Skull & Bones gets a rating, might finally come out

Yo ho mateys — Skull & Bones is on the horizon

When Skull & Bones showed 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, like Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Sea of Thieves, and of course the classic Monkey Island series. Players were ready for Skull & Bones to join those ranks, because it looks like it would be yet another unforge🥀ttable 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 behind Skull & Bones, Ubisoft Singapore, went through some pretty significant changes throughout the course of making the game, which included a few delays and other development problems here and there. In 2020, the studio shifted towards a live-service approach for the title. Finally, a video in April gave us a good look at some of Skull & 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 ℱwas noticed by Twitter user @the_marmolade and reported by the .

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 to , for a reason unbeknownst to us.

This is excellent news for the fans who’ve stuck around long enough to even remember this game, because Skull & Bones is finally supposed to release . 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.