High Seas, High Profits!

Pros:
- Great visuals
- Intuitive gameplay
- It scratches the trading itch that most of the classics did
- The tutorial does a good job of getting you started and the game gets you hooked pretty fast.
Cons:
- I'd love to see some QoL improvements going down the line: being able to select my ship in map view, a quick view of all 'cheap' items from a city
- Not of fan of the font. It's pretty but hard to read.

A trading game like the Patrician series or Port Royale. Accordingly, the game mechanics are similar in trading, building and also in the quests and characteristics of the crew. However, the focus here is entirely on the core mechanics of trading, which is incredibly helpful and actually a lot of fun. It simply focuses on the essentials and not distracting with unnecessary stuff. For beginners, there are hints and warnings when goods are bought above the normal price. One can see what the goods production costs and so always have an orientation in which price range one should move. The pirates can be “removed” before the start of the game, depending on the difficulty level, and by selecting a turn-based game mode, you can put together an extremely comfortable, bustling trading session in which you can spend hours optimizing. The pirates already appear very aggressive on the overview map due to their cruising style and therefore the in-game description “suspicious” is - to put it kindly - accurate.
The generation of the map is particularly nice, as it really enables many new game variants. Every game is a new challenge for your optimization muscle. ;)
In short, a really nice game if you like that "buy low and sell high" games.

This was a nice little surprise to stumble across. Appears to be an attempt at a modern day Port Royale sort of game. Haven't played it super long yet, but the graphics are charming, the music is nice, and the game play hits just right for this genre. I hope this game does well. Seems to be well optimized, as I didn't suffer from any lag or run into any sort of errors or crashes during my first session. I haven't had a chance to get into piracy mechanics yet, so I can't comment on those at this point.
In terms of feedback for the developer(s): It plays super well as is, but it might be nice to some a few more advanced goods, especially ones that use more than one resource. It would be nice if your convoy inventory also displayed the average price of the goods you've paid in it's little UI box, if for no other reason than for knowing how much you're earning/donating to governors.
Really enjoying the game a lot. If you like merchant/trading games, this is a pretty easy recommendation.

Fun game, but can't seem to sell any of these ship pirates keep giving me for free.
The pirate union is too strong leaving me unable to fire these scurvy dogs forcing me to pay tons of wages.
-Edit
From pirate encounters alone I had about 12 ships split into 4 different convoys, but my taxes quickly became higher than what I was getting from income so I tried to just sail a convoy of my 7 uncoolest ships into the sunset... they took damage until they were all at 1 hull then became an immortal costly slow moving mass of smoldering taxes.
Until you can sell ships or atleast destroy them like you can shops you'll have to play without pirates, because slowly but surely you're going to amass a costly armada that can't trade as fast as they slowly tax you to death.
-Edit Edit
As on the 7th we can now sell ships, great update! I already gave a thumbs up, I just wanted to let the dev know this was a great update.

This is a trading simulation game that draws inspiration from classic titles like "Port Royale," and "Patrician 3". Switch between real-time and turn-based strategy modes. The game focuses on trading, city development, and dealing with various challenges in a procedurally generated world. If creating automated trade routes, building production lines and doing the odd quest sounds like fun , this game is for you. As a big fan of Patrician 3 this game scratches the same itch.
I am having a great time with the game!

I've been waiting for the game's release for some time now, and it's finally here!
The game is fun if you enjoy building your economic empire from the ground up. The vibe is chill and relaxing, I dare say, I felt like an honest pirate :))
Some aspects of the game feel a bit rough around the edges, but I've really enjoyed it so far. Can't wait to find that OP trade route to quickly grow my new empire.
Keep up the good work, Lexy, the game has huge potential!

Absolutely loving it so far! Excited to see where it goes from here.
Pros: The game is made by a single guy but this has the potential to be big. The visual style is very clean and fluent. The music is perfect for the game. It’s fun if you like trading games.
Cons: The UI could use improvement, the font is not easy to read. Some things are too tiny. There are many tooltips and sometimes they get stuck and you have to click around them.