Shared-world multiplayer action-adventure game developed by Rare, built around exploration, sailing, co-operation and encounters between pirate crews.
The classic Sea of Thieves story usually begins with a plan that went wrong. Custom Seas introduces the opposite possibility: decide in advance how many pirates will appear, where they will fight, who will referee the chaos and where the camera should be when everything explodes.
Rare created one of gaming's most convincing pirate fantasies by refusing to narrate every important moment for the player. It provides a place, a set of readable rules and strangers who cannot be controlled. The beautiful sea, physical comedy, music, Tall Tales and years of added content now give the setting far more substance than it had in 2018. Not every mechanic is equally refined, particularly combat on foot, but Sea of Thieves still achieves something rare for a long-running service game: an evening can produce a story nobody else experienced in quite the same way.
