Sea of Thieves

 Xbox One
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5.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 2187 Ratings

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  1. Cyricx
    Aug 4, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Getting griefed every five minutes, random game breaking glitches, little to no support and they appear to be down to one server so it’s just you and all the toxic losers who have nothing better to do but to troll you for twenty minutes straight not sinking your ship and killing you over and over. 1 star because the water is definitely where most of the effort went.… Expand
  2. shrunkmold26
    Jun 27, 2021
    0
    This game is fun for about a total of 30 minutes then you realise you have seen everything.
  3. Pierrotcaverna
    Aug 22, 2020
    0
    Every GAAS is disappointing and this isn't the exception. Truly forgettable game.
  4. FelixTheCat2
    Feb 2, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Que juego más malo la virgen santa, es una auténtica basura. Que pena lo que han hecho con RARE.… Expand
  5. Rollitin
    Apr 19, 2021
    1
    Do not. Don't deserve your time. Also buggy and broken. Not even indie game quality.
  6. YoloN14
    Jul 3, 2021
    10
    Good game of xbox. Best game of pirates. I recommend. And beter with the new update.
  7. Djdjdjd
    Jul 29, 2021
    0
    This game is fully dependent on having gaming friends who have the exact same day schedule as you and the same device. The game has no extra settings to make it easier or harder depending on the size of your crew, and it does not work very well on PC if trying to join an xbox friend. So if you know someone who plays on the same device and has a day schedule to the exact same minute as you,This game is fully dependent on having gaming friends who have the exact same day schedule as you and the same device. The game has no extra settings to make it easier or harder depending on the size of your crew, and it does not work very well on PC if trying to join an xbox friend. So if you know someone who plays on the same device and has a day schedule to the exact same minute as you, then you'll like the game. However no-one has that and SOT has made it so u have to have that. No settings to make a way around that. Rare is the **** company of all time.… Expand
  8. Haskeuszq
    Nov 21, 2021
    10
    Bardzo ładna gra o piratach i cudowny tryb multiplayer. W tej grze jest pełno sekretów które na pewno będziecie chcieli znaleźć
  9. FelipePP
    Feb 20, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Jogo medíocre, com gráficos ruins e lançado com pouquíssimo conteúdo. As dlcs melhoraram um pouco.… Expand
  10. albericegames
    Feb 20, 2022
    3
    Jogo completamente horrível ,podem até falar que a agua do game é bonita , porem jogo extremamente repetitivo.
  11. JessiePinkman
    Feb 22, 2022
    0
    Incredibly boring and repetitive. This game should be free to play before you consider even downloading it, once you've played for an hour you have seen all it has to offer.
  12. zaneycritic
    Apr 30, 2022
    9
    Do not focus on earlier reviews, because this game has come back. The tall tales are awesome, you could play just tall tales for 20 hours, AND THEN play the real game. A magical, fun, heartwarming explore experience.
  13. Joshicus
    Jan 8, 2023
    0
    Every update more bugs are introduced than are fixed and at this point it feels like they care more about attracting new players than maintaining a fun and stable game
  14. illuminati8467
    Mar 28, 2018
    0
    Like all ms games this gen its trash with microtransactions, selling my xbox and getting a ps4
  15. autosag1979
    Mar 27, 2018
    2
    This game sucks!! is the great failure of xbox the tomb of microsoft!!! Deserves a total fair review, as do all others. It isn't a 4 and it isn't a 1, it's a 3 and here is why. Generally video game reviews grade on a scale from 4 to 10, meaning that mediocre games often get 3s and 5s. I do not agree with this standard. A 2 to me, is a mediocre game that has only a few enjoyable/good thingsThis game sucks!! is the great failure of xbox the tomb of microsoft!!! Deserves a total fair review, as do all others. It isn't a 4 and it isn't a 1, it's a 3 and here is why. Generally video game reviews grade on a scale from 4 to 10, meaning that mediocre games often get 3s and 5s. I do not agree with this standard. A 2 to me, is a mediocre game that has only a few enjoyable/good things about it. Sea of Thieves embodies this ****… Expand
  16. bonq
    Mar 27, 2018
    2
    This game is worth like 10$, there's nothing to do after 1h of game play. Graphic is ok, but above that, no story, no amazing quest, you'll be better with AC 4: black flag if u want pirat experience xD
  17. fl4tline
    Mar 26, 2018
    3
    What happened to the economy in the Sea Of Thieves world? Was there hyper-inflation in the years since the chests of gold were buried by the previous generation of treasure-obsessed pirates?

