When does Steel Ocean get good?

Give it 4 hours. In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (61%); after 10h it's 1 in 5 (19%). Fully opens up by hour 10.

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Free To PlayMassively MultiplayerSimulation

Steel Ocean

Nov 12, 2015 Steam: Mixed

Give it 4 hours

Gets good by 4h then rated almost like by veterans

Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players

Started playing 40% of owners

Steam reviews 69% positive of 4,451

What the data shows

In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (61%); after 10h it's 1 in 5 (19%).
Fully opens up by hour 10.
The opening is criticised more than in 90% of games we track.
The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
Only 40% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.

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 4,457 Steam reviews in every language. 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 (40.4% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.

This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.

All achievements (20)

story milestone ending side

Power Overwhelming Win 1 battle. 100%
No Good Deed Sink 10 Destroyers. 61%
Survivor Survive 10 battles. 50%
Getting Better Win 20 battles. 31%
The Monster's Demise Sink 10 Battleships. 21%
Thin Filling Sink 10 light cruisers. 18%
Hide And Seek Sink 10 Submarines. 12%
Butcher Get 5 "Hero" Medals. 11%
Following Orders Sink 10 heavy cruisers. 5.7%
Paper Tiger Sink 10 Aircraft Carriers. 5.4%
Wulf Jager Research a Lv8 destroyer. 3.0%
Bigger than Bigger Research a Lv9 battleship. 3.0%
Coast to Coast Research a Lv9 heavy cruiser. 2.7%
Top Gun Research a Lv9 aircraft carrier. 2.7%
Hunt or Be Hunted Research a Lv8 submarine. 2.7%
Tora! Tora! Tora! Sink Pennsylvania using a Japanese carrier's dive bombers. 2.5%
Imperial Sunset Sink Yamato using a U.S. carrier's torpedo bombers. 2.5%
Pacific Rim Complete: Pacific Beast, Allied Fleet Pride, Mobile Nation, and Unsunken Archipelago. 2.5%
Lexington Cannonade Sink 10 enemy ships with a Lexington's main artillery. 2.5%
Grand Slam Sink one ship of every type in a single battle. 2.5%

Steam page Updated: 2026-10-19.