Premature Evaluation: Make Sail

Make Sail

Make boats and sail them. Survive an ocean of storms and beasts to find better pieces to make your ship bigger, faster, stronger, prettier, stranger, wilder: more yours.

Make Sail

Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. This week, Fraser s setting off in a rickety boat in Make Sail. It looks a bit like Wind Waker, but you get to build your own vessel. Sadly, it doesn’t talk.

Once a year, usually around the time of Gamescom, I slink off. I stop writing, disconnect from Twitter and flee to the coast of a sun-soaked country that I can comfortably sail around while sipping the cheapest gin and rum I can find. It s what I look forward to most, every year, and when I return I m always a more upbeat, raring-to-go kind of guy. It s safe to say that I love sailing.

Make Sail has tested that love.

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