New This Season
Season 20 is all about putting the power in players’ hands. Custom Seas introduces a suite of tools that enable you to bring your own Sea of Thieves game ideas to life, setting up unique modes to challenge your crewmates and create content in ways that previously wouldn’t have been possible. Alongside this, a shake-up of the Seasonal rewards structure promises clearer, more reliable ways of ensuring your time on the seas always feels valuable!
Custom Seas
Within Custom Seas, each player is the master of their own fate. Through an array of menus and switches, Session Owners can adjust the world around them to create entirely new ways of playing the game and bringing their friends together to face bespoke challenges. Whether it’s setting up crews, spawning in foes to fight or fast travelling across the map in the blink of an eye, Custom Seas puts you at the helm of your own adventure in all aspects of play.
Track Your Progress This Season
While Season 20 does not follow previous Seasons’ Act structure, there are still Seasonal Deeds themed around Custom Seas to be completed! Check them off to earn a bump in Seasonal Renown (awarded when you return to High Seas) and the ‘Legendary Beginnings’ Painting, and complete them all to unlock the Custom Crafter Sails to commemorate your accomplishments.
Changes to Seasonal Rewards
Season 20 also introduces changes to how you earn rewards during your adventures. The actions that award Seasonal Renown have been made clearer, with a focus on active participation in the game rather than passive sources.
At the same time, the former 100 levels of Renown are being condensed to 50, split across 10 tiers, each tier giving you the opportunity to pick up Doubloons, Voyages and a Cosmetic Choice offering one of three Pirate Emporium items to keep. At the end of the track waits the Star Prize, a carefully crafted cosmetic unlike any other…
Season Pass Star Prize
There are rewards to be earned throughout the Season Pass, including Voyages and a bountiful purse of Doubloons to save for the next Bilge Rats Weekender! Every five levels, you’ll also get to choose between three hand-picked items from the Pirate Emporium archives. The final reward for completing each Season Pass is a very special Star Prize – for Season 20, that’s the animated Greed’s Reach Cutlass!
Season Pass Premium Tier
In place of the former Plunder Pass, you now have the option to purchase the Season Pass: Premium Tier. As with the free Season Pass available to everyone, the Premium Tier consists of 50 levels to be earned throughout a Season, and grants further unlockable rewards of Ancient Coins along with a new and exclusive ship set.
In Season 20, owners of the Season Pass: Premium Tier can pick up the full Sirens’ Splendour ship set including Collector’s Figurehead and Sails, and 1000 Ancient Coins to spend in the Pirate Emporium or reinvest in the Premium Tier next Season. Premium Tier holders also get a handy boost to their Renown earnings throughout the Season, making it a little easier to hit that maximum level.
Boost Your Seasonal Progress
We understand that even the most dedicated pirates don’t always have as much time to spend earning rewards as they might like, which is why it’s now possible to purchase Season Pass levels. These make it easier to reach maximum Renown before a Season ends, and to speed your journey towards the Star Prize! But we also want to ensure that players still take time to experience Season 20 and savour a sense of natural progression, so purchasable Season Pass levels are limited to a maximum of 10 per Season.
About the Game
Sea of Thieves offers the essential pirate experience, from sailing and fighting to exploring and looting – everything you need to live the pirate life and become a legend in your own right. With no set roles, you have complete freedom to approach the world, and other players, however you choose.
Whether you’re voyaging as a group or sailing solo, you’re bound to encounter other crews in this shared world adventure – but will they be friends or foes, and how will you respond?
A Vast Open World
Explore a vast open world filled with unspoiled islands and underwater kingdoms. Take on quests to hunt for lost loot, forge a reputation with the Trading Companies and battle foes from Phantoms and Ocean Crawlers to Megalodons and the mighty Kraken. Try your hand at fishing, make maps to your own buried treasure or choose from hundreds of other optional goals and side-quests!
A Game That’s Always Growing
With each Season bringing in new game features every three months alongside regular in-game Events, Sea of Thieves is a service-based game that’s still growing and evolving. Check back regularly to see what free content has been newly added, and see how far you can climb through each Season’s 50 levels of Renown to earn special rewards.
Become Legend
On your journey to become a Pirate Legend you’ll amass loot, build a reputation and define a unique personal style with your hard-earned rewards. Adventurer. Explorer. Conqueror. What will your legend be?
Sea of Thieves: Premium Edition
The 2026 Premium Edition includes:
All the content in the Base and Deluxe Editions
Cardinal Lodestar Cat, Costume Set, Flag, Hull, Figurehead, Sails, Cannons, Cannon Flare, Capstan, Wheel, Collector’s Figurehead, Collector’s Sails and Ship’s Crest
1000 Ancient Coins for use in the Pirate Emporium
Sea of Thieves: Deluxe Edition
The 2026 Deluxe Edition includes:
All the content in the Base Edition
Sovereign Hat, Dress, Jacket, Boots, Belt, Trousers and Gloves
Cardinal Lodestar Pistol, Blunderbuss, Eye of Reach, Cutlass, Double Barrel Pistol, Throwing Knives, Grapple Gun and Blowpipe
10,000 gold to spend in the Outpost shops
Sea of Thieves
The 2026 Base Edition includes:
Additional digital bonuses* include access to the Sea of Thieves Original Soundtrack – 2026 Edition, the Sea of Thieves: Athena's Fortune audiobook and The Rough Guide to Sea of Thieves eBook
* Available to download from Sea of Thieves /bonuses (website login required) or via Steam.
