2004 · Pirates · Open World · RPG
How long isSid Meier's Pirates!?
by Firaxis Games
11 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 4.5 hours and 26 hours
Sid Meier's Pirates! among the 289 open-world games here
The whole tier list#263
of 289
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 16%
- got past 2 hours
- −37 on the kind's 53%
- 1%
- past 20 hours
- −24 on the kind's 25%
- 28%
- launched it
- −39 on the kind's 67%
- 136
- libraries own it
- 1 in 18 of the 2,477 read here
Next to it in the ranking
Exceptionally loved: 96% recommend it past the refund window, better reviewed than 340 of 383 open-world games here.
82% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
93% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
96% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
96% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
97% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
97% recommend it at 50 to 100 hours
98% recommend it at 100 to 200 hours
Does Sid Meier's Pirates! hold up?
Holds steady
At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 200 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of Sid Meier's Pirates! tell you?
In the first two hours82%recommend it
After that96%recommend it
6 in 100 said no: 4 after the window had closed, 2 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 11 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4.5 hours and 26 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 7,610 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 93% and 98% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
12% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 82% of those recommend it. After the window, 96% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 61% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 3.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
11days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 11 hours on Wednesday, November 25.
Half of its reviewers had played between 4.5 and 26 hours: Nov 19 to Dec 10 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 Sid Meier's Pirates! worth it?
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One hour, at list price
Sid Meier's Pirates!
- Steam list price, US
- $9.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 11 h
- open-world game rate
- $2.27/h
- 11 h at that rate
- $25
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is Sid Meier's Pirates! worth it? Mostly.
A steal
2.5× the hours of a typical open-world game, for the same money
Loved
96% recommend it after the refund windowmost open-world games: 86%
Often left unplayed
28% of owners here have played itmost open-world games: 66%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $9.99, the typical player's 11 hours come to 91¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 96% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 91¢ an hour, Sid Meier's Pirates! is cheaper per hour than 337 of 383 open-world games here: the typical one of 383 open-world games here charges $2.27, so the same $9.99 buys 2.5× 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.
Where can I play Sid Meier's Pirates! today?
On iPhone and PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- todayPC2004
- Xbox2005ported
- PSP2007ported
- Xbox 3602008ported
- Wii2010ported
- todayiPhone2011
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines Sid Meier's Pirates! 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 Sid Meier's Pirates!?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Sid Meier's Pirates!, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Sid Meier's Pirates! 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.
@eso holds this page
- 1st
@eso4.5 h - 2nd
@foxworks2.2 h - 3rd
@chlo2.1 h - 4th
@dougtheduck35 min - 5th
@darthvader78 min - 6th
@pr-xy4 min - 7th
@tyr1 min
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 Sid Meier's Pirates!?
1 in 363
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.
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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 Sid Meier's Pirates!: a kind of game it is that Sid Meier's Pirates! is not, a feature its tags carry that Sid Meier's Pirates!'s barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.