Sea of Thieves: 2025 Edition
Last updated: 2026-01-11
- Deep yet accessible gameplay experience
- Stunning visuals and unique art style
- Authentic pirate fantasy with dynamic events
- Conflicting PvP and PvE design balance
- Toxic community and rampant cheating issues
- Persistent bugs and stability problems reported
Emotions
Frustration31%Disappointment14%Excitement8%Joy7%Anger7%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 364,824
- Positive
- 324,57789.0%
- Negative
- 40,24711.0%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 25,892,123
- Estimated revenue
- $1,035,425,999
- Game price
- $40
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 2340.97%
- Estimated copies lost
- 16,607
- Estimated revenue lost
- $664,114
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 2361% Avg playtime 0.9h | 1650.7% Avg playtime 1h |
| > 2h playtime | 3,86516.1% Avg playtime 196.2h | 19,80482.3% Avg playtime 158.8h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 11.8 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 77.9 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 733.4 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 2,047.9 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
24,070 total
Organic purchasers20,97687.1%
Voted up: 83%
Key activations3,09412.9%
Voted up: 81%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
24,070 total
First impression0-2h6492.70%
Voted up: 52%
Mid game2-10h4,48818.6%
Voted up: 84%
Late game10-20h3,47114.4%
Voted up: 86%
Endgame20h+15,46264.2%
Voted up: 83%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
80.8%
Global baseline 83.0%
151 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 364,824 total.