Sea Of Thieves Review - Gamereactor Sweden

Sea of ​​Thieves is a limited and extremely mediocre game that contains several parts that do not feel completely complete. Certainly, the sunsets reflecting in the wonderfully well-made water impresses and the initial joy does not let go of it. The feeling of joy is, however, tricky and after a couple of hours the reality is creepy and you'll be left with a full-priced game where it's hard to find reasons to play.

[Daz]

Well I love the game. I want to become a legend pirate. I was expecting more from the Kraken.

[The Wood]

Good for you bro. Bottom line to be honest. At least you can name a fault. Others dare not break the fb treaty. Sadly some of my kinsmen will focus on these scores by the way of malice, rivalry, banter or revenge. It happens across the board. .

[Eonjay]

A friend of mines told me about a technique he had for digesting reviews. He basically said take the best review and the worst review and throw them out. There are going to be people on both sides of the spectrum at extremes. This doesn't however provide an accurate representation of how most will feel. Therefore, he seeks out the average of scores and reads those reviews.

[gums007]

My technique is to play the game and decide for myself. Now there's a thought!

[IamTylerDurden1]

The game probably isn't a 5 but it certainly doesn't appear to be a 9.3. I find it extremely odd that 2 days after release there was still a quasi review embargo. Metacritic user reviews are at about a 6/10 which sounds more or less right considering all the issues.

[bouzebbal]

Best game rare has ever made... Nothing is left of rare.. RIP

[darthv72]

So.... why is there so many people saying they are having fun with this game if the reviewers say otherwise?

I mean fun should be the main reason to play a game....... right?

[DogJosha]

@Eonjay based on your friend's technique, you would ignore the few bad reviews that breath of the wild had. While they may have scored the game too low, those low reviews were probably the only reviews with some true insight into how the game truly was. The truth is that reviews are hardly ever even close to unbiased now and you need to read the content of them ALL or just go ahead and ignore every last one.

[fr0sty]

The fact that all of the reviews have the same complaint, that the game lacks substance, is good evidence that the game actually does lack substance.

[DaDrunkenJester]

I'm loving it also. A lot of fun with a friend or 2. Still quite a bit I haven't done yet though.

[RpgSama]

"Still quite a bit I haven't done yet though."

I sure hope so, unless you've been playing for 2 days straight (and even then) there should be a lot more than just quite a bit to be done.

[Brave_Losers_Unite]

There isnt much to do anyways

[IamTylerDurden1]

How do you feel about the fetch quests?

[DaDrunkenJester]

@Tyler

The quests are just something to follow while the real fun and adventure unfolds around that mission. None of the fun I had was directly caused by just catching a chicken. It was the random encounters with real people, stopping and exploring a sunken ship and fighting off sharks, and just messing around with my crew.

[IamTylerDurden1]

I don't doubt it can be fun goofing around with others, i just feel like this title could've been a free 2 play. If it was i don't there would be so much backlash.

[Da12RespectA]

You got to see the kraken?

[maybelovehate]

I did, but it was bugged out and didn't function at all sadly.

[nRicosS]

@lovehate
Its not bugged, but you have to download the body of kraken via dlc

[MegamanXXX]

Dam a 5. That's kinda brutal. I gave it a 7

[IamTylerDurden1]

After watching streams and reading numerous user reviews the game appears to have issues.

LACK OF CONTENT - just like a free 2 play game on day 1 it will take time to fill out the world.

SERVER ISSUES - we were told that Microsoft has the best dedicated servers and online infrastructure..

LACK OF COSMETICS - with cosmetics being the only reward for progressing it's troubling to see a lack of them.

LACK OF PROGRESSION - the is no character progression so it leaves little incentive to keep playing.

TERRIBLE QUESTS - filled with fetch quests and redundant busy work the quest system is very poor.

BAD GROUND COMBAT - the ship combat looks good but the ground combat is hollow and mediocre.

LACK OF GUNS & SHIPS - severe lack of guns (only 2 or 3?) and ships for a game that's loot based.

