Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
What Sea of Thieves is
Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more.
The sentence of its Steam description that best says what it is, picked by Jev. The developer's own words.Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.
What people say
Inside the cheaters and toxicity complaints, griefing and ship attacks, toxic player behavior and cheating tools each carry a share, while weak anti-cheat and reporting is a separate, smaller strand.
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Recent reviews run 18 points below the lifetime score.
Steam's score counts every review over the game's life; this report reads the reviews in its window, so a recent update or event moves it first.
Reviewers who like multiplayer and community praise it, 17% of written reviews, and so do those who say gameplay is fun, 16%. Skip it if cheaters and toxicity bother you: 8% of written reviews raise them, and 6% raise bugs and crashes.
Of the people who wrote a review
Watch out for
- Cheaters and toxicity8%Most often griefing and ship attacks
“Sea of Thieves is a total ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nightmare. This pirate garbage steals your time like nothing else!”
- Developer and updates6%
- Bugs and crashes6%
Share of written reviews that raise each one.
Who it suits
- Playing with friends521 reviewers; most raised: cheaters and toxicityComplain44%Praise89%
- Collecting and completing55 reviewers; most raised: grindComplain62%Praise68%
- Playing solo41 reviewers; most raised: difficultyComplain85%Praise60%
Steam reviews over its whole life
374,342 reviews in every language, counted per month by Steam itself.
What Sea of Thieves reviewers say
One public report on Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition reads 2,359 Steam reviews from the last year. The report “What people complain about and love in 2026” was last updated Oct 27, 2026. Of its 2,359 judged reviewers, 46% complain, 66% praise something, 4% make a request and 2% say they're quitting. The top complaint is cheaters and toxicity at 14% of complaints, then developer and updates (11%) and bugs and crashes (12%). Top praise: multiplayer and community, at 24% of praise. Top requests: new feature or option (43%) and more content (14%). Two audience differences stand out. Long-time user: say they're quitting 5.4x as often as everyone (10% vs 2%). New user: say they're quitting 4.7x as often as everyone (9% vs 2%).
One public report on Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition. Each title is written by the person who shared it; the line under it says how the reviews were picked.
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