Sea Dogs
Sea Dogs
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Game2012
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
Developer BlackMark Studio
1654 AC. The Caribbean. A place of opportunities and mysteries. From the Steam store page
239 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
53
Mixed
88 positive · 79 negative
95% range 45–60%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 88 | 79 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 2 | 60 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
274 of 469 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
54% recommend · 95 yes, 82 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 177 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (1,737 of 2,362 positive).
Players say the game is deeply rewarding but requires immense patience and mods. [1][2][3] Many reviewers warn that bugs, poor translation, and timed quests make it frustrating. [4][5][6] Some call it the best pirate RPG despite its flaws and dated graphics. [7][8][9]
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Despite it's lengthy development cycle this game fails to bring experience that isn't constantly wading through gargantuan amount of bugs, godawful translation and demented AI. Akella's sailing games aren't known for being bug free but despite it's shortcomings pirates of caribbean was at least charming and it's jankiness could have been excused by it's age, after all it's a 19 years old game. 19 years and few games …
- [5]
Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Load game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Load game. Save game................. I played Seadogs and AoP, this is a downgrade. The game took the other games flaws and did not improve in any way. The main story is bad, the side missions are not pleasant. Certain mods are …
- [1]
This is a redo of a previous negative review. WARNING! there are huge stipulations required to recommend this game. 1. Get Hook's mod/active map Seriously, it makes the game playable and reduces tedium and the frantic pace to something manageable. Without this mod, the game is mostly hopeless. 2. Read one of the great mission and game guides on steam. you WILL miss dozens of scripted missions without realizing what …
- [2]
Sea Dogs is a very unique game of almost limitless depth and one of the most complex but rewarding RPGs ever made. It is also the best pirate game ever by a long shot. If you can get past the opening, which requires many, many resets, luck and trial-and-error, and also accept the sketchy translation, voice overs and unexplained mechanics (all of which I think give the game a unique charm and charisma), you'll be …
- [3]
Good game, but you need a lot of patience for the first hours or days in it, because it's probably not something you expect. You can't just jump into it and expect it to be an ordinary RPG where you sit for hours consuming content without any effort. Read the materials before you play. The pitfalls mentioned by other reviewers are true. Most quests are time-limited. Long story short, if you just sail using the …
Summarised from 34 of the 244 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
54% of the 177 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Sea Dogs: To Each His Own. The complaint that keeps coming up: bugs, poor translation, and broken mechanics. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
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60 of 239 · most liked firstSea Dogs had their final game rained out, and it won't be rescheduled. They finished 71-65, drew 370,046 fans, and had 25 sellouts.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have listened to Emma call countless Sea Dogs games the last few years. She is a no-doubt big leaguer. Nice column from @tara-sullivan.bsky.social on tonight's all-female Red Sox broadcast. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/s...
neutral · AI labelView post →One of multiple games published by BlackMark Studio using the same assets as previous Sea Dogs games [including the Pirates of the Caribbean game made by Akella and published by Bethesda, and seemingly assets from the community-made New Horizons modpack which I believe originated the "Caleuche", which is literally just a clone of the Flying Dutchman from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, that I'm fairly certain they do not have licensing rights from Disney for.] They all appear to be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a redo of a previous negative review. WARNING! there are huge stipulations required to recommend this game. 1. Get Hook's mod/active map Seriously, it makes the game playable and reduces tedium and the frantic pace to something manageable. Without this mod, the game is mostly hopeless. 2. Read one of the great mission and game guides on steam. you WILL miss dozens of scripted missions without realizing what you are getting into unless you know or can reference the missions ahead…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite it's lengthy development cycle this game fails to bring experience that isn't constantly wading through gargantuan amount of bugs, godawful translation and demented AI. Akella's sailing games aren't known for being bug free but despite it's shortcomings pirates of caribbean was at least charming and it's jankiness could have been excused by it's age, after all it's a 19 years old game. 19 years and few games later, the developer not only shows next to no increase in quality but it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Load game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Save game. Load game. Save game................. I played Seadogs and AoP, this is a downgrade. The game took the other games flaws and did not improve in any way. The main story is bad, the side missions are not pleasant. Certain mods are essential. In each mission, I needed a guide on the other screen, 'cause the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Are you into Pirate games? Are you a masochist? Great. Do you enjoy outdated graphics, interface and gameplay mechanics, or in other words: Would you like to get eye-cancer? Marvellous. Do you like games, which unnecessarily force you to become the worst save scumming piece of crap on the seven seas? Awesome! Is there a lack of toxic relationships in your life and you're searching for a game to fill in the gap by being the most frustrating experience you've ever had, since you've started gaming…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Akella's sequel to their pirate RPG, Sea Dogs (2000), was bought by Disney and renamed Pirates of the Caribbean as a tie-in for its 2003 film Despite a few other changes, it had little to do with the film. That didn't stop it from being an incredibly fun pirate sandbox for many, though. Arrrh!
