Sea of Thieves hoists the sail on swashbuckling pirate adventures with your friends

Sea of Thieves looks like the ultimate pirate simulator.

For Microsoft’s press briefing this morning ahead of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, the Rare development studio showed a new gameplay trailer for its secretive pirate-themed adventure game (coming to both Xbox One and PC). In the clip, the developer (best known for games like Banjo-Kazooie and Battletoads), invited its community members to play an early version of Sea of Thieves. They were laughing and yelling at each other as they tried to figure out how to use a boat, got drunk on grog, and battled each other on the open sea.