Port Royale 4
Skip · Strategy · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 18.6h 20.7h to 100%
- Value
- $2.15/hr
- Reviews
- 57% of 2,147 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 49 discounts in the 6 years tracked, the median cut is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Port Royale 3 ($14.99, scores 24) beats it on value, while it beats Grand Ages: Medieval ($19.99, scores 0).
More about Port Royale 4
68 on Metacritic, 57 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 168 reviews written there were positive, against 57 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
68% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I enjoyed my time with it. The Devs seemed to have fixed a lot of the problems previous reviews complained about. The history and story were refreshing. Trade and building were made simple and the game played smooth once you got use to the UI. There could have been more complexity in commodities and township, but over all it wasn't bad, though not as addicting as Patrician3.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
the game can play itself (personally I liked noting how the goods changed as the game progressed)
Ive tried to like the game, and i do...but compared to PR3 this is just s shell of what it could be. battles are no longer fun. building cities in PR3 is way better and less tedious than whatever they tried to do here. ship variety could be better and combat needs a lot of overhaul to make it a core part of the game. Ill stick with PR3 on the good ol PS3. this game left me wanting so bad i broke out the old ps3 and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Port Royale 4 scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1024650/port-royale-4Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.