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Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
Developer HeroCraft
Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan! From the Steam store page
320 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
56
Mixed
99 positive · 77 negative
95% range 49–63%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 99 | 77 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 33 | 5 | 99 |
| Lemmy * | 2 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
698 of 1,113 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
56% recommend · 102 yes, 79 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 181 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (1,808 of 2,624 positive).
Some players find it a fun, nostalgic pirate game that scratches an itch from early 2000s titles. [1][2][3] Others criticize it as a poorly designed mobile port with repetitive gameplay and a confusing tutorial. [4][5][6] A few reviewers note it has clunky controls and interface issues but can be enjoyable on sale. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
The game's just bad. The activities are very samey and repetitive. There's no story, no character interaction so quests will become boring very fast. Sail here, sail there - board/sink. Rinse-repeat. I only played it for the achievements initially then got interested by the naval battles. This is the only part of the game that is decent. But, again, it's all a part of grinding machine. Full completion is behind …
- [6]
Don't trust the bot positive reviewers, this game seems an unfinished scam. I started it multiple times because I love the setting and was searching for a pirate game, and I WANTED it to be good, but it isn't. The tutorial starts with a very long list of micro-operations in various fields, such as commerce, repairing, hiring crew, battling. But it is just a series of tasks that is long and tedious. If you see the …
- [1]
This is the game Assassin's Creed Black Flag wishes it was! It's better than sex, because during sex I get yelled at when I do my pirate voice! Although my wife’s boyfriend says it’s a pirate game not worth even being pirated… Definitely one of the best pirate-themed games on Steam. Picture it as a very polished Sid Meier's Pirates, but with 25x the missions, stronger graphics, a fantastic score and 100% less …
- [2]
Its clunky which makes is harder, you have to find out everything for yourself like in the old days, if you can get through that its a good pirate game!
- [3]
It's kinda janky, but man at least to me it scratches that pirate itch from early 2000's titles!
Summarised from 34 of the 289 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
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Tempest: Pirate Action RPG sits at 56% positive across 176 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 320 · most liked firstIf you are a successful indie dev feeling the pressure to do something bigger and better with your next game, remember Jeff Minter. He made Tempest, and then made Tempest again and again. And every time, there are those of us who say: "hell yeah." We will say hell yeah for you as well.
positive · AI labelView post →it's been a while, but i've returned to the video game music mashup mines enjoy this SA2 x Sonic CD remix. i call it.... "Death Tempest" 😎
neutral · AI labelView post →Some more cheeky #GodotEngine 'watch-dev'. On the one hand, was an interesting challenge thinking of a game that made sense on the form factor. Only radial game I could think of was old school Tempest. On the other, these devices clearly aren't made for it. I rinsed the battery in no time!
neutral · AI labelView post →It still feels pretty crazy that the DOS port of "Tempest 2000" (1996) had an option for a native Roland MT-32 rearrangement of the soundtrack. The DOS port of the game is surprisingly impressive, and until very recently was my preferred way of playing the game. #DOSGaming #RolandMT32 #MT32
positive · AI labelView post →Tempest Rising is polished, great playing, and technically sound Unreal Engine 5 PC release. Building on the mechanics of genre classics, the game delivers an incredible single player campaign experience that will delight RTS fans. Definitely play this one if you can! My review: youtu.be/kECF2bq2_e0
neutral · AI labelView post →My days not done yet! Join me on twitch for a look at the new RTS game (featured on the #GalaxiesShowcase) TEMPEST RISING. Very excited for some new RTS action. #TempestRising twitch.tv/jessecox
neutral · AI labelView post →You can usually get a delightful result from Claude 3.7 by just saying "I want a ____ simulator" "reverse flight" - creates a game where you control the weather not the plane (clever) "angry bee" - creates a box of bees I can agitate "Tempest" - Shakespeare sim "Pynchon" - Pretty great madlibs
neutral · AI labelView post →Acidjazzed Evening cover/study! (WIP) original author: Janne "Tempest" Sunni chip: Game Boy APU #chiptune
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a new C&C tribute-kinda game called Tempest Rising and the gameplay is quite good, but the movies are all animated and the voices sound like AI. Really disappointing. (But I still recommend the game if you like that sort of thing.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Hanging out at an arcade spot last night and playing on a Tempest cabinet. My kid: "That looks Rez"* Parental pride x 1000 *Kid knows that Rez is probably my favorite game of all time.
