Skull and Bones
Skip · RPG · 2024
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 18, under the fair line, at $5.99.
- Length
- 27.4h
- Value
- $0.22/hr
- Reviews
- 66% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 80% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 80% ($5.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 90% ($2.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 950 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB, 90 GB of storage. Windows only.
Skull and Bones is an open world naval action RPG where ship combat, build choice, and sailing skill define your pirate legend. Conquer rival ships and mythical beasts in a vast ocean of up to 20 players.
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
- Steam lists in-app purchases but we have no detail on them. Small caution applied.
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 22 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $5.99 at 80 percent off still sits 100 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 84 percent. It scores the same as Dragon Age™: The Veilguard, which costs $59.99. This one is $5.99.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 655 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 23 percent of the 803 reviews written there were positive, against 66 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 27.4 hours; clearing it takes 69, which is 2.5 times the campaign.
Players
185 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 14:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Skull and Bones scores 18/100 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/2853730/skull-and-bonesReviews 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 2.
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