History VideoGame / SeaOfThieves

-->--'''Ramsey Singh''', The Pirate Lord

--->'''Jack Sparrow''': How can you know all this? [[spoiler:That pendant-]]
--->[[spoiler: '''The Castaway''': [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Belongs to me.]]]]

* PlayerVersusPlayer: It's the Sea of Thieves - that means ''you''. PvP is fully enabled at all times in the High Seas game mode, both between individual pirates and their boats. If you're sailing with a bounty of treasure on deck, be prepared to fight off other crews who aren't afraid to sink you for it. Further encouraged by the Reaper's Bones faction, which offers the highest gold payouts when selling treasure to them but offers no voyages - incentivizing Reaper's Bones emissaries to hunt down their fellow pirates and sell ''their'' loot instead. The ''Anniversary'' update also introduced a dedicated ''Arena'' mode pitting up to five crews against each other in a matchmade free-for-all battle. This Arena was later removed at the start of Season 6.

''Sea of Thieves'' is a FirstPerson WideOpenSandbox {{Pirate}} game made by Creator/{{Rare}} and published by Creator/XboxGameStudios. Originally exclusively for the Platform/XboxOne and Windows 10, it was later released on Platform/{{Steam}} and Platform/PlayStation5. This marks the first time since ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts And Bolts]]'' in 2008 that they have been the primary developer of a non-Kinect title.

** Tall tales have checkpoints for you to resume if you decide to quit them part way, or if you get attacked by other players.

* ApocalypticLog: In "The Legend of Monkey Island: The Quest for Gubrush", you can find diary entries detailing Elaine's experience with the warped Mêlée Island, and her escape.

** The Ashen Lords take the cake with this, boasting the most health of any skeleton. Fighting them is split into three phases, and they gain [[TurnsRed more powerful attacks as their health gets lower]]. Also, unlike regular Skeleton Lords, their thrown [[PlayingWithFire volcanic rocks]] can potentially sink your ship. Have fun.

* GlassCannon: The phantom ships associated with Captain Flameheart introduced in the Haunted Shores update. They are destroyed by three direct hits anywhere on the ship, making them easily the most fragile ships in the game. But they also feature special wraith cannonballs that blow multiple holes in your ship with one hit.

''Sea of Thieves'' is a FirstPerson WideOpenSandbox {{Pirate}} game made by Creator/{{Rare}} and published by Creator/XboxGameStudios exclusively for the Platform/XboxOne and Windows 10, and was later released on Platform/{{Steam}}. This marks the first time since ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts And Bolts]]'' in 2008 that they have been the primary developer of a non-Kinect title.

* FragileSpeedster: The Sloop. It's smaller and faster than the Galleon (see Mighty Glacier below), and is relatively simple to operate with its single mast. However, it also has the smallest crew size (1-2 players) and only two cannons, meaning that the ship is often horribly outgunned in most battles. A Sloop can destroy the larger ships, but it requires that the Sloop's crew take full advantage of its maneuverability and stay out of the other ships' lines of fire.

* GoldToothOfWealth: The Gold Hoarder has a golden ''jaw''. As a pirate, his success made him obscenely wealthy in the wider world, but his green drove him back into the Sea of Thieves until all that was left was a Skeleton Lord with a lust for gold. Also counts as VillainousGoldTooth because he's the ArcVillain for the Shores of Gold Tall Tale arc.

* NotTheIntendedUse: Straight with the cutlass, a pirate's melee weapon. Though it does its job well enough as a tool of combat, with its three-hit main attack and its slow, powerful lunge, players were quick to latch onto the latter's alternative application; as a tool of ''locomotion''. The game's physics allows for one to jump a split second before executing the lunge, which sends them soaring a fair distance forward. This has been used to move quickly from the shoreline to the ship, cross chasms that even a running jump could not, and even reach places that would be impossible.