"KRAKEN" - there has been very little added since the betas. The Kraken was used to hype the game, it's an unfinished joke (the Kraken).

[MorpheusX]

@IamTylerDurden1

Makes you wonder, why this game has been in development so long, @ least 4 years, & this is all Microsoft/Rare have to show for it?

Hmm. Strange.

Should have been F2P imo with level of content on release.

Attention: This kinda stuff is why Microsoft catches so much hell from game consumers.

It doesn't seem like they care anymore. Main focus on Xbox Live & Services.

Then Xbox fans feel personally attacked when game consumers complain, say negative things, & write Microsoft off.

Hello?,

this is another fine example why there's such contempt for Microsoft in the Gaming Sector.

And Microsoft is charging $60?.

Why? Smh.

[_-EDMIX-_]

So even people who love the game are still expecting more? How does that bode well for the future of this publisher?

I'm sorry but for the price of a $60 game for a game that has been in development for years and a game that's supposed to be a Redemption for this development team this is just shoddy workmanship it is extremely low quality in something that is below the standard for a AAA game in what we come to expect in this industry.

So I'm not entirely sure how they're going to be matching up against some of the best teams in gaming like Sony Santa Monica or naughty dog or Guerilla Games or Kojima Productions when you have their own development teams that are basically missing basic enemies..

So at this point is Microsoft even going to release full price games anymore if they're just going to be budget value quality? I never thought I would have saw the day where Microsoft releasing multiple titles with bad quality and missing content.

I mean sure over the years we always had our own views on Microsoft Back in the Day titles like Halo Gears of War Alan Wake Fable what have you had great quality now they're just releasing very very shoddy games.

At this rate we're actually still waiting for them to even produce any new games that are to the quality of what Gears of War was last generation...

Can we even say Microsoft has anything equivalent to a new IP that was on the scale of what we saw from Gears or Alan Wake or Mass Effect or anything?

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Yikes I knew this was going to happen

[Relientk77]

Ouch

[Destiny1080]

its an "early access" game, but this time there looking for full price

[kevnb]

i think thats ok these days, gran turismo sport did the same.

[Dark_Knightmare2]

Two totally different games lol not to mention gran turismo had more content at launch than this game with plenty more added since by way of free updates but nice try at fanboying better luck next time

[Profchaos]

Sea this coming it's a hard near impossible game to judge because everyone is going to have vastly different experiences some frustrating like constant deaths from PvP others fun quests

[DaDrunkenJester]

Or those insisting on sailing alone fornthe whole game instead of playing how it was meant to be played... with people.

[Rachel_Alucard]

And they shouldn't of let you sail alone if they couldn't figire out a way to make it fun. As it stands now the only way this game is enjoyable according to everyone else and the balance is 3 other friends on the galleon. This game is built upon being social but good luck getting others to bite the bullet

[DaDrunkenJester]

@Rachel

That's why there is matchmaking. I have had a ton of fun with rando's.

[Rachel_Alucard]

@DadrunkenJester

Giving you the option to play Solo even if its a bad experience and causes the player to lose interest overall is bad design regardless of who's defending it. Matchmaking is not a solution to having a fun social game as many don't like interacting with randoms regardless of who's playing. Social games only work with friends and matchmaking won't solve that.

[drunkenspy007]

Played it. It's boring.

[Mr-Dude]

I think a 5/10 is a score you give a game when it is unplayable, so I raise my eyebrows on this score. Now, I don't own a Xbox so I don't know how it plays, only saw streams, but it looks fun albeit a bit barren at the moment. We will see how the rest of the reviews will go, although personally I don't give a shit about reviews anymore. If I like a game I play it, and sites these days are to much political or just pure clickbait. I have more trust in youtubers or streamers

[Sgt_Slaughter]

No, 1-2/10 is unplayable. 5/10 means there's lots wrong with it, fundamental problems, bland features, etc., with maybe a few pluses. I've seen many games that are playable get horribly bad reviews because that's the point of a rating system. If 5 and under couldn't be used, then 6 and above would be way harder to differentiate.

