Captain Blood
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 32, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 6.5h
- Value
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 319 positive
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Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $12.49 (50% off). Calls like this were right 73% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 56 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Captain Blood is a pirate-themed action game where you play as a fearsome pirate seeking gold and glory. Expect adventures with cannon firing, pistol shooting, swashbuckling sword fights, and plenty of pirate shenanigans. This hack'n'slash features fierce combat, hordes of enemies and flashy combos.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX1060/AMD Radeon RX 550, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 14 times in the 18 months tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 43 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 66 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii ($59.99, scores 51) beats it on value, while it beats Trek to Yomi ($19.99, scores 25).
More about Captain Blood
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 6.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 255 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2025 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 6.5 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
100% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 01:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really tried, but I just wasn't having fun after just an hour, a 20 minute port combat sequence in the first mission, and the second mission being one of the most awful sea battles I've ever seen in a game, I just have no desire to try and continue. The combat is floaty and your attack range is so low at default. The execution is okay until its the only way to regain health because the cannon balls deal so much...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I know this game came out with years dedication and investment. But quite frankly speaking, have you guys devs actually play this game yourself? The highest difficulty is almost like ridiculously unplayable, three to four musketeers can immediately interrupt your attack input and just put you into some firing squad execution type of sh*t. Not to say your need to spend like 15 minutes to defeat the third Boss because...
This is a weird recommend, considering I refunded the game, but hear me out. The game is cool, it has a really neat style. It is nothing noteworthy, in terms of the gameplay, and the jank is... well, everywhere. It feels a bit unfair to play, at times, and it is highly repetitive. I suppose my recommend comes from the fact that the game is a time machine, it feels like it belongs back in those beautiful days of the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Captain Blood scores 32/100 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/3040220/captain-bloodReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.