Tue Oct 28 2025
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Pirate Raid: Caribbean Battle is a colorful, streamlined take on the pirate life. It strips away the complex management of traditional sims and focuses on the satisfying loop of 'sink ships, get loot, upgrade boat.' The sailing is arcade-like and responsive, making it easy to weave through enemy fire while lining up your own broadsides.
It can feel a bit repetitive after a few hours, as the core gameplay doesn't change much as you move between islands. However, the sense of progression is handled well—getting that first big galleon feels like a massive power spike. It's a perfect 'podcast game'—something you can play while listening to something else, enjoying the relaxing rhythm of the Caribbean sea.
Dynamic naval combat
Extensive ship upgrade tree
Explorable open-sea map
Base management elements
Boss battles with legendary ships
Focus on merchant ships first to gather wood and gold. Avoid large naval fleets until you have upgraded your hull at least twice, or you'll be sunk before you can fire a second volley.
Your home port isn't just for show. Invest in the shipyard first to keep your repair costs low, then focus on the market to increase the value of your stolen goods.
You start with a small raft and eventually upgrade your single primary ship into larger, more powerful vessels like Brigs and Galleons.
The only thing I dislike about the game, is the same complaint that I have about all of the other games, I’ve got to sit through a lot of ads, and I just wish this game were different, ahead of the pack of you will, and allow people to actually own this game outright, by paying a big fat full price, (I would shell out a hundred bucks for this right to own a copy of the game…easily,) and not have to sit through advertising after advertising, after advertising. Otherwise, this game is a lot of fun to play. I’ve always enjoyed the concept of pirate games, whether it’s set on the high seas, or set in far reaches of outer space, pirate games are a lot of fun to play, and this game is one of the very best. Great job, and other than not allowing people to purchase a full version of the game without having to watch ads, I give this game a solid 5 out of 5, and highly recommend it to anyone who’s likes the genre.
I have been looking for a game like this for years for the app store and finally found it! When I open it and started wrecking other ships throughout that whole time to the next island I was given about 50 ads. It would be nice to pay 99¢ to disable ads like most mobile games. Or to come up with a different idea for making money other than ads. Another thing that ruined the game for me was when I reached the second island and I had already reached level 5 for my ship on the first island I was so happy cause it was bigger. Then I was extremely disappointed to notice that my ship was back at level 1 it was smaller and I lost all my gold and barrels... The only thing that I had was the level for my pirates. If this is what the game is supposed to be I am saddened to say that I will be uninstalling this unless it is changed cause I don't want to have to grind on every island to upgrade my ship to a Galleon. The game is fun when you can listen to the music and blast some ships with your (UPGRADED) Ship and not have to worry about “If I leave this Island I'm gonna lose all my progress and have to restart from square 1 again”. Anyways I hope the Developers acknowledge this and maybe even respond. Better yet I hope this Pirate Ship issue gets fixed or changed cause it's pointless to just go to another island. I have plenty of other things to talk about that can improve this game but these two are the top 2 for me. Thank you!
Fun enough. Drive your boat shoot bad guys. However two BIG issues. 1. There is no iPhone/ipad cross play or progression. If you play on one none of your data is carried over including purchases. 2. Purchases are not recoverable if anything happens to your iPhone or ipad, like you have reset to system defaults. I have an email from developer saying this as it happened to me and I inquired. I spent $100 for a boat and gems all lost due to a random ipad issue. It is not a Game Center signed game so it does not carry into iCloud. All your progression and purchases are gone. There should be a clear warning from the developer about this. So basically play at your own risk and hope no bugs, phone/ipad issues occur and you lose everything. Game has a fun premise, but seems like a ripoff. Too many adds for everything unless you purchase parrots, which is a lame, just charge a a flat rate for no more ads periods. The company seems to want to nickel and dime you more than they want to provide a fun, engaging game with quality customer support. Updated 3/5- all in app purchases disappear once you close the app. Upon opening the app, all progress, purchases, ships gold and diamonds are gone. The reverts back to the beginning. I have called Apple and told of them of this issue and reported the app provider as possibly fraudulent.
