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Buccaneers!

Buccaneers! is a first-person pirate game for PC, Xbox One and VR devices. The game is set in the Caribbean sea after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, and explores a fictional timeline in which piracy…

7 March 2022

Buccaneers! is an indie developed by Skyward Digital, released 7 March 2022 on Xbox One, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.

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What Buccaneers! is

Buccaneers! is an indie game developed by Skyward Digital and released in 2022. It was published by Valkyrie Initiative. It is available on Xbox One, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR. It runs on Unity 2020.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Buccaneers! is a first-person pirate game for PC, Xbox One and VR devices. The game is set in the Caribbean sea after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, and explores a fictional timeline in which piracy recovers and becomes a major threat to the balance of power in the region. The player joins one of four factions and helps them to fight for dominance on land and at sea.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Buccaneers! launched on 7 March 2022, within three weeks of Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic and Ghostwire: Tokyo. It arrived 9 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Horizon Forbidden West, Elden Ring, Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo.

Official trailer

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When did Buccaneers! come out?
Buccaneers! was released on 7 March 2022 for Xbox One, PC (Microsoft Windows) and SteamVR.

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