positive · AI labelView post →One of the worst game in series. You will ask me why? Well let's start.. Total game concept is the same as it was on previos game as open world, great quests, lot's of ships. freedom, sailing, trading. But the is one exception, everything is broken by unbalanced enemies, timer which will force you to not use every good feature listed before because you will not have a time for it. Generally you must chose what you want freeroam world or main quest. For me it is not acceptable and it breakes…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Bought the Original Akella Titles back in the day... I may have actually spent an entire calendar year out at sea just enamoured with sailing... No they are currently restarting work on these classics, and I can't Recommend them Enough !!! Let's all support this Group and we may see this develop quite a bit more... More Ships, like the Duke of Kent 4-Deck Class, and maybe they will bring back the classic Micro Submarine to deploy for stealth kills etc... Also, the Island and cities can now…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've tried to like this series for years. I own City of Abandoned Ships and this one. I have played it all with whatever "top of the line" mods exist to "make the game better." I'm down with mods making a game better. In this case, though, nothing can save this for me. I cannot recommend. Major downers for me: - Can't play it without a walk through. I mean, you can try, but it'll drive you nuts. - Like similar "sims" out there, this one is a chore to play. All aspects are tedious chores. -…
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best Pirates RPGs ever made, it feels like reading a book it's a wonderful experience, what a game!! Hope the developers make a new Pirate game with newer graphics someday, they're one of the best story makers I've ever seen.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships (COAS) is one of the best games I have ever played. I bought this because I thought it would be fun like COAS, but it was awful in almost all aspects. Advantages: Shooting with muskets is fun until 15 LVL. "Bij de wind" is works. You can wear cuirasses without a stupid perk from COAS. Steam saves cloud. Disadvantages: The start tutorial is very poor. (The COAS tutorial doesn't exist, but better nothing than "that"). Almost all quests have a time limit,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The play-by-play voice of the Portland Sea Dogs, the Double-A affiliate of the Red Sox, Tiedemann will be on the call of Tuesday’s Red Sox game as a part of the Women’s Celebration Night at Fenway Park, which will feature an all-female broadcast team.
neutral · AI labelView post →Absurd as it may sound, this is STILL the best Pirate/Trading/Adventure sim that exists.... 8yrs old and it still has no competition. I TRULY, TRULY wish someone would take it over and keep the core elements and add to it. It seriously deserves the love. It's surprisingly vast... I still haven't a clue as to much or most of the map explorations possible - which is kind of crazy considering how much i've played it. Don't bother using any setting other than normal difficulty, or you'll find it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I decided to make this because I saw the devs "final" dlc in the news page. Pretty dang sure you said the last dlc was the "last" one, and the one before that. I think they just use that "final" thing to make extra sales. (Edit- They released yet another "final" dlc, and another "final" one after that. So yeah, that's a lie every time they've said it.) The game itself? Most of my hours I have in this game was trying to do the tutorial correctly, because in this game you either skip it and go…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Harley Cameron, Dean Malenko and Scotty2Hotty at the Portland Sea Dogs baseball game yesterday #AEW
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t fault Connolly Early. A couple of months ago he was pitching for the Portland Sea Dogs in AA. Asking him to pitch a do or die game in Yankee Stadium is a lot.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game was made by sadists.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While everyone was talking about GTA, a game that I thought was canceled forever was released. If you were a fan of Sea Dogs or any of Akella's work at all, you might remember this one from back in the day. If God of War (05) gameplay mixed with a Pirate theme sound fun check this out.
