I enjoyed all 6 hours honestly.

It does exactly what it says on the tin. Pirate ship sim multiplayer game. Which is what I've wanted for years, it's been so long since there has been anything close to decent.

I want a ship sim, not running around swording things, which as another commenter mentioned, would not work in a multiplayer game with ship combat.

It's a solid multiplayer game at low levels it seems. Outpost raids can get quite intense and you need to be careful with your ship.

Has different ship types so you can specialise for group content. Tanking ships, dps ships and support ships. Each have different bonuses also within their field, e.g. Some dps ones built for ramming etc.

There are multiple build options with your choices of Cannons and other weaponry options. Long cannons for slow firing, long range high damage. Demi cannons for close range shotguns. Mid range standard cannons. Bombards for lobbing explosive shells longer range but slow firing. You can load out each side front and back of your shop depending what type of ship you have with different load outs.

There are also schematics for even more specialised weapons within a category that specialise in targeting sails, causing flooding or fires etc. As well as multiple options for armour plating and buff furniture.

Enemy ships have weak spots you can snipe with your guns so you feel rewarded for good aiming.

The general quests early on are a mix of fetch quests and combat quests. Early on if you are running solo you have to pick your fights or be quite good if you are encountering multiple enemies at once.

Outpost plunderong was quite fun and I participated in a couple with some random folks early on. Bigger settlements I didn't try to plunder yet but from the number of towers and such around these definitely would be group combat.

Several world events popping up from time to time that seem to be large scale combats and almost like MMO Raids.

Trade system is decent, buy low sell high at different outposts. I quite enjoy trade in games so it was fun picking up cargoes as I went and figuring out the best places to take them.

TLDR. Its a multiplayer ship sim. It's been years since there has been a half decent one. And it does this job really well I feel. I'm very interested to see what more endgame type content feels like.

Think. Sea of Thieves but less silly, more focused on the ship combat, and with a great degree of customisation, cosmetically and functionally.