Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 33, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $1.89/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512MB, 3.9 GB of storage. Windows only.
Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!
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 $2.49. That was February 2023. It has been discounted 66 times in the 7 years tracked here, typically at 85 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
Value puts it in the top 44 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Garden Paws ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Hokko Life ($19.99, scores 16).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 446 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 4 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 145 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
At 13.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
86% start to 10% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 13.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
Meh! It's a game. It's ok, nothing exceptional. The only reason I wouldn't recommend it, is because it's a grind to complete 100%. If you want to just play through the story, the game is very short. If you want all the achievements, you're going to be doing the same tasks over & over & over again. If you don't mind a grind, Stranded Sails is at least functional & not entirely boring.
When you start enjoying the game the game ends, You don't need to be close to the crew, you don't need to be full upgrade The game just ends like that making you feel like you didn't really finish the game
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands scores 33/100 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/943260/stranded-sails-explorers-of-the-cursed-islandsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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