That depends on the timeframe that we are talking about, I guess. The first Pirates! game was out before Civ. Some of the others weren't competing with Civs either. :-D I've just played that last Pirates! Remake a couple of months ago (when I had a computer at my disposal), and it still kicks so much ass. I is a lot like calling Star Control 2 underrated (and it was in top ten games of all time for ten years? More?) Maybe a better title would be "undeservingly forgotten", because a lot of gamers don't know about them.
You're right, it didn't get bad ratings, but it's definitely way overshadowed by Civ.
That depends on the timeframe that we are talking about, I guess. The first Pirates! game was out before Civ. Some of the others weren't competing with Civs either. :-D I've just played that last Pirates! Remake a couple of months ago (when I had a computer at my disposal), and it still kicks so much ass. I is a lot like calling Star Control 2 underrated (and it was in top ten games of all time for ten years? More?) Maybe a better title would be "undeservingly forgotten", because a lot of gamers don't know about them.