10 Reasons Why Sea Of Thieves Deserves A Second Chance

From completing Tall Tales, taking on voyages for your favourite companies, or testing your metal by contesting a skull fort or fleet, there’s plenty of exciting challenges to keep crews busy for dozens of hours. While these objectives are enticing in themselves, the real joy of playing Sea Of Thieves comes from the moment-to-moment emergent gameplay that ensure that no session is ever the same.

Thanks to inhabiting the world with any number of equally gold-hungry pirates, you never know when a ship will appear over the horizon or surprise you from behind an island. More crucially, though, it’s impossible to tell how much of a threat they could be to your pile of spoils. Spotting a ship speeding towards your stationary one after opening a fort's vault will likely escalate into a tense winner-takes-all skirmish. If you don’t have enough wood and cannonballs, sneaking aboard their ship with a gunpowder keg could be your only viable option.

Even if you escape with the loot, your ordeal isn’t over yet. A surprise attack from a megalodon, skeleton ship, kraken, or another player could still send your ship to the ocean floor.

Surviving all of that makes the reward all the more sweeter.