positive · AI labelView post →This is the game Assassin's Creed Black Flag wishes it was! It's better than sex, because during sex I get yelled at when I do my pirate voice! Although my wife’s boyfriend says it’s a pirate game not worth even being pirated… Definitely one of the best pirate-themed games on Steam. Picture it as a very polished Sid Meier's Pirates, but with 25x the missions, stronger graphics, a fantastic score and 100% less redundant ballroom dancing. It has the graphics of Assassin's Creed Pirates, the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Disclosure: Game provided by publisher] Hey folks, I'm live now! Today let's check out Tempest Rising, a game that harks back to the days of Command & Conquer, and they even got C&C composer Frank Klepacki to do the music. Come by and say hi! www.twitch.tv/caseyexplosion
neutral · AI labelView post →Why this gets a bad review is the random pop ups PAUSING you in the middle of play saying hey, check out our other game, absolutely atrocious and you should be ashamed to have such ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in your game. I refunded because of this. So if you like random pop ups, this game is for you!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wow, glowing user reviews for Tempest Rising! I was genuinely not expecting that, as RTS fans tend to be brutal and exacting, and the game only barely survived the whole rolling Embracer catastrophe. This month isn't just overloaded with games, but good ones too. Gonna be catching up for months...
positive · AI labelView post →Trying something new with the Peepers this week, who do you think is cuter?! (old design below 👇) Learn more about Tempest Tower and Wishlist the game here: hpy.lol/TempestTower #WishlistWednesday #indiedev #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Apropos of nothing* but does anyone have a game inspired by The Tempest? * that is a fib but it also might come to nothing
neutral · AI labelView post →I am fine with video game remakes but they should all follow the Tempest 2000-4000 route and add lots of psychedelic explosions, dance music, and some sheep noises too.
positive · AI labelView post →If you've not played Tempest 2000 on the Atari Jaguar (yes, with the original controller - spinner version even better) then you've been missing out.
positive · AI labelView post →The bar here has my favorite arcade game Tempest. so playing while waiting for pizza delivery. #fc2026
positive · AI labelView post →The game's just bad. The activities are very samey and repetitive. There's no story, no character interaction so quests will become boring very fast. Sail here, sail there - board/sink. Rinse-repeat. I only played it for the achievements initially then got interested by the naval battles. This is the only part of the game that is decent. But, again, it's all a part of grinding machine. Full completion is behind paywall. There's way too much grinding for a game of his level, it could've been a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is Tempest 2000 the best game on the Atari Jaguar? Quite possibly. It's definitely up there with the best of them. youtu.be/kxs8RXR_3Jc
positive · AI labelView post →close enough, welcome back command and conquer (game is Tempest: Rising)
neutral · AI labelView post →Moving on with my Ranger Rumble art series, here's Captain Tempest! The bulky yet soft hearted Space Pirate 🥺☠️ lol he's currently one of my strongest characters in the game! #art #RatchetandClank #traditionalart
neutral · AI labelView post →Voltage Inc. New Game: Sins of Kaleido - Cast and New Trailer Reveal! Nobuhiko Okamoto Kohei Amasaki Hikaru Midorikawa Takuya Sato Tomoaki Maeno The game is set in the same universe as Even if Tempest!
neutral · AI labelView post →should have finished these sooner but consider I was trying and failing the ultimate fishfest scavenger hunt. The Tempest is still one of my favorite maps in this game I think #ffxiv #finalfantasy #natureartparty
positive · AI labelView post →Get it for free on google play store, its a mobile game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Three headshot comms for a friend of mine! These are characters from a card game he really enjoys called Sentinels of the Multiverse: Lifeline, Tempest, and Stuntman :)
neutral · AI labelView post →I, Robot announced by Atari, a trippy remake of the 1983 game by industry legend Jeff Minter (Llamatron, Tempest 2000, Polybius). Coming to consoles, PC, and VR. (Official Atari page)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tempest Shadow wearing N7 Armor from my favorite game Mass Effect done done again by @theabbeyroadie.bsky.social love it
neutral · AI labelView post →I cannot stress how much WEATHERVANE won the game for Tempest. Like, I was able to take win/loss statistics, casualty predictions, and squad costs, and accurately price war contracts' % gross profit. #over/under never saw a Hot War from Tempest and WV proved it would have been *brutal*.
positive · AI labelView post →Alex: ... she's the one causing it 😅 (if it's a storm not of her making tho, she just takes it as a chance to read or game) Jason: tries to hunt down Tempest not knowing she's his girlfriend. Stormy days remind him of the deaths of his parents and he gets livid all over again
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't usually "get" 80s games but Tempest is the exception, that game rules
positive · AI labelView post →Tempest has been receiving a lot of bad reviews lately, their misinformative I've owned Tempest for quite awhile. It's not a perfect game but it isn't broken, extremely buggy or crashes regularly and the 3D setting does mess up your screen but its really easy to reset with a grain of patience. This isn't Sea of Thieves where everything is preset and boat go faster in wind, cannon go boom and Blunderbuss everything, it takes time to figure things out. Each ship has its own advantages and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ose hitting that Tempest Slash! Best persona imo, he carried my game 🙏🙏
positive · AI labelView post →There's so much RNG and repetitive stuff in this game that there's not really any time to do the important stuff. Very repetitive. Tutorial also barely teaches you anything, and there's no tooltips anywhere. UI was not redone for PC, and you're expected to know that you need to swipe like you're on a phone to access certain menus. It is a very poorly designed game. Not really fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →even if TEMPEST is out on Steam A dark fantasy otome game, written by Ushio Ayane (Norn9) It follows the story of a dying girl who is resurrected by a witch and returned to a blank slate. But her resolve to be better will only lead to further misfortune
neutral · AI labelView post →Tempest was my game too. I had the high score in my local arcade! Briefly!
