{"id":273430,"date":"2024-02-19T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=326516"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:03:02","slug":"we-already-have-the-reviews-for-skull-and-bones-has-it-been-the-expected-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/we-already-have-the-reviews-for-skull-and-bones-has-it-been-the-expected-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"We already have the reviews for Skull and Bones: Has it been the expected failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The piracy simulator from Ubisoft, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/why-is-skull-and-bones-not-free-to-play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Skull and Bones was released on February 16\">Skull and Bones, was released on February 16<\/a>. However, despite promising a lot of features in the lead-up to the launch, <strong>it seems that the high-seas adventure game has crashed against the rocks when it comes to user reviews.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Skull and Bones\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/a4152282-bf63-4613-9919-17c50433844e\/2245426911\/skull-and-bones-game-card-skullbones.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Skull and Bones<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/skull-and-bones.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/skull-and-bones.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, <strong>Skull and Bones has an average score of 31 on Metacritic, based on over 300 user reviews <\/strong>at the time of writing this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of these comments<strong> make unfavorable comparisons with Assassin&#8217;s Creed 4: Black Flag<\/strong>. Released in 2013, Black Flag put you in the shoes of Welsh pirate Edward Kenway and involved a lot of sword fighting, naval battles, and stealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the contrary, <strong>Skull and Bones focuses more on naval battles<\/strong>, as players send their sailors to board enemy ships in a short cinematic instead of engaging in melee combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Skull and Bones: Launch Trailer\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OmDYo7MbQxo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Negative reviews focus on pacing issues and a limited game design approach. <\/strong>&#8220;Painfully slow and boring,&#8221; explains one user, while another complained, &#8220;It&#8217;s worse than it looks. There&#8217;s no ship boarding, no swimming, naval battles are all the same. It has no ending.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The 12 professional reviews on Metacritic at the time of writing this article are more favorable, with an average of 64<\/strong>, which the site classifies as &#8220;mixed&#8221;. These reviews are slightly more favorable than those of the users: PC Gamer, our affiliated website, states: &#8220;Skull and Bones, which combines a brooding and rewarding ship combat with a superficial live service, is great within the claustrophobic parameters allowed by market forces&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Skull and Bones\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/a4152282-bf63-4613-9919-17c50433844e\/2245426911\/skull-and-bones-game-card-skullbones.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Skull and Bones<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/skull-and-bones.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/skull-and-bones.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/ubisoft-gives-us-bad-news-again-delays-more-projects-and-skull-and-bones-is-still-missing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Skull and Bones had a notoriously problematic development, having received multiple delays since its announcement in 2017\">Skull and Bones had a notoriously problematic development, having received multiple delays since its announcement in 2017<\/a>. Since then, the game has undergone numerous changes, with revisions to its setting, branding, and scope of its gameplay mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The pirate and navigation game is currently available on PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and PC<\/strong> through the Ubisoft store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negative reviews focus on pacing issues and a limited focus on game design. &#8220;Painfully slow and boring,&#8221; explains one user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9265,"featured_media":273431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1018,1015],"tags":[1076],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-273430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-news","tag-ubisoft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314752,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273430\/revisions\/314752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273430"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=273430"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=273430"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=273430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}