positive · AI labelView post →ARRRRGGHH! Ready to assemble a crew of PIRATE DOGS! Check out these Sea Dogs from my upcoming board game, Salty Scurvy Sea Dogs! #boardgames #boardgamegeek #boardgame #indiedev #indiegame
neutral · AI labelView post →Sea Dogs is a very unique game of almost limitless depth and one of the most complex but rewarding RPGs ever made. It is also the best pirate game ever by a long shot. If you can get past the opening, which requires many, many resets, luck and trial-and-error, and also accept the sketchy translation, voice overs and unexplained mechanics (all of which I think give the game a unique charm and charisma), you'll be rewarded with a truly open and rewarding experience the likes of which are so…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would have enjoyed it if it didnt have all the bugs it had :(. cant play in fullscreen and required borderless gaming to work and a number of the early missions wouldnt trigger causing me to restart the game multiple times. When it works im sure it is good but as of now it isnt really worth the purchase unless you get it on sale.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game, even modded, is too much hardcore for its own good. I did not mind the outdated graphics, being into videogames since the DOS era, i have seen far worse. The game is so punishing that does not want you to have fun with it. It is not the micromanaging, the not very friendly UI or a few logic errors here and there. It is the fact that it cheats to get you. Land combat is terrible by any means, the logic behind it is sound though. And that stands for the execution of the sea battles,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Peter in Portland, Maine, on April 6, 1995. He was there to perform the National Anthem at the opening game of the Portland Sea Dogs. Photo by Sue Rioux. #PeterTork #TheMonkees
neutral · AI labelView post →Taking the kiddos to the Sea Dogs game means making the pasta sauce & meatballs early so supper isn't too late. Smelling some good in here!
neutral · AI labelView post →Hardcore charming rpg experience for oldschool lovers of piracy and roleplaying. Its completely playable and worthy despite all the engine limitations or just bugs. Project is unique nowadays and deserves love for the passion and effort put into it. Tread carefully as it may be too hardcore for your liking but rewarding if you stick to it. Be prepared to invest in order to have fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I loved the original Sea Dogs so I'd thought I try this game. After 18 hours I've given up on it. There is two main problems. The quests encourages saving/loading after every action making them not enjoyable at all. Time passes too quickly in relation to movement when using the quick travel map making it useless if you have any timed quests. If you do a time quest you have to sail for hours even with 8x accelerated time or install mods to change the quick travel. I got fed up of loading…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#ALLCAPS prospect Eriks Mateiko scored two for the Sea Dogs in last nights win over the No. 1 ranked Wildcats. @thehockeynews.bsky.social #QMJHL thehockeynews.com/qmjhl/game-d...
neutral · AI labelView post →Its truly sad that the pirates of the Caribbean made in 2002 is better quality and better made than this and it was rebooted and remade. Its so awful Im tempted to ask for a refund which I have never done on steam. But from a true fan of the originals this was the biggest letdown ever!!!!! Avoid and don't pay for this just pray ubisoft figures something out great for us pirate game lovers in the future!! Updated : Gave it another hour or 2 of play its still complete trash. The sea map is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game, but you need a lot of patience for the first hours or days in it, because it's probably not something you expect. You can't just jump into it and expect it to be an ordinary RPG where you sit for hours consuming content without any effort. Read the materials before you play. The pitfalls mentioned by other reviewers are true. Most quests are time-limited. Long story short, if you just sail using the global map (the most obvious way), you'll fail the quest, and break the main story…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →692 hours of frustration later.... I still love this game! I have played all the previous iterations of this series and it fills a niche that has been hard for me to find. On one hand you have games with very deep naval combat like Naval Action but they lack any role play, others like Atlas have plenty of crafting / survival aspects but are totally focused on multiplayer pvp. others are just arcade style. SDTEHO was originally a Russian only release and the English version came out in 2016, we…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's unforgiving but fun. Dated graphics and mechanics but that's a lot of the charm. It's definitely not for everyone but I love it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately it's the best pirate game out there. Broken quests, boring gameplay most of the time, jarring progression and mostly busted mechanics. A four-hour tutorial that leaves you unprepared to play the game and serves mostly as a mechanism to unlock features which should be available from the beginning. Pretty much the same game that's been released at least 4 times since 2000, and it looks like it. It would be nice if a game studio could take the concept and all the trade/ship stuff…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And with that, another Maine winter is officially behind us. Looking forward to warmer days ahead! This will be the year we finally get Bernie to a Sea Dogs game.
neutral · AI labelView post →My name is commander Shepard and this is my favorite pirate game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A realistic experience but not fun to play. (I'm not a native english speaker so some typos may occure in this post) Reviewing this game is hard, because on the one hand it is a pretty accurate and realistic simulation of the 17th century in the Carribean islands and it is a pretty realistic simulation of naval warfare in the 17th century, but on the other hand it is too much to handle for the player. It delivers much more than a buyer could and would expect from an old game like this one. If…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game still has alot of unsolved bugs which can break your save games and the current quest your on. The devs have not released any updates/patches in a long time to try and solve these issues, even tho it seems that plenty of bugs have been reported. It is a shame, since i think the game has alot of potential if some of the bugs was solved.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually even collating the top 10 for me was difficult, this'll probably change if I did this next month. As you can see, I have a type. Fun Fact: That POTC game you see? The only tie it has is the Pearl, and the narrator. Otherwise it's just a Sea Dogs game.
