Sea of Thieves: 2025 Edition

- Grind for hours - Get tons of loot - Be happy - Sail in direction of outpost to sell loot - Get sunk by 4 nine year olds that scream racist slurs at you - Be pissed and log off - Swear you will never touch this game again - Log on the next day and repeat 10/10 experience would do it again

The gameplay is great and the grind is really worth it but the community isnt that good

im new af so safe seas it is for now. gots no friends lol i will say the water is hands down the most immersive water ive ever seen.. i just like sailing around and exploring but if u had mates i could VERY much understand how awesome this game could be. idk abt full price but def worth the 14 it cost on sale

As much as i love this game, its getting destroyed by incompetent people behind it. OG developers made a masterpiece and gave it into hands of incompetent clowns. Its like Rare wants this game to die which will happen really soon imo. I cant recommend this game in current state.

Love this game, it is great. That is when swords aren't being shoved up my a$$ and my ship gets sunk faster than the crew votes me into the brig for breathing too loud. And tell me why I can easily stack up a Fort of the Damned or two, but then right as I'm ready to leave, two galleons roll up like it's their 9-to-5 job to ruin my entire bloodline. I blink once and suddenly I'm watching my loot get auctioned off by some 12-year-old on voice chat who calls me 'brokie' mid-sink. Anyways, besides that, the game is great and you should definitely give it a shot.

Definitely going to be a very enjoyable game for newer players. Servers need lots of work, but still very good game.

I gave this game a fair shot. 11 hours of pure frustration. Spent HOURS peacefully grinding, collecting treasure, doing voyages — only to get jumped by some PvP sweatlord, have my ship sunk in 2 minutes, and lose everything. This isn't "danger adds thrill," it's just unbalanced trash that rewards griefers and punishes anyone who tries to enjoy the actual game content. The worst part? You can’t opt out. There’s no PvE mode. No safe zones. Not even outposts are protected. The devs Refuse to add PvE servers or passive mode despite YEARS of players begging for it. Because making you regrind means more hours played, which makes them look good to Microsoft. The result A toxic, one-sided game where: PvP sweats get free loot with zero effort Peaceful players get robbed, rage, and uninstall Real gameplay (voyages, exploration) feels pointless if you can just steal other people hours loot . the PVP is unbalanced when you have loot they can easly just steal it and when you defend and sink the other player boat you get nothing the pvp only rewarding the one with 0 loot because they have nothing to loose . I loved the idea pirate life, sailing, treasure but this game is built around pure frustration. It’s not fun, it’s not fair , and it’s not worth your money unless you enjoy ruining other people’s fun. so if want a game where you can just chill and grind your way to the top without loosing all your progress this game ain't for you .

The game is great! Lots to do. Can rock the "Safer Seas" mode to get a feel as to how the game's mechanics all work without worrying about other players attacking you. Then once you're comfortable with everything, you can head into High Seas mode and open up a whole new world of things to do, see, and interact with. It's a pirate game, so don't expect a lot of the players to be friendly, BUT I have had mostly positive encounters with other players. (There are even specific trophies/achievements for deliberate positive interactions with other players/crews/guilds!) MAIN GRIPE: Server connection stability is dodgy at best, and infuriating at worst. Highly recommended that you frequently do your turn-ins at outposts so you don't lose everything when your connection inevitably drops at some point and you can't get back into your session before it times out. I'm fine. EVERYTHING'S FINE. :P

I've been playing SOT since it released on Xbox, and it was an amazing experience. Nowadays the game is full of hackers and it is impossible to pvp with hourglass because you will most likely be queued against a hacker. The devs seem to almost have no ambition when it comes to the game itself. All the devs are doing nowadays are just adding shortcuts to the game. Feels like everything can just be obtained via a menu screen. The devs have not even added a single new biome in I can't even remember how long. An ice biome would be really cool or maybe some desert biome or a ghost realm. I feel like the game could use some new and inspiring elements. The main thing in SOT was the cosmetics to me. These being curses and clothing. It felt so rewarding to grind for hours and hours to get a outfit or a curse, but nowadays the clothing is just so underwhelming. I fee like the game could use better animated curses and ship sets, also allow the player to take specific pieces of clothing from a costume so we can mix and match. A hub world would be pretty cool, so players could interact with each other and communicate via gamechat while showing off their hard earned cosmetics. Game lacks ambition and if the devs don't step their game up then the game will cease to be. Also I like the idea of the shroudbreaker. It is an item that you can attach to your ship to obtain a special blessing. Maybe add some more things like that for pvp or just traversing faster. Like there could be an item that makes the ship invisible from 300 meters away or an item that increases ship speed periodically just something to spice up the game.