* PlayerVersusPlayer: It's the Sea of Thieves - that means ''you''. PvP is fully enabled at all times in the High Seas game mode, both between individual pirates and their boats. If you're sailing with a bounty of treasure on deck, be prepared to fight off other crews who aren't afraid to sink you for it. Further encouraged by the Reaper's Bones faction, which offers the highest gold payouts when selling treasure to them but offers no voyages - incentivizing Reaper's Bones emissaries to hunt down their fellow pirates and sell ''their'' loot instead.The ''Anniversary'' update also introduced a dedicated ''Arena'' mode pitting up to five crews against each other in a matchmade free-for-all battle. This was later removed at the start of Season 6.

* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: Straight with the Bone Crusher gear set. Although broken up across several different events in the game's history, the full set consists of articles of clothing adorned with several preserved bones, from ribs on the brow of the hat to an ''entire spinal cord'' as a peg leg.

* TutorialFailure: Good luck figuring out the controls or even how to do the most basic things (eg. How to equip a weapon) without asking someone (that is, if you can even figure out how to bring up the text chat) or checking out a guide, because the game offers absolutely no help in that regard.

* AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage: The [[KrakenAndLeviathan Kraken]] consists of tentacles sticking out of the water, and there doesn't even seem to be a body.

** ''Athena's Fortune'' voyages feature two sets of crate deliveries, which would take the longest to complete, on top of having six other maps to retrieve treasure from. Thankfully, you only need to collect the crates, not deliver them, to progress the voyage, so you don't need to make any extra stops to get your shiny Chest of Legends.

On June 11, 2023, they announced a crossover with ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' as "The Legend of Monkey Island", bringing Guybrush Threepwood and Mêlée Island to the world. This expansion is planned to release in July.

''Sea of Thieves'' is a FirstPerson WideOpenSandbox {{Pirate}} game made by Creator/{{Rare}} and published by Creator/XboxGameStudios exclusively for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne and Windows 10, and was later released on Platform/{{Steam}}. This marks the first time since ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts And Bolts]]'' in 2008 that they have been the primary developer of a non-Kinect title.

''Sea of Thieves'' is a FirstPerson WideOpenSandbox {{Pirate}} game made by Creator/{{Rare}} and published by Creator/XboxGameStudios exclusively for the UsefulNotes/XboxOne and Windows 10, and was later released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. This marks the first time since ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts And Bolts]]'' in 2008 that they have been the primary developer of a non-Kinect title.

** Sir Arthur Pendragon is a reference to, well, yes, [[Myth/ArthurianLegend King Arthur]] but more specifically Ultimate Play The Game's Sir Arthur Pendragon series from the UsefulNotes/Commodore64; ''The Staff of Karnath'', ''Entombed'', ''Blackwyche'' and ''Dragon Skulle.''

* EasyModeMockery: Safer Seas, a new game mode allows you to take up to three friends in to the game. The easy mode? Since it is you and your friends on one ship PVP is a non issue. The Mockery? Everything else! Despite the damage and everything else other than the PVP being standard levels you cannot become a Pirate Legend and payouts for quests are reduced to 30% standard (so for example that 100 gold and fame quest you paid 60 gold to go in, is only worth 70 each if you are on Safe Seas)

* FetchQuest: A major criticism of the game at launch was the extreme repetitiveness of the quests, named "Voyages", given by the three available factions, and how they all essentially boiled down to "Go to this place, get this thing, and bring it back for some gold." This hasn't really changed much, there's just plenty of other things to do during the "go to" and "bring back" phases to make the whole process less mind-bogglingly tedious.

* PlayerVersusPlayer: Pirate crews having to fight each other as well as natural hazards for that glorious treasure. The ''Anniversary'' update also introduced the ''Arena'' mode that is largely focused on this playstyle.

** Sir Arthur Pendragon is a reference to, well, yes, [[Myth/ArthurianLegend King Arthur]] but more specifically Ultimate Play The Game's Arthur Pendragon series from the UsefulNotes/Commodore64; ''The Staff of Karnath'', ''Entombed'', ''Blackwyche'' and ''Dragon Skulle.''

** The reward for all this? A sickly-green skull fraught with GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath as an equippable lantern.