Sea of Thieves

Release date: March 20, 2018
Genre: Action-adventure game
Platforms: Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
Developer: Rare
Sea of Thieves is a pirate-themed action-adventure cooperative multiplayer game played from a first-person perspective. A group of players travel and explore an open world via a pirate ship and assume different roles such as steering, hoisting sails, navigation, firing cannons and other tasks. Players will embark on quests, collect loot and engage in combat with other players. Sea of Thieves is a shared world game, which means groups of players will encounter each other regularly throughout their adventures. The game has a cartoonish art style and an exaggerated physics engine that allow players to perform stunts, like being shot out of ship cannons.
 
Few games spark a sense of team accomplishment quite like Sea of Thieves, even with the beta’s limited content. This is One of the best examples is the ship mechanics, which require a team effort simply to keep moving. Getting from point to point rewards strong cooperation, through the management of steering, sails, navigation, combat and various other tasks. Maintaining a consistent team dynamic is key, especially during its tensest moments. While exploring encounter often requiring multiple roles to be filled by a group.