    How else do you explain that it takes two days of adventuring, maybe some 20-30 chests of gold to buy one ... freaking ... jacket - not a tier-3 uber OP jacket - the first jacket upgrade in the    What happened to the economy in the Sea Of Thieves world? Was there hyper-inflation in the years since the chests of gold were buried by the previous generation of treasure-obsessed pirates?

    How else do you explain that it takes two days of adventuring, maybe some 20-30 chests of gold to buy one ... freaking ... jacket - not a tier-3 uber OP jacket - the first jacket upgrade in the game?!

    After two days of repetitive grind my increasingly desperate pirate calculated he would have to play for 60 solid days, collecting something approaching 2000 chests from INCREDIBLY repetitive missions to get the outfit he wanted and a few ship upgrades. What the heck, Rare, we have lives - and a huge array of other ways to entertain ourselves!

    This is the most grindy game I have ever played, coupled with problems like (literally) one type of enemy, snakes with more health than sharks, physics engine bugs that have sunken ships leaving the water and flying overhead(!), a tiny game world, repetitive under-populated islands, just 3 basically identical quest types and horribly poor balance between small and large crews when it comes to the much-touted skeleton forts, this game officially stinks worse than a bilge-rat boot.

    What a rush-job - a great graphics engine and a satisfying sailing mechanic do not a game make - virtually every mobile game has greater depth and variety. Do NOT waste your money - give it 18 months and check back in - or just go play Monkey Island, Sid Meier's Pirates or Ron Gilbert's underrated mobile game Scallywags to get your piratey-fix.

    No wonder Guybrush was so willing to sell "fine leather jackets" - he must have been the richest pirate in the whole Caribbean...    … Expand
  18. anthony15
    Mar 27, 2018
    0
    Fun game play at first in beta but after few days doesn't feel like there's anything new to do. Called Microsoft and they gave me FULL REFUND for the game as long as haven't requested any refunds in last 6 months. If not good game should call Microsoft and get refund and let developer know games has lack of content.
  19. DONTBUYSEAOFSHT
    Mar 28, 2018
    0
    I made an account just now, because you might like to know...IGN actually gave this barebones $60 game a higher score than Alien Isolation (They gave Alien less than a 6). You know... A game that actually has CONTENT, a STORY, as well as this so called "Good Foundation". OH AND THERES NO MICROSTRANSACTIONS IN ALIEN ISOLATION BUT THERE IS GONNA BE FOR SoT!

    **** off, seriously just ****    I made an account just now, because you might like to know...IGN actually gave this barebones $60 game a higher score than Alien Isolation (They gave Alien less than a 6). You know... A game that actually has CONTENT, a STORY, as well as this so called "Good Foundation". OH AND THERES NO MICROSTRANSACTIONS IN ALIEN ISOLATION BUT THERE IS GONNA BE FOR SoT!

    **** off, seriously just **** off IGN. Rare had many years, and the support of a several BILLION dollar company... to at least animate a body for the Kraken, or actually put more missions. Maybe even adding more than literally, LITERALLY, 2 enemy NPCs on ALL the islands. Skeletons, and snakes. Would it kill them to add even just a spider? Microsoft exclusive budget couldn't handle it? And they call this a pirate game, wheres the british army trying to stop us from getting rich? Getting loot is WAAAY too ez, and it makes me feel more like I'm doing chores tha being an actual pirate. It was harder to steal a chocolate bar as a little kid, than it was to get loot from the skull island, which literally just has the same skeletons over and over and over again.

