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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
279 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
56
Mixed
102 positive · 79 negative
95% range 49–63%
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| Steam reviews | 102 | 79 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
98 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,810 of 2,625 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 279 · 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.
unlabelledView 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" 😎
unlabelledView 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!
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →Intergalactic - The Heretic Prophet (upcoming sci-fi game): Porsche 984 Tempest NDX
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →Acidjazzed Evening cover/study! (WIP) original author: Janne "Tempest" Sunni chip: Game Boy APU #chiptune
unlabelledView 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.)
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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...
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView 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.
unlabelledView post →The bar here has my favorite arcade game Tempest. so playing while waiting for pizza delivery. #fc2026
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →close enough, welcome back command and conquer (game is Tempest: Rising)
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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!
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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 :)
unlabelledView 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)
unlabelledView post →Tempest Shadow wearing N7 Armor from my favorite game Mass Effect done done again by @theabbeyroadie.bsky.social love it
unlabelledView 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*.
unlabelledView post →I don't usually "get" 80s games but Tempest is the exception, that game rules
unlabelledView 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 🙏🙏
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →Tempest was my game too. I had the high score in my local arcade! Briefly!
unlabelledView 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...
unlabelledView post →The man got visions of the game Tempest beamed to his brain from the fewchurr.
unlabelledView 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 😂
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →The otome game “Even if TEMPEST” is getting a Steam port!
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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!🏆
unlabelledView 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 ⚔️🩸
unlabelledView 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!!
unlabelledView post →The dark fantasy otome game “even if TEMPEST” is getting a Steam port on September 24th! 🥳
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →This baseball game is now officially longer than Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and approaching Tempest.
unlabelledView post →If you gaze for long into the arcade game Tempest, Tempest gazes also into you.
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView 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
unlabelledView post →The Seattle Tempest, the 2026 Western Ultimate League Champions, are at tonight’s Storm game! #SeattleStorm #SeattleTempest #SeattleSports
unlabelledView post →Totally awesome game, but losing all of my enchanted items on captain defeat even though you win the battle is absolute lunacy, a horrible idea and its earning this game a thumbs down.
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