Metacritic user reviews for Skull and Bones are open to “generally unfavorable” scores.

Despite claims of it being a “quadruple A” live service experience, Skull and Bones user Metacritic score has taken a hit since the pirate ship game's release on Friday, February 16.

Based on 222 user scores recorded so far, Skull and Bones' user score is just 2.8 out of 10, making it the lowest-rated game of 2024 released so far when sorted by User points alone.

Complaints are mainly focused on “Disappointing and lackluster“the game,”Poor design“The end of the game, and he pretends it is.”boring“, with many players comparing it unfavorably to Sea of ​​​​Thieves and even Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, which is now 11 years old.

“Where's the other half of the game? 10 years of development and we got a downgrade [Assassin’s] Creed game. amazing,” He said One unhappy player.

But it's not all bad; 18% of players dropped a positive review, with one comment saying: “Thank you Ubisoft for this amazing AAAA title, I really love it, Chef's Kiss. ​​I can't wait to see what this genius mastermind comes up with next for the company!!!”

The critic score is slightly better and currently sits at an average of 64 out of a possible 100 points across all platforms.

Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot recently described Skull and Bones as a “quadruple A” live-service pirate ship game.

While discussing the long-awaited project with investors earlier this week, Guillemot justified the £70 live service game's launch as a fully-configured experience that's also supported by a battle pass, premium, and in-game currency. Shop.

“You'll see that Skull and Bones is a complete game,” Guillemot said at the time. “It's a very big game and we feel like people will really see how broad and complete this game is. So it's a complete top-four game that will deliver results in the long run.”