Maelstrom
Fair · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Free and middling. Worth a look if the genre is yours.
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 83% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series card or higher, 7 GB of storage. Windows only.
Command the seas in Maelstrom! Engage in fast-paced naval battles with powerful warships and colossal sea monsters. Customize your fleet and dominate the Abyssal Ocean. Are you ruthless enough to survive?
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
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bombergrounds: Reborn (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt (free, scores 57).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
11% 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
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Maelstrom scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/764050/maelstromReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26.
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