You and your friends can have a lot of fun moments. One of the great things about this game is that it keeps getting updated with new features and missions. In my opinion, this game is still worth playing.

THIS GAME SHOULD BE CALLED SEA OF CHEATS Pardon me for the rage up here, but yes , after I joined into this game to play it with a friend of mine and on my own sometimes, registering almost 480 hours in total on this game , starting from what was at the time already the 5th season probably , I can't hold my frustration to call gamers that wants to approach the game and hopefully the Devs themselves too from what the situation always been for me. Not gonna lie , I must praise Rare as Devs that added and improved mechanically , especially in recent times, what the pirates where asking for long and surely they delivered it finally after long wait , but I found all these improvements sinking the moment that you face the sad truth about this game , specifically from on EU servers, on how hellish full of cheaters this game is , even after the implementation of an anticheat system after YEARS AFTER RELEASE FOR A MAINLY MULTIPLAYER-BASED GAME the devs fixed that , but sadly the run against a cheater based community is far more efficient on find new ways to jump over the defenses , leading to what my experience was in the 75 % of the PvP and casual free sailing voyages , seeing people hitting the masts from km aways with no problems, or having freeze like cheats to make you essentially an easy lemon to squeeze for them , in order to shoot you down and take all the hard earned rewards from a raid that may took you hours to complete Just to add a stab on the back, ironically last time I joined one game I was almost , randomly, hold by the anticheat system accusing me to have some , then on the same game fighting against Russians little pirates with more cheats than soul in their own bodies , able to bend my and my friend network too at their own will Sadly until the Devs takes the cheaters probelm seriously , I don't think I will sail again on this beautiful game , that is ruined from people who doesn't want to play like men , and from Devs that seems to have forgot a basic system to put on a game that revolves around multiplayer , even with the support of a giant publisher as Microsoft on the back Stay safe and wish you a safe sail on calm seas , Yours NobleWolfa

You can play this game alone or with friends, at any pace you want, really. Slow-paced, fast-paced, on your own or with others.

Only players left are toxic tryhards. The game will be shut down within the year at my guess. Player count is averaging around 10k and dropping fast due to unplayability. Cheating is STILL a huge problem because again the only player left are toxic. Game will be Forever dead soon. DO NOT BUY.

The devs of this game are actually useless. Every week the game goes under "maintenance" to fix one of the endless bugs, but as soon as they fix something a new bug occurs, and the game is stuck in this endless cycle of purgatory. Hacking is also a huge problem in the game, making it almost unplayable at times. The game can be really fun, but in its current state I can't recommend it.

The lack of a good progression system is what really turned me off from this game, it ultimately became nothing but a repetitive piece of garbage.

dumb easy anticheat says that DiagnosticDataSettings.dll in system 32 in untrusted so the game wont start. my 23 minutes has just been the easy anti cheat screen.

If I didn't have friends to play this game with, I absolutely could not tolerate playing this game. The community is godawful, being slotted with randos is torturous, there's nothing fun about the combat. Don't be kind to strangers, and if somebody is docked do them a favor and blast them off the side of the island before they sink a knife in your back. This "dark forest" mentality is 100% necessitated, and it isn't fun. The only two reasons to sink anyone is to either be douche, or sink them before they sink you. Again, I'm lucky enough to have some buddies who enjoy the game, if you don't - then do not engage.

SO MUCH PVP TOXIC PLAYERS I HAD NEVER SEEN I am returned to the game after very long pause. It was a mistake

This is a very interesting and fun game! I am having lots of interesting fun and fun interests! There are so many fun interests, and interesting ways to have fun! It really is quite interesting how fun this is. There are so many fun things that are of interest, which is really both fun and interesting! All in all, a fun and interesting experience. It really piques my interest in a fun and interesting way! Truly a thrillingly fun and interestingly unique game. Interestingly enough, it can be quite frustrating, while being fun at the same time (frustrating in a fun way), which is an interesting dynamic. Truly a fun and interesting game!

i got jumped by 2 ships and a megalodon, peak gameplay

lgbt trash in a game that has a massive child population. how unsurprising.

PvP is unbalanced, clunky and buggy. Filled with cheaters consistently for years now because the anti cheat sucks. The game is basically unplayable in its most desired element. PvE experience is awesome. Good story and quests.

do not buy this game i have over 4k hours on xbox this game used to be my favorite game but for the past year this game has gone way down hill cheaters everywhere adventure and hourglass you can not do anything solo in this game they make it impossible now with the most resent update you can have skeletons on your boat so everyone just has them spammed on their boat they are slowly taking away the pvp in the game and making everything worse every update they break more than they fix its so buggy and laggy have the time u cant even load in stay away from this game

false bans for no reason i havent played in months and uninstalled the game until today

Could be a fun game if they didn't make money restrictions on safer seas. Getting outpost camped by people too lazy to explore and loot is not my idea of a fun experience

The brigantine ship is unrealistic in many ways, but the things that get me the most is the missing spanker and that the bowsprit is missing spritsails.

Pushing politics in game, I came for fun not to be forced to endure political opinions or groups.

You can spend two solid hours grinding, loading your ship with chests and loot, only for a cheater to show up, land every single shot with inhuman precision, and sink you in seconds. Or worse the game might randomly kick you, the servers go down right as you're about to cash in, and all your progress vanishes. And if you're really unlucky, like me, your entire account might reset back a week for no reason at all no warning, no explanation, and absolutely no way to reach support for help. trash game could be so much more fun if it still had support

One of the BEST open world multiplayer game i have ever played in my life. Not my favourite theme for a game but they really got me with all that the game has to offer. The organic pvp encounters are absolutely amazing almost movie scennario. But time really did this game dirty, slowly going to die, dev's did an awsome job they are still trying to revive the game with seasonal updates but it cannot really be the same again, had it's gllory days but now it is really a collapsing game, the game is 10x better if u play along friends also very fun

Fun game, but the constant server issues make it nearly unplayable. More than half the time I try to play it, it either fails to connect to server, or fails to initiate a session.

Last 10 patches made main point of the game so unpleasant, that i would'nt reccomend it even for my ops

Extremely low max FOV makes the game unplayable for people prone to motion sickness in games.

cool game but i don't have friends to play with P.S. i got friends! now this game is 10/10

The game was fun for many years. There is a lot of potential. Unfortunately, the seasons are becoming increasingly unlovable. There haven't been any new tall tales in a while. The focus is solely on PvP. And PvP is not fun if you get ganked by four professional PvP-players/streamers while you try to just enjoy the game and earn gold. After almost every update, you read in Discord, "We are aware of..." new bugs. The worst part: lag and micro-stutters are getting worse with every update. Better try to get your servers/performance under control, than to put work into pride nonsense and expensive shop items...

I've played this game for almost 3000 hours now, first on the Microsoft Store and now on Steam. During that time, unfortunately, I’ve encountered many issues in the game. Leaving aside the fact that most players are very toxic – that happens in every game and doesn't really bother me anymore – it's a different story when the game itself is full of problems. For example, there have been issues with hackers in this game ever since I started playing, and with the new season, even more hackers have returned. If I were a game developer, I’d find that pretty embarrassing. There are also a lot of bugs, which can sometimes be funny, but most of the time they’re just frustrating because they can really mess up the gameplay. A PvP/PvE game should at least be able to handle a few bugs to make the experience more enjoyable. One of the worst things, however, is that the servers can’t handle 8,000 players, which is just plain embarrassing. Honestly, I really enjoy playing this game, but when things end up like this and the updates do nothing against hackers, bugs, and exploits, you start to wonder if Rare is doing anything at all. Instead, they just keep adding events like Gold & Glory weekends, during which the servers are completely overloaded and you end up leaving disappointed. Müsst ihr wissen

Really looking forward to playing this game! That is, in a few years. I'm trying to run this on a device with ARM64, and neither steam or the devs seem to want ARM64 players to be able to do anything online(or even launch the game) due to the horrendous anticheat, which only works half the time anyways. The only way for ARM64 players to play is through immense research, running it through other programs or breaking the anticheat completely off the their computer, forcing themselves to play solo until they install the anticheat back. Like what???? Dude, I have a life. I cant spend hours breaking my computer and your game, just to play a game that I'm supposed to be able to launch in 30 seconds. Anyone that has ARM64, feel free to buy it, maybe they fixed it by now, but seriously, wouldn't recommend. Which sucks, because I was planning on binging this game that I've been waiting weeks for, only to buy it with the summer deal, and find out that I wasted my money.

[h1] homophobic player base but fun game [/h1] player base is weirdly homophobic (as you can tell from specific negative reviews) which in turn makes for a toxic community. the people leaving the anti-pride reviews are absolutely the same people using cheats and being rude in game unprompted. the actual game? fun and goofy. fun crab related cosmetics top tier. great to play as a streamer and with friends. LGBTQ+ supporters are sexy. negativity is a character flaw ♥

Really fun to play along-side friends, however, the game lags a feeling of progression, through the hours you put it.

don't buy this, keep getting a "Services temporarily unavailable" error, if the devs don't want me to play their stupid game then I won't

Very bad game. At one point you are at the top having everything and boom you get swabbed and are suddenly on a calm little island with your ship ready for your next adventure like you werent just thinking of uninstalling. Also please add an Anti-aliasing setting.

only cheaters in this game, not funny anymore just everytime we play it cheaters. if u see this development team SOT. fix ur anticheat this is not playable anymore

Where has the rum gone? i got it, i got it jumps rum explodes sad pirate face :(

fight streamer streamer says u stream snipe streamer talks to community manager of rare you get banned with no evidence rinse and repeat do not play when you buy you do not own the game you just get a licensing agreement hackers also suck game is boring

Pretty fun but it can be annoying if you have spent a lot of time getting treasure then someone kills you and steals it all. Otherwise a fun and well made game would definitely recommend. And i'm not a bot ykyk

terrible game... zero progression the same thing over and over... okay for 5-10 but other than children i cant see who enjoys zero upgrades the same weapons and the same fights... all that paired with sweaty degenerates that main this trash game run a smaller ship with 2 people beats 5 people on a big ship pounding there ship with cannnons... this has been a waste of time and i discourage anyone else from doing the same

Funnest Pirate game out there, you can plunder, grind and even fish. There is something to do for everyone and the community is really good. The frequent updates always give you something new to play

I have over 200 hours in this game and the game is truly ass pvp is cringe and the PVE portion of the game is just boring sloops have to much mobility and the other ships cant even fight them if the enemy crew has one working brain cell would. this game is not a game it is sailing in circle sim so if you like not doing anything then randomly loseing everything you should play this game

Cool pirate game, way more fun with a crew of friends maximum 4 people can play together. There is a lot of content to play in the game, supports both PvP and PvE playing style.

I have around 1200-1300 hours on this game (bought on steam not to long ago, played on xbox and xbox app for most of it) in the games current state, I would not recommend buying it, unless you can handle 70-100 ping, piss poor frames (I have a 3070 and sometimes struggle to get over 100 frames on lower settings) very poor community management from the devs, etc. however, I will still religiously be playing this game. My glorious Damage control Production Director Drew Stevens has to get paid somehow.

Game gets worse with every update, more instability and more bugs/exploits. Rare has abandoned their most dedicated and competitive community, in search for a casual community that will unload their wallet for the emporium.