Update July 31st: Cursed Sails is now live! Check out our dedicated page for a good look at the new features included and rewards to be earned. Our weekly release notes will also help you track the tide of battle as the Cursed Sails campaign progresses. Now weigh anchor and set sail for war!

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Sea of Thieves launched in March, its first content update The Hungering Deep followed in May, and now that July's upon us we're about to unleash the most substantial update yet. Cursed Sails will be unfurling on July 31st, and like our other content updates it comes free of charge to all who own the game.

Cursed Sails will change things forever on the Sea of Thieves, as the sails you see cresting the horizon are no longer guaranteed to be other players making their own way through the world. The decks beneath those masts may now be manned by skeletal marauders returned to the seas from their restless graves. All that sustains these grinning terrors is a battle-thirst that leads them to terrorise Outposts and call out defenders to face them on the tides...