The only reason this game gets one star is due to the little enjoyment In between ads. This game is riddled with ads in every corner, every upgrade, every time you start to enjoy the game, here comes an ad. Not just any ad though, first you wait 30 seconds on a worthless ad, then you try to close the ad, only to have it direct you to the App Store about 3 more times. Once the App Store is finally closed, then it takes you to a splash screen ad where it counts down another five seconds. These ads waste so much time and feel like scams. How many fake bingo ads claiming to give you loads of cash for playing? How many ads about a completely different game pops up asking you to ditch your current game. I’m not against ads but when you have so many and so many being deceiving, it really robs you of enjoyment for this game. Not to mention the steep price of ad removal being over $5. These micro transactions are getting ridiculous. I’ll be adding this game developer to my list of games to avoid. No enjoyment from repeating the same level with a different land and needing to watch over 100 ads. Don’t waste your time on a game like this. As for the high reviews, they seem bought.
Devs you hit a home run! Thank you so much for the update! You hit some major pain points and cleaned/polished the game. You have just enough ads where I don’t feel the annoyance of inundation of ads. I really don’t mind “saving” the stranded sailor. A paid ad free version would definitely be something I wouldn’t mind Paying for. It’s a well thought out game. There are a few bugs that I still notice. You fixed the ratio issue on iPhones but still see ships stuck in land objects. You’re still getting 5 stars from me! I also have a pirate symbol attached to my ship now I’m not quite sure what it’s for. I’m also able to shoot things outside my circle of influence which I think is not intended. Updated: so it seems the “next island” button is either broken or I’ve somehow reached the last stage. It says “You’re the greatest pirate in this sea” but doesn’t prompt to progress. Looking forward to the next update.
This game is very fun if a bit repetitive. But I did not find myself being upset by the repetitiveness. I found myself enjoying it thoroughly the entire time I was playing. Until I got to the level with the Godzilla monsters. They are absolutely and unequivocally way over powered. I was having so much fun with this game that I powered through the Japan level even though I had to kill 15 of things. After two more levels, they reappeared. And unfortunately, I am not going to be dealing with that again. They kill you in under three seconds even with full life cool attack three cannons and everything maxed out. Not only that but there been does not miss unless you have an insanely high evasion. If that gets changed, I will continue to play this game because I thoroughly enjoyed it. Until then, it’s not worth it at all. Without those monsters or with them being less powerful, this would be five stars. The fact that I’m still reading at three even with that incredible blender, shows the fact of how fun this game really is.
I don’t get how some people write essays as reviews so I’m going to keep this one fairly short. I’ve played over 360 mobile games and this one nearly tops all of them. There are a lot of ads. Like a lot. However, I’m rating five stars because the devs actually update the game often. I assuming the game is newer as I’m writing this but there’s been 2 updates the past two days that add really helpful features. Out of all of the games I’ve played, I’ve never seen devs care or update their game this much. Also, the game is pretty fun for just wasting time. You bassicly just have a pirate ship and upgrade using supplies you get from sinking other ships or killing large sea creatures which helps you also complete quests to let you travel to different oceans and do the whole thing again. I would definitely recommend this game to anybody.
More ads than I have ever seen in a game. I have no issues with ads to get gems, coins, speed things up, or even the occasional mandatory ad ever so often. I downloaded, played, and deleted this game all within 10 minutes. That said, about 8 and a half minutes of that was watching ads. Three of which, I voluntarily clicked on to gain a reward. Which I would have gladly continued to do throughout my playing session to support the devs and gain a small reward in return. However, I was bombarded with mandatory ads every few seconds afterwards. Because of this I lost any and all interest and immediately deleted the game. Devs, I understand the need for ads in game to fund and support you. But holy moly that was ridiculous. You could have and would have gained a lot more funding from me and I am sure many others if the ads were voluntary and not forced down our throats every half a second. This seemed like a interesting game from my short time playing, and it is regrettable that it was pretty much unplayable within the first few minutes.