positive · AI labelView post →ICE agents were tasked with storming and occupying a Sea Dogs game in progress
neutral · AI labelView post →Surprising no one, Emma Tiedeman, the Portland Sea Dogs announcer called up to call the middle innings of tonight’s Red Sox game on NESN, is blowing Dave O’Brien out of the water.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rats ate my crew!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sea Dogs: To Each His Own has everything to love from Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships, but with a complex overarching narrative directly related to the player character, Charles de Maure. As CoAS players will know, the only protagonist-related story in that game was Peter Blood's "tutorial" section - though to call it a tutorial is laughable given that said section was one of the hardest in CoAS. In TEHO, most story missions outside of the sandbox directly tie into Charles' narrative…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game, but the game play especially in the beginning is way to restrictive. The only thing that keeps me coming back is the nostalgia factor from playing hours and hours of the Pirates of the Caribbean game. I also find it extremely frustrating that without hours of grinding the accuracy skill, or lucking out by finding the right officer (who by the way can just up and leave your party because hardcore gaming is the best..) you don't have a shot at hitting anything you aim…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I thought it would be an update to Sea Dogs City of Abandoned Ships but woo boy was I wrong. This game is slow as hell, 1.3 hours in and I'm still basically stuck on the first island but I think what really killed it for me is the dialog. It's like a 15 year old who just learned to curse wrote it. I get it Timmy, you learnt how to say ♥♥♥♥ and ♥♥♥♥♥ an now you want to use it in every single ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ possible ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time. I went back to AC Black Flag to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A PIRATE RPG THAT LIKES TO SEE YOU FAIL From the same russian guys that brought you the cult classic "Sea Dogs" (1999-2000) yet they are unable to reproduce the same magic 12 years later (also the guys from Age of Pirates series). As tons of other guys out there, I also say buy City of Abandoned Ships and install the Gentlemen of Fortune mod, but just forget about To Each His Own. This game is hardcore in a miserable, unproductive way; if you ever felt that you are just wasting your life…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just found the Portland Sea Dogs had a Scooby Doo day and wore these for the game today. For those who don't know, The Sea Dogs are a Minor League affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.
neutral · AI labelView post →Going to a minor league baseball game tomorrow as part of another fundraiser: The Manchester Fischer Cats vs. The Portland Sea Dogs. I don't really follow baseball but it should be fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Portland Sea Dogs will play a game as the Maine Candlepins this season, a tribute to a popular style of bowling unique to the area. Read about it on @sportslogos.net at news.sportslogos.net/2025/03/20/p...
neutral · AI labelView post →I was proud of some work I did for Maine Audubon, including throwing out the first pitch at a Sea Dogs game and passing New England’s first bird safe architecture in Portland.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been following these guys for a while but after witnessing this release I think it's safe to say it would be best for them to just disappear. Their response to just criticism is baffling. The game is completely broken and unbearable. Stay away from it AND 'Caribbean Legends'
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off, at the time I bought this game it was probably one of the better Pirate games, with the exception of Black Flag, but this is a rather slim genre, on Steam anyway. My main gripe is how the developers have been spamming in this title to promote their "new" game: a very minor reskin of THIS EXACT GAME.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game would be great, but everything feels like a chore. I did not have fun at all with this game, although i loved Pirates of the Carribean Sea and liked City Of Abandoned Ships... I also do not understand how this game manages to look more dated compared to the predecessor. If you try to open the manual, you get redirected to the steam page on your browser, so there is none. So why do the developers even add this to the library page? Last but not least the translation from Russian to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is great, story, fights, trading, and in short life.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🙏🏼⚾️🌦️ no rain today. Going to Portland for a Sea Dogs baseball game!
neutral · AI labelView post →I may not be at AC this weekend, but at least I'll get to see some suiting at the Sea Dogs game tonight!
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2022, I was in Portland and went to a Sea Dogs game. They lost a slugfest to Hartford 14-12. Ceddanne Rafaela had just been called up from A ball. He went 4-5 with a HR. That was my introduction to him I didn’t remember his stats off hand. I looked them up. I remembered him having a great game
neutral · AI labelView post →Filmmaker extraordinaire Bill Darmon made this fantastic video on this past Sunday's International Cryptozoology Museum / Scooby Doo Day at the Portland Sea Dogs game where I was fortunate enough to join in on the first pitch festivities. Check it out, it's awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nzn...
neutral · AI labelView post →Sub Hunt? Sea Dogs? Tidal Strike? Whatever the name is, here's Dev Log 0! youtu.be/5Alexo3FW38 Excited to share with you all! #indiedev #gamedev
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