbay, a French armada attacks the colony and captures it. Hawk manages to slip away and warn the English governor on Redmond Island, Robert Christopher Silehard, that Oxbay was attacked. The governor sends Hawk on a series of quests to aid him in the war against France: Nathaniel is sent to investigate the condition in Oxbay; prevent a supply ship from reaching Oxbay; unload English troops in the jungles of Oxbay and rescue the English spy from the clutches of the French. While preparing for his next quest -…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Disney series

Pirates of the Caribbean is the 230th of 516 entries we hold in the Disney series. The next entry was 625 Sandwich Stacker in 2003. Its critic score of 49 is 17 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Kingdom Hearts III at 90.

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How it was received

Pirates of the Caribbean holds a critic score of 49 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 20 points below the year average. Players rate it 65, 16 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

What it launched against

Pirates of the Caribbean launched on 1 July 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.

Cheats and codes

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