🏴‍☠️Sea of Thieves

Crew a pirate ship with friends, get robbed by larger friends.

8.9 / 10

1–4 players

💥Chaos💼Extraction

Players

1–4

Released

Jun 3, 2020

Developer

Rare Ltd · Xbox Game Studios

Price

$39.99

Multi-playerCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller Support

Shared-world pirate sandbox. A four-player galleon is a full-time job: helm, sails, cannons, bailing water. Emergent stories every session.

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Quickstart

How to actually play this with friends — written by Claude.

## Set it up - Install via Steam (Microsoft account link required); pick Adventure mode for story content or sail straight into the open world - Crew up to four on a galleon and assign roles before you leave port: one on the helm, one on sails, one below deck watching for leaks - No mods, no cap-raising options — vanilla four is a hard ceiling, so plan your friend group around it

## Your first session - Take the sloop (2-player) or galleon (4-player) out for a short voyage first; learn sail trim and cannon reloads before anything's chasing you - Grab a Voyage from any outpost table and just follow the map — treasure hunts are the easiest way to learn the sandbox - Assign a dedicated bailer the moment you take cannon fire; a flooding hold sinks a ship faster than most new crews expect

## Group size advice - Four is the whole design — a galleon genuinely needs four hands to run well, especially once other ships get involved - Two players on a sloop is lean, efficient, and still plenty chaotic - Every session is shared-world PvP risk, so a full crew matters more here than in most co-op picks