[rainslacker]

What I've seen of the game play, and by most reports, it seems that the game itself plays fine. Most criticism I've seen seems to center around the repetitive content, and how barren it can often seem. Other criticisms seem to center around normal type stuff you'd expect from an MMO, where the actual experience will center more around who else you come across, or who you play with.

[Eonjay]

If something is legitimately broken, or unplayable it gets a 1 or a 2. Only the worst reviewers would ever give a working game a 1 or 2. It it is just horrible, you get a 2.5 or higher. Thats why people need to understand what we mean by objective reviews. A 1 is an objective score that says this game isn't functional. Objectively.

[maybelovehate]

To be fair it was unplayable for most of the day yesterday. At least in the US. Took me over 4 hours to even get in a game and then we kept losing all our inventory.

[Christopher]

5/10 for me isn't unplayable but absolutely not noteworthy in any way. Utterly mediocre and typically boring and a waste of time. Below that is when you talk about being broken.

[ocelot07]

Not going to judge this game until I try it later tonight. £2 for 30 day Xbox game pass will give me enough time to fully play and give an honest opinion about it.

However, Some of the comments and some of reviews are saying the same thing. Something I noticed during the betas but was told not to worry as it's only a beta. After a few hours of the beta I got bored as there was noting else left to do. By the looks of it it's going to be the same for the full game. But again I won't know until I give it a try.

[mark_parch]

if you didn't enjoy the beta you wont enjoy the full game, I actually liked the beta and am enjoying the game so far

[ocelot07]

We will see. I enjoyed the beta with my friends but that only lasted about 2-3 hours until it started feeling like ground hog day. Even if I don't like it or quickly get bored of it. I only spent £1.39 on the game pass for 2 months.

[mark_parch]

@ocelot07
fair point, I hope you have fun

[Rachel_Alucard]

I was in the closed alpha 2 and a half years ago and the only differences since I saw from that and the full game is the cosmetics and the sloop. I'm trying to figure out what the hell they've been doing the past 2 years. Beta and Alpha doesn't mean anything these days it seems.

[FPS_D3TH]

I 100% get the criticism but I’m enjoying the game so far. Met friendly pirates. Sunk some ships. Stole loot in hilarious manners and played for about 5 or 6 hours. I’m not convinced the game will always be something I go for but I plan to play it again tonight.

There’s most definetly a lot I could criticize though about how pricey everything is, the lack of mission variety and clunky melee, but I think a lot of the gameplay and “fun” is player created, which could be called lazy to some, but I enjoy the tools they give us and how they have multiple uses.

I’ve played solo to up to 3 players on a sloop and a 4 man galleon all with friends and really enjoyed myself. I would be very hesitant to pay for more content though with how little there is at the moment. If they do all cosmetics and keep the high price I’m ok if microtransactions support free content updates similar to GTA or Elite Dangerous (which this game kinda reminds me of in different way). The sandbox of this game is great. $60-$80 great? Thats debatable. Yet it’s also a game you want to play when all your friends are playing so you won’t want to miss the boat 😉

[stuna1]

Good comment.

[FPS_D3TH]

:) appreciate it

[maybelovehate]

Well said. Definitely a sandbox experience. The role playing hysterics of friends was by far the best part but also what I wanted to be the best part.

[FPS_D3TH]

Exactly! I’m glad to be playing with the friend I’ve been playing with too, there’s a lot of interesting strategies this game allows. Even had a stranger jump aboard and we gave him a few chests for helping us plunder many others including a galleon of 8 chests

[FPS_D3TH]

Lmao enough salty downvoters here to fill an ocean

[RamRod88]

I don't think the game is a 5/10 or a 9.3/10. Somewhere in the middle like 7.8 or something.

[PurplePeopleEaters]

Why not a 7?

