Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale is an indie developed by Reload Game Studio, released 2 July 2014 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale is
Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale is an indie game developed by Reload Game Studio and released in 2014. It was published by Strategy First. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale is a strategy game whose core mechanics are based on classic board games like Chess and Checkers. The player takes control of Short Legs Bill, a fisherman with an extraordinary talent for telling lies. The adventure begins when Jake, his best friend who had enough of the lies told by Bill, decides to curse him making his biggest lie reality. This lie is nothing more nothing less than Road Jack the most terrible tyrant of the seven seas. The main theme of Run for Rum is the life of a pirate, and the goal of the game is to combine strategy with an entertaining narrative in a way that challenge and fun comes together.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale launched on 2 July 2014, within three weeks of Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin and Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
Released around the same time: Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin, Valiant Hearts: The Great War.
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When did Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale come out?
Run For Rum: A Pirate Tale was released on 2 July 2014 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
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