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Sea of Thieves: 2025 Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

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Quick resume

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.

Global score

89/100

Genres

Action, Adventure

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    Pros

    • Beautiful immersive world and graphics
    • Strong cooperative gameplay with friends
    • Engaging ship combat and mechanics
    • Regular content updates and events
    • High replayability and emergent stories

    Cons

    • Toxic player community in pvp
    • Steep learning curve and grind
    • Bugs and server instability reported
    • Solo play can be frustrating
    • Limited character customization

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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      "Players have freedom to explore the open world, choose quests and playstyle, and customize abilities and gear."

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    • Competence

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      "The game involves skillful ship design, resource management, and combat tactics, though some tasks can be repetitive or simple."

      Capsule for The Last Starship The Last Starship

      "Game offers skill-based ship handling, combat, and coordination challenges; however, some grind and repetitive tasks are noted."

    • Competition

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      "Strong PvP focus with ranked and casual modes, matchmaking, and player vs player battles emphasizing skill and strategy."

      Capsule for Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game Yi Xian: The Cultivation Card Game

      "Strong PvP focus with ship battles, player-versus-player encounters, and leaderboards; competitive elements are core to gameplay."

    • Continuation

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      "Many players report long sessions and habitual play, with some spending dozens of hours and returning frequently."

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    • Cooperation

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      "Highly cooperative gameplay requiring teamwork to operate ship systems and coordinate attacks."

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      "Highly cooperative gameplay with ship crews requiring teamwork; playing with friends strongly recommended and enhances experience."

    • Creativity

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      "Players can customize ships, loadouts, and character appearance, though mostly within predefined options."

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    • Domination

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      "PvP includes raiding and power struggles, with some toxic players reported, but community and devs promote respectful interactions and balanced gameplay."

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      "PvP includes exerting control over others by sinking ships and stealing loot; some toxic player behavior reported."

    • Escapism

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      "Players use the game for nostalgia, stress relief, and immersive fantasy pirate adventures."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for fun and social reasons; no indication of obligation or external pressure to play."

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    • Experimenting

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      "Players explore different skills, combat styles, and quest approaches, though some grinding is routine."

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    • Exploration

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      "Large open world with many islands, secrets, and vertical level design encourages discovery and curiosity."

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    • Expression

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      "Character and ship customization allow for personal expression, though mostly cosmetic."

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    • Fantasy

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      "Strong fantasy pirate theme with imaginative characters, story, and settings."

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    • Fellowship

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      "Strong sense of community and shared experience between players, often couples or close friends."

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    • Growth

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      "Players develop skills and knowledge over time, learning game mechanics and improving ship builds despite grind."

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    • Health

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      "Primarily sedentary gameplay with no physical activity; some players mention long sessions."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires active attention and multitasking; not suited for idle or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Players form close social bonds, couples, and friendships, though some toxic interactions are reported."

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    • Leadership

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      "Players can lead crews and coordinate ship roles, though leadership is shared among team members."

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    • Progression

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      "Progression is skill-based with cosmetic unlocks; no complex item or upgrade accumulation."

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    • Relaxation

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      "Game offers moments of flow and relaxation but also involves tension from PvP and complex management."

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    • Sensation

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      "Enjoyable visual and auditory experience with beautiful ocean and island environments."

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    • Status

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      "Players gain recognition through in-game achievements and leaderboards, though social visibility is limited."

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    • Story

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      "Contains a narrative with characters and lore, though story is not the main focus."

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Fellowship, Domination, Status. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Story, Intimacy.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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