Mostly Positive(72%)
Huge expansion
Underwater exploration
Building and businesses
Strong value
Vast, sparse ocean
Shallow ship combat
Uneven story quests
Rapid hotfixes
Progress-blocking bugs
Ship controls
Crew chatter
Performance issues
Overall, players are impressed by the expansion’s scale, variety, and value, especially its ocean exploration, underwater environments, and new management systems. However, the launch has been marred by progress-blocking bugs, crashes, and performance issues, alongside awkward ship controls and repetitive crew chatter. The huge map and ambitious features are exciting but sometimes feel shallow or underfilled, and while rapid patches have helped some players, many recommend waiting until the remaining issues are fixed.
Positive Points
Many players praise the expansion’s sheer size and value, describing the enlarged world and added activities as enough content to feel like a second game and provide dozens or even hundreds of hours.Ocean and underwater exploration are frequently highlights: players enjoy sailing, diving, discovering shipwrecks and islands, encountering sea life, and taking in the scale and atmosphere of the new regions.The DLC adds a broad range of systems that fans enjoy, including ship customization and combat, property management, businesses, house and castle building, romance, new equipment, and activities for the camp.Players often compliment the visuals and soundtrack, especially the ocean environments, underwater lighting, sea life, and music heard while sailing.Many reviewers feel the price is worthwhile for players who already enjoy the base game, and several praise Pearl Abyss for releasing frequent hotfixes and responding to feedback.Negative Points
A large number of reviews report serious launch bugs, including crashes, broken visuals, lost items or animals, malfunctioning systems, and quests that fail or become stuck. Some players say these issues prevent progress or make the game unplayable.Ship handling is a major frustration: steering can reverse based on camera position, controls feel awkward during combat, and many players complain that the wind often works against them and makes travel slow.Crew members repeatedly cycle through a small set of voice lines while sailing, often overlapping one another; players frequently ask for an option to silence them.Some players find the new quests tedious, repetitive, or poorly paced, citing forced fishing, long errands, confusing desert sections, and requirements that lock features behind substantial busywork.Several reviewers say the ocean and islands are beautiful but too empty, with limited discoveries, weak rewards, or shallow naval combat and business systems relative to the map’s scale.Some PC players report performance drops, stuttering, crashes, or visual problems after the update, with AMD graphics cards mentioned particularly often; other players report that patches or workarounds resolved their problems.Mixed Points
The expansion’s enormous map and ocean are a major draw, but some players feel the islands and open water do not contain enough points of interest to make that scale consistently rewarding.Sailing and ship combat can be enjoyable and atmospheric, but unreliable steering, frustrating wind behavior, and limited combat depth undermine the experience for many reviewers.The DLC offers many new activities and systems, yet some players find that parts of property management, trading, and exploration amount to repetitive chores rather than deep gameplay.Opinions on the new character stories vary: some appreciate the added characterization and cutscenes, while others consider the quests rushed, dull, or padded with errands.Many players appreciate the developers’ rapid hotfixes, and some report that specific problems were fixed quickly; others feel the DLC should not have launched with bugs that blocked progress or caused crashes.Common Themes
The DLC substantially expands an already large game, and its volume of new content and perceived value are among its most consistently praised qualities.Exploration is central to the expansion, particularly sailing across the ocean and diving into underwater areas, though reviewers disagree on whether the new regions have enough to discover.The ambitious new features arrive alongside uneven execution: bugs, performance problems, awkward controls, and thin or repetitive activities recur throughout the negative feedback.Players who enjoy the base game are generally more enthusiastic about the expansion’s added systems, while many dissatisfied reviewers recommend waiting for fixes or a sale.Frequent patches and Pearl Abyss’s response to feedback are widely noticed, but they do not erase the frustration of players who encountered broken progression or lost access to content.Updated 11/4/2026, 12:01:28 AM UTC
