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Rogue Waters
The first hour is a test
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 80% of owners
Steam reviews 74% positive of 1,334
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (48%); after 10h it's almost 1 in 4 (22%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 75% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 80% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,345 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 12.7h for positive, 6.9h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (80.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (18)
- Betrayed Complete the Prologue on any tier 100%
- A Rogue Reborn Complete Act I on any tier 41%
- Heart of Glass Complete Act II on any tier 22%
- Priority Shipping Buy all Ship upgrades 21%
- Quartermaster Buy all Equipment upgrades 19%
- Plunder and Ruin! Complete Act III on any tier 16%
- All Decked Out Buy all Crew upgrades 9.4%
- Rise of the Sea Shepherd Buy all Sea Monsters upgrades 6.6%
- Rising Tide Defeat Blackbone's final form on difficulty level Heroic III or higher. 4.4%
- The Legendary Captain Cutter Reach maximum Cutter level 3.0%
- Masterchef Reach the maximum Cook level 2.9%
- That's the Spear-it! Reach the maximum Spearmaiden level 2.6%
- Knives Out! Reach the maximum Backstabber level 2.2%
- He's Flippin' Brilliant! Reach the maximum Grappler level 2.1%
- Dead shot Reach the maximum Musketeer level 1.9%
- An Eye for an Eye! Defeat the Blackbone's final form on difficulty level Ultimate V or higher. 1.9%
- Leave It To Cleaver! Reach the maximum Cleaver level 1.6%
- Terror of the Seas! Defeat the Blackbone's final form on difficulty level Ultimate IX. 1.0%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.