    There's only 2 melee animations in the ENTIRE sword fighting "pirate" game. I wish I was exaggerating. I am not. Forget about having a decent ship to ship battle because of the wonky controls and the extremely, and I really mean EXTREMELY limited arsenal. If you've done it once, you've done all there is to do with that. I don't even know what the point of looting is, because literally everything you can buy in the game is cosmetic only. Once you got all the gun types (which you could probably get in under 20 minutes) it doesn't help you do any better at anything. So why even bother? Don't let me start with the overpriced sail paintjobs. They don't make your boat any faster. There is nothing to do, and there is no reason to do anything once you played the first time. There is only TWO kinds of ships in a PIRATE game! WHY? At least put a ****ing row boat in the game we're not all that picky! You can't even fish or sell sharks and whales for money like in AC4. You can't even rob merchant ships because they do not exist in this game. How did Ubisoft make a better pirate game with actual looting, when the pirating was just a small part of the story? They really **** the bed with this game I'm sorry to say.

    But yeah sure, give Rare a pass because apparently all we need to sell a full priced game and get a decent review, is a "GOOD FOUNDATION!"

    And people wonder why more and more games keep coming out like this. Hyped up, unfinished, full priced, but it's ok because at least it had a concept...and now they have your money too...(like it's really that hard to imagine a pirate game ffs) Seriously being a gamer sucks sometimes these days.

    Oh and no! I'm not happy at all that this game did bad. I wanted it the second I heard about it, because I loved the Pirates Of The Caribbean movies and Assassin's Creed Black Flag.I preordered full price right after it was announced because Rare was good. I had faith they could do this. I actually got really sad once I started playing the game and saw that all that hype was wasted... and there isn't a new first party pirate game coming anytime soon. That's messed up. It's fun with friends, but I've done a lot of regrettable stupid things with friends and still had fun. If you're actually dumb enough to give Alien Isolation a lower score than SoT, you would most likely be the type to have fun with friends watching paint dry, in the rain...

    On some other site some idiot removed my comments because I called out the games shortcomings. I hope he gets punched in the nuts every time he falls asleep for the rest of his life. People like that, and everyone of those "critics" who gave this game a positive review, is your ****ing enemy if you're a gamer. They would have every game go to ruin just like this one, when it was supposed to be good    … Expand
  20. CodMasters
    Mar 27, 2018
    4
    This is a glorified demo or No Mans Sky water edition.

    There are 3 voyages that you do and no matter what voyage you pick you end up doing the same things over and over. Go to island X kill some skeletons or go to island Y and dig up a chest. Maybe you like to collect chickens then go to island W and collect some chickens. The game is shallow and has very little stuff to keep players    This is a glorified demo or No Mans Sky water edition.

    There are 3 voyages that you do and no matter what voyage you pick you end up doing the same things over and over. Go to island X kill some skeletons or go to island Y and dig up a chest. Maybe you like to collect chickens then go to island W and collect some chickens.

    The game is shallow and has very little stuff to keep players coming back for more. Right now the only thing your working for is gold so you can buy some skins to look cool the problem here is the skins are over priced because they dont have enough skins to sell.For example there are several coats that all look almost identical the only difference is the color there is no variety in the gear you can buy.

    PVP can be fun at times having epic ship battles but those only happen 10 percent of the time. If you do try to level up fast then do a raid that takes 2-3 hours because you have to not only fight through waves of skeletons but you also have to deal with people that troll you. I can not count how many times my group has done a raid only to have some sloop show up steal the key then hide it so we cant find it. This is aggravating because you just wasted 3 hours not really enjoying the content because its so much rinse and repeat and you have nothing to show for your wasted time.

