Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Worth it · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 65% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$13.9965% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.87/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 374,344
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Shooter
Holding it back: DRM, Recent reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 79% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $13.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 45.8h
- To 100%
- 724.8h 15.8x the story
- Achievements
- 293
Price and sales
- Sales
- 50 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $13.99 February 2025
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,354 now
- Recent reviews
- 79% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 79% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
94% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 50 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Forza Horizon 5 ($59.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats ATLAS ($29.99, scores 2).
More about Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 79 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 8,541 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency); the score docks it lightly for that.
45.8 hours to finish it, 725 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 16 times the campaign.
374,344 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I honestly go on just to relax but unfortunately between the no lifers and hackers its not a whole lot of fun. That an the devs think new content means something you need to repeat 2000 times to get a reward not actualy content. Been playing for years but I understand why new players don't stick around, I'm pretty sweaty myself but the no lifers really have no life.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Worst game ever nice graphics but its so repetitive and boring its just all cosmetics this game could have potential but its so bad if they just learned how to make a game with a real way to progress and more weapons then it could be a good game
The game is actually great, but people are the biggest problem; you can't do anything in peace, and you lose something more important than in-game currency-namely, your sanity and time wasted fighting other players. The community is among the worst you could encounter. If I weren't a masochist and didn't still have achievments to unlock, I would have stopped playing this game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1172620/sea-of-thieves-2026-editionReviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.