Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
Skip · RPG · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 63.8h
- Value
- $0.23/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 mb video card, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
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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
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2019. 40 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 35 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ($14.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Caribbean Legend ($39.99, scores 27).
Of the 576 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 153 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 63.8 hours; clearing it takes 166, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
45% 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
18 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Used to play the 2003 pirates of the Caribbean, this game is a great extension using the same gameplay! Recommended!
Very OLD Akella Pirates game player here when "dinosaurs ruled the earth". I basically played the entire game in Russian (no DLC) before it was released in English offline. I recently went back and have been playing the DLCs online, and my immediate review is still valid in any case. The game series has been around since 2000. Published by Akella, and eveloped by various studios. This is actually the SIXTH game in...
I really, REALLY, REALLY wanted to give this a thumbs up. The game is quite fun. I have played a few Akella pirate games (OG Sea Dogs, Pirates of the Caribbean) and loved them all. This one probably has the best visuals, most variety of ship types, and most variety of missions. BUT.... and its a very big but: This game is just very broken, both mechanically and logically. -First off, there are a LOT of "typos". In a...
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Cite this score
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/223330/sea-dogs-to-each-his-ownReviews 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 1.
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