An open Caribbean sea, a ship to upgrade, a crew to hire, and a promise bigger than the game.

And the verdict is blunt. On the gut pick, no criterion, Pirates of the Caribbean only edges past 3% of games. Rock bottom. The rest of the profile follows the same line, with no standout exception: attachment ahead of 9% of titles, rediscovery 18%, art style 14% on just two votes so treat it as unconfirmed, soundtrack 15%. Controller feel does not help, ahead of 22% of games. The one line that breathes a little is fun, in the lower middle. In other words: you can sink hours into it, you just do not tell anyone.

The open-world pirate RPG remains a rare genre, and this one came from a Sea Dogs project hastily rebranded into a Disney licence. That mismatch still shows today, next to what the genre has produced since.

So, who is it for? For you if you love rough naval sims, trading, boarding, raw freedom at the cost of comfort. Much less so if you expect the swashbuckling adventure the title seems to promise.