[RamRod88]

That is why I said 7.8 or something. Doesn't have to be a 7.8 but somewhere close.

[mark_parch]

from what I've played so far I would agree but it's still to early to tell

[kevnb]

Seems like its worth downloading if you have gamepass though.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

If you have gamepass it's not like you would be wasting money, so for anyone with any interest in the game may as well try it out.

[Tghood85]

It's ridiculous that one reviewer can give it a 9.3 while another a 5. While opinions vary based on preferences, there should be some uniformity in standards.

[mark_parch]

normally I would agree but with a game like this experiences can vary a lot and some critics will love it whilst others will hate it. I think review scores will be all over the place

[Christopher]

Some game genres really are divisive and separate community opinion.

I would wait a few more days for more informed reviews, though.

[aConIsDemocracy]

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

[AmUnRa]

I spilled my coffee😉

[aConIsDemocracy]

I'm glad someone got it. :)

[DaDrunkenJester]

I knew this game was going to get review scores all over the board. Some people just won't like the open ended, make your own adventure games.

The draw for me to keep coming back is the fun of the game with friends. Tonight we are going to tackle a skeleton fort and do some PvP.

I still want to try and board an enemy ship by launching out of a cannon. Couple of my friends haven't ran into the Kraken either.

[mark_parch]

I managed to grab the ladder of an enemy ship after being fired from a cannon. tried to sneak onboard but didn't last long lol

[DaDrunkenJester]

Ha, that's awesome! I keep sailing riiiiiight over... Doh!

[maybelovehate]

Boarding other ships is definitely fun haha. The Kraken was completely broken for us. Not sure how exactly it is supposed to work but it just plain didn't work for us. Was just one tentacle in the water that didn't attack or anything.

[DaDrunkenJester]

Yeah sounds like a glitch with the instance. Hopefully they have some patches and such lined up, but i know they were having some server issues yesterday.

With how frequently they updated the Alpha tests I'm not too worried about Rare's dedication and transparency.

[welly300]

Its just not very good simple.

[mark_parch]

I think what you meant to say is 'you don't like it'. I happen to know plenty of people who think it's a good game

[welly300]

I think it needs a lot more content. Some Free to play games offer more.

[mark_parch]

@welly300 I think the first content update will be make or break for the game. I think it's supposed to release in a few months. there's enough to do to keep me entertained till then but if they don't add anything significant I won't be playing long after that. especially with state of decay 2 and god of war coming out

[Razzer]

I have a hard time taking any of these early reviews seriously. Two days is not enough time to review a game.

[DaDrunkenJester]

Same here. High reviews or low. it's hard to convince me you're reviewing this NOT based on the beta if you dind't even get passed the initiation quests in the final game. It's all about reaching that Pirate Legend status and then Captain Legend, so if you haven't seen what that exactly is then how are you giving an accurate score of the longevity and such?

[Sgt_Slaughter]

Well that was ironic.

Anyway, I didn't want this game to be mediocre at best, but from the beta gameplay videos to these reviews/articles, this is disappointing to say the least.

[Elda]

For starters $60?? & no 100% fully developed animated Kraken just some tentacles? Smh.

[SubZtx]

I like how some of the same people that say this game lacks content love PUBG....

[Da12RespectA]

Dope game!

[BlaqMagiq1]

This review isn't surprising at all. Expected this.

[StrawberryDiesel420]

Sea of Thieves looks like it should have been free to play. If one can play a game like Fortnite for free...why pay 60 for a game that has less content and replay value?

[AspiringProGenji]

For all the tome they took this sure is dissapointint. Couple of opinions on youtube and some footage point at the same thing: lack of content, progression, solo mode, ships, guns, everything. And that it is not $60 bucks. Huge miss opportunity and not worth $60. Game pass makes sense know eh MS?

[Angerfist]

I was put off by it when I saw it's sort of a MMO.
I never cared for that game tbh in the first place

[Father__Merrin]

This is an excellent game

[aConIsDemocracy]

Down to Davey Jones's locker....

