Yo ho mateys —Skull & Bonesis on the horizon
WhenSkull & Bonesshowed up to E3 2017 with a bombastic cinematic trailer for a new game that featured pirates swashbuckling on the Indian Ocean, gamers were understandably pumped. We’ve had some pretty awesome pirate games over the years, likeAssassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Sea of Thieves, and of course the classicMonkey Islandseries. Players were ready forSkull & Bonesto join those ranks, because it looks like it would be yet another unforgettable adventure on the high seas. That is, if it ever comes out.
The next year at E3, thankfully, we got another story trailer and a gameplay trailer, so there were no signs of any turbulent waters yet. As time went on, though, the game fell into the whirlpool that is game development — the studio behindSkull & Bones, Ubisoft Singapore, went through some pretty significant changes throughout the course of making the game, which included a fewdelaysand other development problems here and there. In 2020, the studio shifted towards alive-service approachfor the title. Finally,a video in Aprilgave us a good look at some ofSkull & Bones’gameplay systems, revitalizing our hope one more time.
The newest update on the game is that ratings have started coming in — specifically, one from the Game Rating and Administration Committee from South Korea, as was noticed by Twitter user @the_marmolade and reported by theVideo Games Chronicle.
So it’s not exactly a huge update by any means, but it does mean that the game is one step closer to getting its full release. While the ESRB doesn’t have a listing for the game yet, apparently it’s common for the Korean committee torelease its ratings first, for a reason unbeknownst to us.
This is excellent news for the fans who’ve stuck around long enough to even remember this game, becauseSkull & Bonesis finally supposed to releasesometime next year. As a big fan of pirates myself, this is one I’ve tentatively kept an eye on over the years after I first saw it at E3 in 2018, and I for one will be looking forward to joining the adventure on the high seas…whenever I can.
