Best pirate-themed video games, ranked

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Unless you count most of the movies in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series, every pirate-themed movie made after the 1960s has brought nothing but financial ruin to Hollywood. Cutthroat Island? It sunk an entire studio.  Disney’s Treasure Planet and Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas? Many credit them for having killed traditional 2D animation altogether. Hardly the crime any movie pirate would like to be remembered for.

Luckily, pirates have thrived in the world of gaming — in more ways than one — you could say. Over the course of its entire history, gaming has featured a wide variety of pirate-themed games. There’s no lack of offers, variety, and quality, so let’s find out which one is the best of them all.

GreedFall is the pirate game for Witcher fans. It’s an action RPG developed by Spiders — the studio, not the creatures. It takes place in a world of piracy that’s also home to a hell of a lot of elements that we just have to assume weren’t present in historically-accurate pirate times.

While players shouldn’t expect great sea battles, GreedFall features great fantasy worldbuilding that includes monsters, a mysterious plague ravaging the populace, and decision-making that will impact our journey.

Players can approach the game in a variety of ways. There’s diplomacy, stealth, and even the “pirate manner.” The gameplay is far from perfect, and definitely not as overtly pirate-y as the other entries on the list, but GreedFall’s world features a beautiful “pirate” aesthetic and provides a strange allure that one just can’t deny.

In theory, Blackwake is a very simple game. You command a pirate ship and try to board other ships while avoiding boarding attempts from rival crews.

Whether they’re using a canon, rifle, or