Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Skip · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 24, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 16h
- Value
- $0.94/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!
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
June 2019 is where it bottomed out, at $3.74. 84 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 65 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Windward ($9.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Blood and Gold: Caribbean! ($19.99, scores 7).
60 from critics against 69 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
This site sampled 483 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 521 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 16 hours; clearing it takes 36, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
The drop-off
33% 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
9 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 16:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Be a pirate, but yearning for more than just sailing, just ferrying cargo and just watching the sunset. Be an adventurer who needs more than gold, more than monsters, who needs a ship. Be in Tempest, where you can sail, make good money and of course, waylay merchants for their honestly earned coin and of course some kind of questing.
This game is absolutely worth checking out for the scenic experiences and all the quests/story that go along with it. You can tell tons of effort went into the world building and lore of this game. I also played for over 50 hours and didn't experience any real bugs. Yes, there are some visual bugs and the melee combat is a bit janky, but it didn't deter me from the overall fun experience with the game. If you need...
I played a couple hours a few years ago and somewhat enjoyed it. Came back to continue where I left off and my save is apparently gone as if I never played...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG scores 24/100 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/418180/tempest-pirate-action-rpgReviews 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 23, price as of Oct 1.
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