Sea of Thieves Season 5, the Sunken Kingdom, cross platform, Twitch drops and updates

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Rare's sandbox multiplayer pirate adventure, Sea of Thieves, has come a long way. Since first hitting Xbox One and PC in March 2018, the developer has been working on a host of post-launch patches and free DLC – with more staff working on the title now than in the run-up to its original release. 

The seafaring title continues to attract more players by offering continual improvements and additional content to the game's community, such as the game's recent Seasons that include 100 tiers of rewards for players to earn. 

According to Rare, within the game's first year, Sea of Thieves players collected and cashed in almost 750 million chests, skulls and items of cargo to amass a collective fortune of 642 billion gold. That number will have increased exponentially since, then, as the game has passed its third anniversary and has now amassed 20 million players since launch.

As of December 2021, we've now reached Sea of Thieves' fifth season but as an open-ended online service game, there's plenty more to come. To help you keep on top of what's new and what's coming up, we've put together this handy page which will be updated with all the latest announcements.

The latest Sea of Thieves update is Season Five. You can see the full trailer below, but this newest upgrade will bring lots of new events, seasonal rewards, items, interactions and the ability to bury your own treasure!

Season Five has been available since December 2021 and it’s free for all players with Xbox Game Pass and across Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam.

Sea of Thieves has received a Pirates of the Caribbean crossover, which became available on June 22 for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox One and PC. The game is available to download