Raiders of the North Sea

Raiders of the North Sea

Fair · Multiplayer · 2019

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
3.2h
Value
$4.68/hr
Reviews
86% of 265 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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

Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 83% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
DRMDire Wolf Digital account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Value$4.68/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 198 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

It's Raiding Season! Plunder your way to Viking adventure in the digital adaptation of the award-winning worker-placement board game!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX11 or OpenGL 3.x capabilities, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

Across all 40 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Root ($14.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Rento Fortune: Online Dice Board Game (大富翁) ($4.99, scores 0).

The drop-off

60% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 07:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Great port of a great board game. This is a perfect intro to modern board games because it features key mechanics like worker placement and still has combat.
bendistrawRecommendedafter 5.6hJun 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
Love this game. It takes a couple of rounds to get into it. Wish they had all the expansions on Steam as well.
rem334Recommendedafter 5.5hApr 2026Read on Steam
Dire Wolf has knocked it out of the park again! This game has a perfect balance of strategy.
JerinatorRecommendedafter 6.2hNov 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Raiders of the North Sea scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/965600/raiders-of-the-north-sea
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Reviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDire Wolf
PublisherDire Wolf
GenreMultiplayer
Released2019
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements29