2020 · Open World · Pirates · Co-op
How long isSea of Thieves?
by Rare Ltd
27 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 9.5 hours and 73 hours
Sea of Thieves among the 293 open-world games here
The whole tier list#8
of 293
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 85%
- got past 2 hours
- +32 on the kind's 53%
- 48%
- past 20 hours
- +23 on the kind's 25%
- 93%
- launched it
- +26 on the kind's 67%
- 511
- libraries own it
- 1 in 5 of the 2,519 read here
On the long side for an open-world game: 27 hours for the typical player, longer than 334 of 383 open-world games here.
63% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
88% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
90% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
91% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
91% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
90% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
88% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
85% recommend it at 200 to 500 hours
75% recommend it past 500 hours
Does Sea of Thieves hold up?
Wears thin
Do the first two hours of Sea of Thieves tell you?
In the first two hours63%recommend it
After that89%recommend it
11 in 100 said no: 10 after the window had closed, 1 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 27 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 9.5 hours and 73 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 375,000 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It is recommended most by players at 20–50 hours: 91% of them. Among players past 500 hours that falls to 75%.
3% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 63% of those recommend it. After the window, 89% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 90% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 27 hours in.
When would you get there?
4weeks
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 27 hours on Friday, December 11.
Half of its reviewers had played between 9.5 and 73 hours: Nov 24 to Jan 26, 2027 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is Sea of Thieves worth it?
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Sea of Thieves
- Steam list price, US
- $39.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 27 h
- open-world game rate
- $2.27/h
- 27 h at that rate
- $61
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Sea of Thieves worth it? Mostly.
Good value
1.5× the hours of a typical open-world game, for the same money
Liked
89% recommend it after the refund windowmost open-world games: 86%
Gets played
93% of owners here have played itmost open-world games: 66%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $39.99, the typical player's 27 hours come to $1.48 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 89% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At $1.48 an hour, Sea of Thieves is cheaper per hour than 260 of 383 open-world games here: the typical one of 383 open-world games here charges $2.27, so the same $39.99 buys 1.5× the hours.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (open-world games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Is Sea of Thieves better now than at launch?
June 2020
87%
≈ 19,500 reviews
Now
81%
≈ 18,900 reviews
How this is counted
Its Steam reviews began in June 2020. Of those posted in the first 30 days, 87% recommend it; of those posted in the last 12 months, 81% do.
One token is 2% of the reviews first posted in its first 30 days, and in the last 12 months. Each counts with the verdict it carries today, so a review its author has since changed shows the new one. The biggest comebacks and falls.
Where can I play Sea of Thieves today?
Almost anywhere
PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Xbox One.
- todayPC2018
- todayXbox One2018
- todayXbox Series2020
- todayPS52024
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Sea of Thieves came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like Sea of Thieves?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Sea of Thieves, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Sea of Thieves would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
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Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with Sea of Thieves?
- B
The middle pick of 16 players on the Steam tier list
1 in 21
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more. The tier is the middle player's on the Steam tier list, shown once ten players have ranked it.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from Sea of Thieves: a kind of game it is that Sea of Thieves is not, a feature its tags carry that Sea of Thieves's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.