Trident’s Tale revealed as new seafaring pirate adventure for consoles and PC

Skeleton warriors and swashbucklers, that’s pretty much all you need for a good pirate adventure, right? Well, it looks like there’s more than just that on the horizon for Trident’s Tale, a newly-revealed single-player outing from Itali👍an st💝udio 3DClouds.

While the announcement trailer below is mostly focused on cinematics, you’ll get a quick peek at how it plays near the end. There’s naval combat — for which you can customize and upgrade your ship — with cannon duels and sea monster battles, as well as island exploration. As you traverse land and sea, you’ll be able to recruit various characters to further expand your pirate crew and boost your odds of survival in a rough world. 

This isn’t 3DClouds’ first crack at high seas adventure. Under publisher Team17, the developer released King of Seas in 2021, ultimately ending up with . 3DClouds has dabbled in a bunch of licensed work over the years, too, including Blaze and the Monster Machines: Axle City Racers, Fast & Furious: Spy Racers Rise of SH1FT3R, TRANSFORMERS: Galactic Trials, and other similarly-styled arcade racers. They also brought send the pups on another mission to stop Mayor Humdinger in 2023’s PAW Patrol World.

With Trident’s Tale, they’re really putting an emphasis on its distinction as a single-player action-adventure. The announcement describes it as a game with “no live service nonsense or multiplayer,” touting a “tight 10-15 hour campaign.” We’ll find out how that campaign plays out when it hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC this May.