Nantucket - Steam Key
metacriticPicaresque Studio
Jan 17th, 2018
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Description
Set sail and explore the seas
Set sail around the world, visit cities, and increase your prestige by hunting whales, landing jobs, and searching for new adventures.
Be the captain you want to be
Develop your character in true RPG fashion, by increasing your stats, choosing your reactions, and developing your seafaring skills.
Manage your ship and crew
Hire and manage your crew, give them tasks on your ship, and improve your ship with new compartments, expanding your ship's capabilities.
Experience the Golden Age of whaling
Experience more than a thousand unique events tailored around your choices—and face the results of your actions.
Hunt whales and fight pirates
Discover new whaling areas, hunt whales for blubber, and protect your ship from pirates using a turn-based combat system.
Chase after Moby Dick
Follow an original story line and complete quests to unveil the secrets behind Moby Dick and dissolve Ahab’s curse.
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About Nantucket
Developed by Picaresque Studio and published by Fish Eagle, Nantucket was released on January 18, 2018 and immediately distinguished itself as one of the most original indie strategy games of its year — a seafaring RPG that takes Herman Melville's Moby Dick as its starting point and asks what happens next. Playing as Ishmael, the sole survivor of the Pequod's fateful voyage, players must rebuild from nothing — hiring a crew, acquiring a ship, and setting sail across a richly detailed map of the world's oceans in pursuit of whaling grounds, trading opportunities, and eventually the white whale itself.
The gameplay blends crew management, ship progression, and world exploration with over 1,000 unique narrative events that unfold based on your decisions, your crew's composition, and the choices you make as captain. Events range from weather crises and crew disputes to encounters with pirates, sea creatures, and characters drawn from Melville's literary world — each one contributing to an emergent story that feels genuinely personal to each playthrough. Turn-based combat handles both whale hunting and pirate encounters, with dice-based mechanics that reward careful crew skill development and tactical positioning. The ship itself can be upgraded with new compartments that expand its capabilities — additional storage, better crew quarters, improved weapons — creating a progression loop that keeps the early to mid-game consistently rewarding.
Nantucket holds a Strong rating on OpenCritic with praise across 15 critic reviews for its atmosphere, its faithful use of the source material, and the quality of its narrative event writing — described by Eurogamer as a game where "the fiction elevates everything."
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System Requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP or newer (64 bit)
- Processor
- 2 Ghz or more
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- DirectX 9.0c compatible
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Storage
- 1000 MB available space
- Sound Card
- DirectX 9.0c compatible
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This is a Steam key, a unique digital code that activates Nantucket on your own existing Steam account. Once activated, the game is permanently added to your library and is yours to keep forever.
This is a Global key and works in most countries worldwide. Check the activation details on the product page before purchasing if you are unsure about your specific country.
No. Nantucket provides enough context about its source material for players unfamiliar with Herman Melville's novel to follow and enjoy the story. That said, players who know Moby Dick will find additional depth in the game's characters, events, and narrative references — the game rewards familiarity with the source material without requiring it.
No. Nantucket is a single-player game only. There is no multiplayer or co-op mode.
A single playthrough of Nantucket takes approximately 10 to 15 hours depending on playstyle and difficulty. The over 1,000 unique narrative events and procedurally varied world create meaningful replayability — a second playthrough with a different captain build and crew composition tells a noticeably different story.
Nantucket can be unforgiving, particularly in the early hours before your crew and ship are developed. Resource management, crew morale, and the unpredictability of narrative events create genuine tension. The game rewards patience and careful decision-making rather than fast reflexes — players who enjoy management and strategy games will find the difficulty appropriately challenging rather than punishing.
Nantucket is not demanding by modern standards and runs on virtually any current PC without issues. Check the Steam store page for the full system requirements before purchasing.