Nantucket-Whaling Sim

This game deserves it’s own thread for tips and questions. And here’s the first:

Between my eyes and my monitor I find the font almost impossible to read. Is there a way to enlarge it?

https://www.nantucket-ma.gov/

I don’t have any idea what this is? Any info, maybe a link? :)

This is Nantucket.

I only want this if I can play as a whale.

What resolution are you playing at?

I would buy that game.

Tom streamed this game , TWICE.

I can’t tell what kind of game this is. Is this like a Sunless Sea kind of thing?

If only someone could have described the game in the thread title for us!

Suggested title:

Nantucket: Moby Dick, The Game

I’ve tried two - 1280x1024 and 1280x720

Those are pretty low resolution, for sure. You are having a hard time seeing that? The images on the Steam page are around 720p and they look very readable. Maybe use your phone and take an off-monitor pic of what the game looks like so we can see what issue you face?

is there a resolution for 1920 x 1200 ?

asking for a friend,

I assume these are 1:1 with your monitor resolutions?

Are impressions or opinions of gameplay as yet?

ACG gives it a buy:

I’ve been reading Moby Dick for the past 6 months… tempted…

My first captaincy lasted eight days. I took a mission to find the fate of a ship and my captain died fighting a war canoe. So yeah that was good for a laugh.

My best run lasted 3-4 years and I’ve not given up on going Ironman for those achievements. I don’t know what kind of legs this thing has. I’ve noticed that the whale hunting grounds don’t really move from game to game, so if you’ve got a good memory/recording of them you can go hunting when those are in season pretty reliably.

Tom Mc

Yes. My monitor died last week and I’ve been using an old one as backup, until my new gaming rig gets here, which should be next week. 1280x1024 is as high as it goes.

I enjoy it so far, but I do not know how long it will hold my interest. The combat is die-based and quick like a board game (this is a good thing), there’s risk and resource management leading to some interesting dilemmas (e.g., do I take less water to make room for more blubber and risk dying of thirst if the winds are unfavorable?), and it has a soundtrack comprised of sea shanties. There’s lots to like, but I am disappointed to hear that the map does not change much from game-to-game regarding the breeding grounds and such.

I am currently saving up my funds to buy a better ship. Early on, I travelled the world doing delivery and investigation (the “learn the fate of…” ones) quests, but I think it’s probably better to stay in one area and hunt whales in their breeding grounds and migration routes initially. I also learned that it is a bad idea to fight pirates when you are starting out, which I sort of suspected but wanted to find out for sure anyway (spoiler: I died).