    There is also the issue with the fact that all the islands are identical sure they have different placement of assets but none of them have a unique character that makes me reorganize them as soon as I step foot on them. The servers right now only support 7 ships so the world feels like a empty place. If you want a ship simulator where you spend most of your time on a boat doing nothing then this is the game for you. I would say take advantage of the game pass and try the game for 14 days and then sign up for a month of the game pass. This game IMO is only worth $15-$20 not the full fledged 60 or more that Microsoft wants.    … Expand
  21. elvia_
    Mar 25, 2018
    4
    well made game engine, but nothing to do in game, same monster with different color, same quests over and over, only two events
  22. Maou
    Mar 27, 2018
    3
    The game looks amazing, the graphics and animations are beautiful, but the game lacks so much content, I got bored after playing the game for about 5-6 hours. There is no character creation, you can't upgrade your ship, you don't have any kind of progression aside from some cosmetics even though you pretty much never see your character. It is disappointing and boring, I asked for a refund.The game looks amazing, the graphics and animations are beautiful, but the game lacks so much content, I got bored after playing the game for about 5-6 hours. There is no character creation, you can't upgrade your ship, you don't have any kind of progression aside from some cosmetics even though you pretty much never see your character. It is disappointing and boring, I asked for a refund. If you really want to play this game then my tip is this: Wait for a couple of months and see if it got any more content. If not: Don't buy the game.… Expand
  23. Sirglogg
    Mar 27, 2018
    2
    Game has a lot of potential but I think they will make the necessary changes. Game is very repetitive with no real reason to play
  24. RUNaPUFF
    Mar 27, 2018
    4
    Such a beautiful game. The art is clearly very well-done.

    However, for $60 there is no real game. The only three missions you really get are so pathetically repetitive. You could play for a single hour and finish every single mission type possible.
  25. nezgyl
    Apr 1, 2018
    1
    1 type of enemy in the game, wait 2 if you count Kraken. 3 types of fetch missions. No progression, pvp stats, ranks, guilds etc. You name it, this game wont have it. Oh and i guess there was more ships than 2 back in the pirate day?
  26. bongwater
    Apr 19, 2018
    0
    This is just 10 % of a game, everything that should be in it will only be available for microtransactions, how can you have microtransactions, when there is otherwise NOTHING to do?
  27. Dante00
    Mar 28, 2018
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Queria mais conteúdo no jogo tá muito repetitivo e isso enjoa rápido,minha nota é essa pq esperava mais do jogo.… Expand
  28. Grossi
    Apr 7, 2018
    2
    What a waste of time this game is... 30 hours doing the same **** to buy cosmetics... Better luck next time Rare because i'm done with this boring game.
  29. Skibz
    Apr 21, 2018
    0
    One enemy type (not including the bodyless kraken. A dismal amount of weapons. Finding treasure chests, only to realise you need to take it to some guy to open it who gives you gold every single time. Yuck..... We have the most powerful console and this is what we get, sad time to be a Xbox owner.
  30. CthulhuElderGod
    Mar 28, 2018
    0
    You pay Rare to Beta test a concept!

    I wish this game worked and had character upgrades. The missions are simple. Search for X object while you kill the occasional skeleton or kill the skeleton because he is the X object. Repeat until you get bored. Issues include the following; clipping through geometry and getting stuck, which you will have to abandon your game to fix. Getting    You pay Rare to Beta test a concept!

    I wish this game worked and had character upgrades.

    The missions are simple. Search for X object while you kill the occasional skeleton or kill the skeleton because he is the X object. Repeat until you get bored.

    Issues include the following; clipping through geometry and getting stuck, which you will have to abandon your game to fix. Getting placed in jail for hours because you are on pc and others are on xbox or because you use a female character. Reward system at times seems to not give you xp or gold for finishing the mission. Also if you are on a sinking ship you can fall through the ocean or may have issues being able to use the ladders. Servers randomly kick you off for "not being active" even while you are sailing from far island to far island. After the 3/27/2018 patch the game requires to be reinstalled each time you what to play.

    Update: Now after patch game wont start at all.

    Visually this game should get a 7 out of 10.
    Game performance is 1 out of 10.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 71 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 71
  2. Mixed: 48 out of 71
  3. Negative: 2 out of 71
  1. Jeuxvideo.com
    Jun 6, 2018
    75
    Sea of Thieves provides all the necessary tools to the players willing to dive together in great naval adventures, full of smaller quests and epic sea battles.
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    May 1, 2018
    80
    An amazing world full of promise, but currently rather empty. More updates will be key. [May 2018, p.74]
  3. games(TM)
    Apr 20, 2018
    70
    We have nothing but respect for Rare's vision with Sea of Thieves, but it is a game as likely to chew you up and spit you out, as it is to embrace you. If the wind is in your favour then it can be a delight, but a storm is never far off if you lose momentum. The real test of the quality and efficacy of Rare's plan will be in how it manages to evolve and grow in the weeks and months to come. [Issue#199, p.67]
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