Sea of Thieves Standard Edition - Xbox One, Xbox Series X

SOT is a fun pirate simulator if you want to take to the seas and search for buried treasure. It's best played with others as manning a ship is easier with crew members (you have the option of sailing alone or friends or open). Also, considering that this game is particularly about sailing ( SEA of Thieves) it helps to have people to talk to and goof off with as you crash through waves. Constantly updated and with problems often quickly addressed, SOT just might be one of the greatest time passers of all time. It's not for everyone, but it's different than most games out today. Be warned... pirates are pirates... and your hard earned treasure is never safe til you've delivered it to port.... oh and sharks bite....

This game is fun but if you encounter another crew, you will 9 times out of 10 end up fighting them. Having a full crew of 4 only ups you chances of doing this. You can partner with randoms or have awesome friends.

Love Sea of Thieves. Best Buy shouldn't advertise that you get a free souvenir coin if they aren't going to honor that. It's still on their website. Not worth paying higher price and no coin.

This is not for the game but for the shipping. The game arrived but the cased was shredded to pieces and now i have nowhere to keep the disc if i need to store it.

Your adventure on the high sea awaits. Sword Fighting... Check. Treasure hunting...Check Ships rolling over the waves... Check Danger from other pirates, monsters and storms wanting to take your life and your treasure.... Check, check and triple check. Sea of Thieves is very cool. This game successfully puts together a play set of muskets, swords, ships and pirate outfits that allow you to lose yourself in the game and become a pirate. It's set in an open world you share with everyone else playing the game. All of you going after various treasures or skeleton crews at the same time. Also you can at any time choose to go and fight any of the other human players in the game. This can at times be terrifying when you realize that you can't not play with other humans. At any moment the player in that ship that you see on the horizon might decide to see if you have any treasure on your ship and come after you. And there isn't anything to stop them. Except your own musket, sword and skill you gain while sailing the seas. This has led to multiple situations in my own game where I've had to fight off another player or two to keep them from getting a treasure chest I had just dug up. The best advice I can give you is to realize that while the pirate you are having to fight might have a super cool hat, peg leg, and a hook with tattoos and a sweet looking sword, he/she actually isn't any more powerful than you are. All of the "upgrades" you can buy for your ship or pirate are only cosmetic. This means that the one guaranteed advantage one ship has over another is the number of crew. Your crew can consist of up to 4 pirates working together. It supports a closed crew where just friends can be on the same ship or you can join a crew of random pirates. I've enjoyed playing with my kids. So we take the smaller ship and there is usually just the two of us. If you choose to do the random assignment the community has generally been great. Lots of people have been very helpful and talkative while sailing. I can't say that I've made any life long friends yet but I don't encourage people trying to do that on the internet. Ultimately this always online structure and being thrust into a world and forced to interact with other humans will be the appeal or repelling force for this game. Much like playing dress up and imaging to be a pirate growing up, you are only going to get out of this game as much as you put into. There is almost zero narrative to be found in this game. As the point of this game is to do pirate stuff. So if a compelling story is what you come to games for I would certainly encourage you to pass this game. The journey is the point. Hopefully this helps anyone on the fence about this game, and if you think you'll be getting the game.... Well I'll see you on the high seas. Best of luck and remember to put the kegs of black powder in the crows nest. That way if it explodes it won't damage your ship.

for an XBOX newb, this looks to be pretty fun, once you get the hang of it and can automatically select the different controls. If you are playing solo, you need to be able to multi-task continually. If you play co-op, this is only co-op online and you MUST have a headset to communicate what is, and needs to be done. There is no real tutorial on what you should be doing or where you are going. Best to watch some YouTube walkthroughs, bother before and after you purchase the game. I'm withholding a fifth star as I'm not sure I like the trolls that keep interrupting your game online.

This game gives you a sandbox environment to have some great pirating adventures if you give it a chance, but it is not for gamers who need a very structured gaming environment all the time. The best description I have read and can provide is SoT is like being given a toy pirate as a kid, and you played with this toy pirate by creating by acting adventures either alone or with friends. You loved playing with this toy pirate, and only wished there was some way to make the adventures more real. That's what SoT CAN be if you let it. It provides an interactive play field where multiple "kids" get to play out this pirate fantasy in the same place with others doing the same thing simultaneously. For those who have realized this potential, SoT can be amazing. However, if you are someone who needs to have your game completely defined for you, telling you what to do all the time and have little interest in this type of sand box adventuring, this game will probably not make you happy. Word of warning even if you think you are ready to make SoT your personal adventure gaming environment... currently there are a very limited actual pre-created adventures provided in the game, and most of these basically require you to do similar things. You will be required to complete an egregious quantity of repetitive fetch quests that has ever been required in ANY video game to gain the sweet bounty needed to make your pirate the envy of the seas. If Rare does not keep adding some form of content to the game it will risk losing its fanbase quickly. Read reviews and forums before you buy the the game to make sure you understand what it is and what it isn't before you put your coin on the table to purchase the game. If you go in with a full understanding of what you will find in SoT, you mught just have some of the best gaming adventures you have ever had.

I got this game to play with some friends who were extremely interested in it. It's fun to play with them some, but the reviews about lack of content and end game aren't too far off. It's definitely a grind to get enough treasure to pay for anything interesting, and even then I believe anything you can buy is simply cosmetic. But if you play it to find buried treasure, kill skeletons and plunder other people's treasure while enjoying time with your friends, it's not a bad way to pass the time.