positive · AI labelView post →even if TEMPEST series sales top 100,000 copies Dark fantasy otome game by Voltage is currently available on Steam and Switch in English, Japanese, and Chinese
neutral · AI labelView post →The arcade game Tempest is 44 years old this month. A beautiful, but challenging game, I still can't resist playing it all these years later even though I haven't really gotten better at it. www.retroist.com/p/retroist-t...
positive · AI labelView post →The man got visions of the game Tempest beamed to his brain from the fewchurr.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thank you so much @panda8ngel.bsky.social for participating in the game! I loved your answers especially the one about what Tempest had painted 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →We're thrilled to share that Tempest Rising has been nominated for Best Sim/Strategy game of 2025 at #TheGameAwards! Cast your vote: bit.ly/tgavote
neutral · AI labelView post →The otome game “Even if TEMPEST” is getting a Steam port!
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't trust the bot positive reviewers, this game seems an unfinished scam. I started it multiple times because I love the setting and was searching for a pirate game, and I WANTED it to be good, but it isn't. The tutorial starts with a very long list of micro-operations in various fields, such as commerce, repairing, hiring crew, battling. But it is just a series of tasks that is long and tedious. If you see the Steam Achievements, currently only 34% have passed the tutorial, and this means…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In a word, frustrating. In a few more words, it feels like a fledgling Early Access game. I'm not going to try to articulate my feelings for this game, I'm simply going to list (some) of what's wrong with it. 1. The "tutorial" barely scratches the surface and poorly conveys what it does tell/show you. It's just do this, then this, then this, job done. 2. The world map shows icons for locations. These icons have no text, nor descriptor beyond a picture, mouse over and you gain no further…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this for about 2 bucks. Good dad game. Can play 5 minutes pause and come back. Clunky and unbalanced as hell, but someone clearly had fun making this. I recommend this for anyone who doesn't have enough time or friends to enjoy Sea of Thieves.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The great RTS game Tempest Rising has a big The Veti's Wrath DLC announced #TempestRising #RTS #Gaming #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to throw up - that's how bad it is. Don't even consider this game. They have no idea how to design a game. It looks AAA from a distance but it's not. It plays like a mobile game. Get this - to scroll through menus - you click and drag left/right. In one menu area, what could be one giant menu is 5 submenus each with their own scroll thing. Oh, and it refuses to NOT do the cinematic shots (think Sniper: Ghost Warrior) for EVERY. SHOT. By default, you automatically autofire if a target…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Units promoted. Tempest Rising won two awards at the 2026 Danish Game Awards!🏆
neutral · AI labelView post →Another one of those "Not for me" type of games. I went through the tutorial and I understood absolutely nothing by the end of it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The otome game “even if TEMPEST” is NOW OUT on Steam! ⏳💕 After being executed Anastasia gains the power to rewind time. She must use it to uncover the truth, change her fate and survive deadly witch trials ⚔️🩸
neutral · AI labelView post →Friendly reminder that even if TEMPEST releases on Steam this month! And no, you cannot fuck the monster on the cover, but it's still a very good game regardless!!
positive · AI labelView post →The dark fantasy otome game “even if TEMPEST” is getting a Steam port on September 24th! 🥳
neutral · AI labelView post →Slipgate Ironworks is nominated for Danish Game Studio of the Year! If you've enjoyed playing Tempest Rising, consider voting for us here: bit.ly/VoteDGA
neutral · AI labelView post →This baseball game is now officially longer than Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and approaching Tempest.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you gaze for long into the arcade game Tempest, Tempest gazes also into you.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's an extremely bad game. I bought it after being fooled by the comments. Why is it bad? Bad workmanship, bad gaming experience, expensive game. 1. It was written with the Unity game engine, many things are already ready, not much effort was put into it. 2. It kills the computer, yes it's not an optimized game at all. 3. It's not taken care of, for example when you right click the mouse the mouse disappears, it doesn't matter which screen you're on, the same thing happens even on the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically a pretty decent more recent take on Sid Meier's Pirates. Sea battles are pretty fun, ship management is OK and everything else is bare bones. At least it isn't buggy. There's also multiplayer, but seems like there is no community any more to find random players. There is a mobile version too and I can't help but wonder if the plan always was to get to mobile eventually. Would explain some interface choices. Could still recommend for the fans of shooting broadsides on other ships, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →That’s the only kind I ever get - looks like an old vector video game like Tempest
neutral · AI labelView post →This looks pretty rad. I already have a giant 2-player stick (by X-Arcade - sadly without a trackball) but for solo gaming this thing has enough options to cover pretty much any game. You've not played Centipede until you've played with a track ball! Or Tempest with a dial! #blutoid #arcade
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