Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Worth it · Shooter · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $13.99.
- Length
- 46.3h
- Value
- $0.30/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 79% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon R9 270, 100 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $13.99, set in February 2025. It has been discounted 49 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $13.99 at 65 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Value puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 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).
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 79 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 15 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 8,490 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.
46.3 hours to finish it, 725 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 16 times the campaign.
Still 5.4K concurrent players, 6 years in, as of Sep 11.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
94% 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
Players
About 5,437 players at once, as of Sep 11.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
its impressive how the devs manage to make every single feature intentionally obtuse. not to mention the lag. microsoft can afford to fund a genocide but not servers that host reliable connections.
It used to be good fun. The straw that broke the camels back for me is the addition of the harpoon gun. Its a game about pirate ships fighting other pirate ships. Big cannons, ship maneuvers, repairs, positioning, cannon aim, etc... Now its a game about call of duty kids boarding at will with harpoon guns. They then jump around with swords cuz you cannot hit them if they keep moving. If they kill you they just camp...
A game about stealing treasure from other players after they've spent hours collecting it. Pure gold!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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 Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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