Skull and Bones PC

Skull and Bones PC

Skull and bones for PC is a tactical action survival game, set in an open world environment with third-person player perspective. It is different from the usual run of survival games – fun as those can be – in that you will constantly be setting out to sea to achieve your aims, rather than staying static in one place and trying to defend your homestead as it grows.

About the Game

The game begins in a way familiar to fans of the survival type game, with the character washing up on a beach with nothing to their name but some ragged clothes and a few odds and ends. Struggling to survive as they make their way to the nearby town of Sainte-Anne, which is something of a pirate haven, you arrive in town and begin to work at getting back out to sea to earn some infamy and cash.

There is not much to do in the way of sailing: most of your at-sea action is in the hands of your NPC crew, but you must keep an eye on their morale so they don’t mutiny on you – they must be kept happy, well fed and in regular receipt of their promised dram of rum or whisky!

Despite the lack of ropes to pull on and what sits to belay, you want to be mindful of your ship, keeping an eye out for invaders and other pirates. If something does happen to the ship, you will spawn in the nearest safe place, but your precious loot, cargo and treasure – everything you had on board – is all gone, just waiting in the middle of the ocean for another player to zoom along and snaffle it.

Experience points in this game (usually XP) are called ‘infamy’, and the more you have, the bigger ships and better quests you can earn. This gains you a bigger target on your back. There are NPC ships, loaded to the gunwales with pirate-catching privateers who are anxious to capture themselves a big bad pirate captain for a fat bounty, all over the seas and they will hunt you down with skill and enthusiasm unless you are a bit cautious in your travels.

Throughout the game, you will loop through a series of quests, improving your might and infamy with each go-round, setting off to sea, winning, earning and gaining, and then coming back to stash it all safely, before heading off again. It is exceedingly satisfying to progress from ragged castaway to imposing fleet captain over the course of the game.