Republic of Pirates
Skip · Strategy · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 25, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 13.1h 15.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.91/hr
- Reviews
- 71% of 545 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 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
Establish and grow a pirate utopia during the Golden Age of Piracy. Create a resource-based economy, engage in real-time naval combat, and conduct diplomacy with rival powers. Explore the far reaches of the Caribbean in search of the ultimate fortune and glory.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7770, 2 GB, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 18 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, IXION ($34.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Port Royale 4 ($39.99, scores 2).
More about Republic of Pirates
Of the 418 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,597 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 265 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 9 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review.
The drop-off
87% 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
- Players online
- 16 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 14:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
its a bit like anno 1800 where the population needs to be close to the buildings your trying to fill with workers good idea to some point but a very bad choice in others. warehouse goods are across the whole map rather than being island for island which again comes across as a bad choice but good one too. im not sure how i would rate this yet i havent had enough time to rate it properly i like it and dont like it at...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Note: I picked this up during a sale for sub £10. If you're wondering about picking it up, please pick it up during a sale honesty. For what it is, essentially a pirate's version of Anno, it's rather fun in all. That being said, it feels unfinished. Nothing really noteworthy to mention from a mechanics point of view other than it just feels unfinished, The features as they currently stand, feels like it could be...
I cannot like the game no matter how hard I try. I was hoping that it was going to be a new "Cutthroats". Its not. The economy seems broken to me. Every production building seems to cost more in upkeep than it makes. The larger buildings dont influence a larger area or produce larger crops. I got the +7500 money award early on but now whatever I try I just go bankrupt trying to keep the people happy. Raiding rarely...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Republic of Pirates scores 25/100 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/2103470/republic-of-piratesReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.