Skip to main content

Join us as we live-stream our ‘Sea of Thieves’ adventures

Sea of Thieves is now available on Xbox One and PC, and the Digital Trends team has been playing a ton of it this week. We want to share our pirating skills with you, so we’ll be Facebook live-streaming the game at 6 p.m. ET today!

Join accomplished sailors Hanif JacksonPhil Hornshaw, Will Fulton, and Gabe Gurwin as we venture out into the sea and explore what Rare’s latest game has to offer. We’ll undoubtedly run into some enemy ships along the way and panic as we work together to fire our cannons and escape unharmed, and if you have the game at home, you might even run into us.

Sea of Thieves isn’t a story-focused open-world game with a “critical path” of the type we see from companies like Ubisoft or Warner Bros. Instead, you enter the game with very little direction, and it’s up to you to discover the various factions and “voyages” located at each outpost. As you explore the surrounding islands, you’ll find special messages in bottles and buried treasure that you can spend to unlock better-looking gear, and voyages will even match you up against supernatural skeletons.

Much of the fun in Sea of Thieves comes from other players, however, and we expect this will be the case during our stream today. Should we manage to sink an enemy ship, we’ll be given access to all of its supplies, bolstering our own reserves of cannonballs to unleash on the next enemy ship.

Even if you haven’t acquired much money or raised your faction reputation very high in Sea of Thieves, it’s still worth trying to find us in the game. All equipment only offers cosmetic changes, so the ships sailing the sea are essentially all equal. The crew, however, is what truly makes the ship, and we’ve run into some truly incompetent crews thus far.

Sea of Thieves is available now as part of the Xbox Play Anywhere program, giving digital purchasers a copy for both the Xbox One and the PC. It’s also included for free as part of the Xbox Game Pass service, along with all upcoming first-party Xbox exclusives.

Editors' Recommendations

Gabe Gurwin
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Gabe Gurwin has been playing games since 1997, beginning with the N64 and the Super Nintendo. He began his journalism career…
The most common Sea of Thieves problems and how to fix them
Sea Of Thieves Hands-on Preview | First person helm of ship

Microsoft and Rare launched online pirate adventure game Sea of Thieves on March 20, and players around the world have started exploring its vast waters and blowing each other up with their ships’ cannons.

When everything is working as intended, Sea of Thieves can be an exhilarating adventure, but players have reported a number of technical issues and bugs, which can sometimes keep us from finding as much fun as we'd like. We compiled a list of the most common problems players have reported, as well as how to fix them.
Connection issues
While Sea of Thieves depends on online group-ups, sometimes the digital waves get a little choppy.  Upon loading into the Sea of Thieves main menu, you might see a message such as “KiwiBeard, “Greybeard,” or “DaffodilBeard,” among other facial hair-themed errors. The majority of these are error messages related to the game’s servers rather than a problem with your system or your own internet connection.

Read more
How to fish in Sea of Thieves
sea of thieves how to fish fishing sot  1

When you don't feel like marauding or digging for treasure in Sea of Thieves, alternative options abound. You can cook a steak, pick an instrument and play a tune with the crew, get drunk on grog...or fish. And since fishing is a combination between casual, relaxing play and the ability to get rewards, it's a pretty popular pastime!

We suggest giving fishing a try in Sea of Thieves when you're waiting for friends to join a server who really want to stock up on specific healing food or items. Here's everything you need to know to get going.

Read more
Everything we know about Sea of Thieves cross-platform support
is sea of thieves cross platform featured

Sea of Thieves is a game that really only works with a group of friends. Rare's live-service pirate simulator is one of the best co-op games available today, allowing you to put together a swashbuckling crew to take to the high seas, raid rival ships, and hunt for treasure. Thankfully, you don't need to be on the same system to put together such a crew. Here's everything you need to know about Sea of Thieves cross-platform support.

More Sea of Thieves

Read more