[subtenko]

Another disappointing game, I thought Xbox was gonna bring better multiplats...Im not even gonna get this on PC

Im kinda glad though because I can focus on Skull and Bones coming out

[frostypants]

Wait...this is a $60 game?! How? Why? I assumed it would be $40 tops.

[Dragonscale]

No mans sea lol.

[Kavorklestein]

Seaman's Sky hahaha

[Legacy212]

Reviewers didn't get their copy until yesterday, seems like a very rushed review same as the 9.3 there's still a whole section of the game no one has even seen yet lol

[G20WLY]

Seems to be a glut of bad reviews now. MS! Check your balance!

[DigitalRaptor]

Microsoft has some nerve producing and selling what amounts to a garbage-tier Early Access game for $60 and touting it as one of their big, bad exclusive games that promotes their brand. 5 years into the generation, and MS still showing they haven't got what it takes. The gameplay ain't even serviceable.

[InTheZoneAC]

why are there so many valid comments marked as inappropriate, especially ones that are upvoted a ton to very little downvotes?

[Shakengandulf]

you ask a question you already know the answer to.

[DaGR8JIBRALTAR]

Mannn I knew this would be trash, Rare just can't get right.

[djsilke45]

GEEEEEEET READY TO RUUUUMMBBBLLLEEEE!!! lmao

[NotanotherReboot]

RIP Rare

[Sm00thNinja]

Yeah sending mine back tonight

[NewZealander]

Two days and i feel like ive tried everything there is to do, im struggleing to find a reason to continue...i want to like...but im just meh.

[zekk]

Reviews seem to be all over the place for this game. At least more than normal or is it just me?

[BassMan125]

No Man's Sea

[Emme]

"completely complete" ?

[Emme]

It cant be worse than Destiny, though.

[KillBill]

Sea of Thieves reviews trending right now from some completely unheard of sources:

Gamereactor Sweden
CGM
Oyungezer Online
Starburst Magazine

Seems to be a trend that N4G is really hitting the bottom of the barrel with links to the lowest of the low in their reviews. But hey... click bait has always been a staple for N4G.

[UltraAtomic]

Look this game is not for everyone there's something about this game that gives you a breath of fresh air. It's absolutely amazing and fun. Trust me, there are going to be reviews that give it a low score. Simply because they expect for every game, or every Mmo to have compitve side. Sea of theives does the nope we want to make a fun game and we just want everyone to enjoy going on adventures and meeting new people along the way. Honestly I can say this game deserves an award because it captures something great. I as a owner of a copy of sea of theives love the game and if you have an xbox. I think you should just try it out. Go for the 14 day free trial. If you don't like it well then it just wasn't for you, and you didn't pay a dim for it.

However if you do give a try definitely play with a full crew. It's just built around that. Single play would just, drive you nuts. If you ask me this has been the best game I've played soo far for 2018 👍

[ChronoJoe]

Seems like this is in line with what most critics are saying. While I'm sure some players will enjoy the game, and that's great if you do, it's a shame that Rare have produced another game that isn't getting a good reception. They've done very little to demonstrate that they can redeem their studios image.

[UltraAtomic]

Man I see some comments and I don't want to start pointing fingers here but I mean I am on a supposedly psn love site. Some comments are valid points to bring up about the issues you find about the game, but there were some that are good but they get the dislikes of 233 and a 5 likes, and the comments wasn't saying anything bad about no one. Only pointing what they find to be the good things about the game. that viewers don't feel or see. It annoying but for the ps4 fanboys get yourself a pc or an xbox and just shut up and play!

[NickAwesome]

The inclusion of every XboxOne exclusive from day one in the game pass makes me worry that we will never get ambitious first party games from teamxbox anymore, can they make profit if they sell them at 10 bucks per month? if everything turns out as bad as Sea Of Thieves then to hell with them, they should have sticked with the traditional 60 dollars business model

[Shakengandulf]

this game is going to flop hard.