Sea of Thieves PS5 - The Re-Review

Historically, Sea of Thieves and I go way back. I played a few hundred hours of Sea of Thieves up until when the Pirates of the Caribbean update came out. I quit because I felt like 80% of what I did was a waste of time. I did soldier through, mostly because I played the game with my family. Unfortunately, after we had to cut a lengthy adventure short for the Pirates of the Caribbean story and lost a few hours of progress, we all hung it up, and I uninstalled the game.

I’m back in the vast ocean of Sea of Thieves, eager to see what’s changed. Has Sea of Thieves rectified the issues that kept me from enjoying it those years ago, or is it finally a pirate’s life for me? I'm especially happy now that I can actually play the game on my PS5. I have some nicer PS5 controllers and headsets, so I’m a happy camper.

The first thing the PS5 version of Sea of Thieves does is make you link up your Microsoft account. As a long-time equal-opportunity player of games, this was a wild thing to do on a PlayStation console. It was easy to set up, but while it keeps warning you that you can only do this once, it made me do it three times when I relaunched the game.

Thankfully, once that was set up, I was surprised to see the pirate I had played Sea of Thieves with years ago looking back at me. Yeah, Sea of Thieves on PS5 is both crossplay and cross-platform. Let me say that again for those in the stern of the boat. Yes, you can play with friends on any system, and the progress the game has will carry over to those platforms as well—well, mostly.

What is an Xbox/PS5 cross-platform agreement without a little Sony salt? I spent a lot of time playing Sea of Thieves over the years, and on those adventures, I earned and purchased a few cosmetics. While playing on PlayStation, I did notice that my Xbox-themed cosmetics were oddly missing. No, I couldn’t sail the Sea of Thieves with my OG Xbox-themed ship or use the Kameo or Saberwulf cosmetics. New players won’t know they are missing a thing,