AdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy
Nantucket
Give it 10 hours
Gets good by 10h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 15h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 35% of owners
Steam reviews 79% positive of 883
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (48%); after 15h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 15.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 35% 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 884 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 299 reviews: 14.3h for positive, 7.6h 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 (35.3% 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 (28)
- First Blood Hunt your first whale 100%
- Circumnavigation Navigate 21.600 nautical miles 93%
- Commander Reach level 5 60%
- Instant Justice Kill an enemy just after he killed one of your men 58%
- Busy Bee Visit all the cities 54%
- Sea Of Blood Hunt 100 whales 54%
- First Trails Complete "Finding Rachel" quest 52%
- Money Maker Amass $10.000 47%
- Tracker Track back 10 lost ships 42%
- No Quarter Repel a pirate boarding 41%
- Big Hunt Kill a legendary creature 40%
- Quarantine Enter a city with 3 or more sick men in your crew 33%
- Captain Reach level 10 33%
- Check List Hunt every type of sea creature 32%
- Delivery Boy Complete 10 delivery quests 30%
- Haida Knowledge Complete "Blind secrets" quest 24%
- Learning Path Take a cabin boy up to level 10 19%
- Redemption Kill Moby Dick 18%
- Explorers' Legacy Complete all the side quests 18%
- Commodore Reach level 15 17%
- Full Optional Level all the ship compartments up to their maximum 14%
- Builder Create 5 safe docks 9.6%
- Admiral Reach level 20 8.8%
- Master Of Migrations Discover all the whaling areas and routes 7.9%
- By any means Sabotage another captain and make him fail a job 7.6%
- Love Boat Have at least 5 crew members with the "Sodomite" trait on your ship 5.7%
- Master of the Seven Seas Win a challenge mode game of any length 2.0%
- A life at sea Complete a 50 years long challenge mode game 1.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.