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Set sail into the vibrant open world of Skull and Bones, a naval online action RPG where you rise to become the most fearsome pirate kingpin. Customize your fleet, craft unique ships, and forge formidable weapons to dominate in exhilarating sea battles.
Skull and Bones is a pirates, action and naval combat game
developed by Ubisoft Singapore
and published by Ubisoft.
Released on August 22nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 14 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Italian and Polish.
It has received 1,704 reviews of which 1,156 were positive and 548 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Skull and Bones into these genres:
System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel i7 4790 AMD Ryzen5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500 8GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 65 GB available space
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"Would you recommend this game to other players?" Hmm. . . Well. . . You see. . . Let me start like this: This game can very well work for you (it did for me) BUT Only if certain conditions are met. First of all: This game is not AAAA. It's barely even AAA. This game is ONLY worth it on sale. Get it for 25€ or something and you are good. Condition 1: You love arcade like ship combat and DON'T care that there's no hand to hand melee swordfighting Condition 2: You love customisation, be it cosmetic or build-crafting Condition 3: You love PVE / Coop and DON'T care for PVP (there is opt-in PVP in the game, but noone takes part in it. The community is 90% PVE) Condition 4 (the big one): You love the above mentioned 3 things enough, to be able to excuse the little amount of content that exists in this game and find enjoyment in doing the same activities over and over again. If you don't enjoy the gameplay loop during your first 2 hours of playtime, go and refund! The rest of the game is pretty much the same, just with bigger ships, tougher enemies and longer grinds. Yes, there are more things that spice up the gameplay loop that you might enjoy down the line after 30 - 40hrs, but I wouldn't bet on it if you're already bored / annoyed with the first 2 hrs of gameplay (except story. The story is terrible and you have to sit through that one. I recommend spam skipping every dialogue). also: This is a live service game with the option to spend real life money ingame (shocker, right??). The things you can buy are almost exclusively cosmetics. There are some time limited events (that usually repeat every few months) that allow you to get parts of these paid cosmetic sets by just playing the game and doing event missions (these paid sets also get cheaper with every part you collect). I say " parts " since I never was able to get a full paid set by just playing (drops magically stop when there are only ~2 parts left). Maybe it's possible, maybe not. I'm now sitting at 211 hrs and concluded for myself, that it is not. I also don't want you to think that cosmetics are just paid: there are a lot more cosmetics you get by just playing the game. Absolutely no need to pay for looks. The other thing you can spend money on is the smuggler pass ( yaaaaay another battle pass; look at us quirky pirates; it's called smuggler pass instead of battle pass! give us money now ). In essence, it's just early and guaranteed access to ships and equipment, that will otherwise be obtainable by just playing the game after the season ends. Granted, "[I]obtainable " in the most soul crushing grind this game has to offer: You need 4 cannons to fully equip your ship: bow, stern, starboard and port. 1 cannon costs ~800 boss currency (obtained by killing the seasonal boss). 800 x 4 = 3200. Killing the boss gives ~50 currency (more often less). Have fun doing the same boss 64 times before the shop rotates next week. And there's a lot more to obtain than just the 4 cannons... As you can see, there are most definitely quite a few things standing in the way of enjoying this game. I came up with the above mentioned 4 conditions, by asking myself: "why do you even play this game?" . So, if you are reading this (way too long) review and at any point, where I mentioned something negative, thought: "that sounds bad, but I really want to sail around in my customised ship and do bosses with my friends in coop" this game is for you.
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Not good, but not terrible. Your typical Ubisoft schlop. Game loop is fine. Get it on sale and ignore the cash shop. Otherwise, play Sea of Thieves.
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A surprisingly fun yet very flawed game. It's clear that the developers weren't really sure what they wanted to make for a while, so it has remnants of an attempt at a survival game (but they've been mostly sanded off, thanfully). The naval combat reminds me of Black Flag, but it has slightly more depth to it (as most modern open world games do, it has a bunch of "RPG-lite" features, though in this case I don't think they detract from the experience) There's PvP and it seems like at some point it was considered a major part of the game, but I don't really like to PvP nowadays cause I'm old and grumpy, so I haven't really engaged with it. Thankfully there's also a lot of PvE stuff to do, between just going around attacking AI controlled vessels to plundering settlements, or doing quests and some light empire building. Overall, it's closer to Sid Meier's Pirates! than any other comparisons that would come to mind. It has a lot of modern junk like a battlepass, seasonal events that are timegated and stuff like that, but the core of the game is definitely inspired by Pirates! (and it reminds me of the sad fact that we haven't actually had a new Pirates! game in 20 years) Performance-wise, it runs surprisingly well, though it doesn't really look super amazing (it doesn't look terrible either, just middle of the pack, really). For full price I'd say it's not really the best purchase you could make, but at 60% off, it's a pretty fun timewaster if you are into Age of Sail ships and don't mind fantastical elements and weird anachronisms.
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Whoever was in charge of advertising this game is bad at their job and fits right in at Ubisoft. Shoot ships to loot them. Shoot towns to loot them. Go to a town to sell your loot. And than shoot them to loot them. Quests are kind enough to tell you where to find ships that carry items you need, and honestly the trade route system in this game is pretty fun. Want a certain type of resource; just sail its trade route and plunder away. Or follow it all the way to its source town, and plunder it from there. Or both. You're a Pirate, if the random crowd of people who go from making fun of you to cheering your name after 2 minutes are to be believed. The problem is they put a lot of (needless) effort into also making it look good, thus the bloated price tag. The pure gameplay loop itself I would pay $30 for now adays, which is the price I would happily pay for a good high quality indie game in this day and age. I expect a AAA A game to offer more for its value than just graphics. We're past the point where that is appealing unless you're a sports game fan.
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Kingdom Hearts 3 naval combat without the Disney magic Sea of Thieves without the first-person experience or immersive ship management or physically carrying chests on your ship or the Disney magic Pirates of the Caribbean Online (shut down years ago) without the classic MMO experience or MMO character level stats/level progression Pirates 101 without the turn-based tactics or episodic cinematics or goofiness or coherent(?) storyline or British magic (there's still British people but they're all enemies in Skull and Bones) War Thunder without the realism or immersive combat or intense team-based warfare or match-based queues or team-based objectives or year-long (in real life) waits to progress to the next vehicle tier World of Warships without the tedium or silly combat style (Skull and Bones is silly in a different way) Got the game for $24 Looks like a $40-60 game (graphics-wise) Plays like a 15 robux roblox game Feels like a free MMO game
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Frequently Asked Questions
Skull and Bones is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
Skull and Bones is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Skull and Bones received 1,156 positive votes out of a total of 1,704 achieving a rating of 6.59.
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Skull and Bones was developed by Ubisoft Singapore and published by Ubisoft.
Skull and Bones is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Skull and Bones is not playable on MacOS.
Skull and Bones is not playable on Linux.
Skull and Bones offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Skull and Bones offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 3 DLCs available for Skull and Bones. Explore additional content available for Skull and Bones on Steam.
Skull and Bones does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Skull and Bones does not support Steam Remote Play.
Skull and Bones does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
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Game modes
Multiplayer
Online players
181
Developer
Ubisoft Singapore
Publisher
Ubisoft
Release
22 Aug 2024
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