Sailing video games

Games about sailing ships in open ocean.

How many of them exist?

A few.

>Assassin Creed Black Flag
And more, but these ones are good to good-ish.

I want something with absolute freedom to trade and explore the seas, what can you recommend?

Lots. What particular aspect are you hoping to capture?

If you want the experience of actually sailing a ship there's a number of upcoming games that seem to want to offer that if existing ones aren't doing it for you.

Do you want purely combat focused sailing? Exploration? Trading and diplomacy? Do you want to actually be on the ship or have a birds eye view of the action?

Narrow your fucking flavor man.

Personally I enjoy Windward for the arcade style action but honestly my dream sailing game would allow me to live on said boat and use it as a quest hub/base.

Supposedly Skies of Arcadia did something like this but I never played that game and I was too lazy to emulate it.

Using a custom built airship to fly around a fantasy world and raid random places and hopping out like fucking punished snake when shit gets too crazy ala Megaman Legend's intro dungeon. That would be the creme de la creme for me. Gradually upgrading your ship with the loot you nab from the places you raid.

That would tickle parts of my autism that are rarely touched by games today.

Uncharted Waters has its plotlines but you can completely ignore them outside the immediate start and go do whatever, focus on piracy or trade and go anywhere you want.

Format your post better, I almost reported with the rest of the spam.

You mean MMO or this game?

Uncharted Waters II: New Horizons is the one I go too for a good sailing time.

DOS or SNES versions then?

I've never tried DOS, so I'd recommend SNES.