In Pirates: The Great Chase you can choose one of three Pirates with a different set of stats. Your goal? To find the prisoner that just escaped your ship and is swimming toward a nearby island. This is a true treasure hunt and you will really need to keep your eyes peeled for hidden objects along the way! You never know what you'll come across that could be helpful later on!

Pirates is a comic combined with a game one title in a series subtitled "The comic in which you are the hero". You embody a character in an immersive story in which your choices guide your progress. You have a character sheet akin to those used in role-playing games that tracks your possessions your special abilities your coins and your victory points. In general gameplay consists in following the comic's panels — which contain clues riddles and traps — and making choices about where to go and what to do while using your visual perception to collect clues and be smart enough to resolve the riddles. As in any game you can lose — sometimes really badly!