After two rip-roaring outings, Sea of Thieves’ wonderful Monkey Island adventure will soon reach its end; Rare has now confirmed its third and final instalment will launch next Thursday, 28th September – clearing the way for the pirate game’s tenth season on 19th October.
Sea of Thieves’ three-part The Legend of Monkey Island adventure got underway back in July, sending players on a quest to Mêlée Island where, thanks to the mysterious power of the Sea of the Damned, Guybrush Threepwood had become the mightiest pirate of all. It was a wonderful opening episode, managing to capture the magic (if perhaps not the humour) of the point-and-click classic, and things only got better in last month’s vastly more open-ended part two.
Episode three, titled The Lair of LeChuck, whisks players away to an absolutely gorgeous rendition of Monkey Island itself – which you can see a bit of at the 4:49 mark in Sea of Thieves’ latest news update below – spanning everything from dense jungle to lava-filled catacombs.
The Legend of Monkey Island’s concluding episode will be followed by another Sea of Thieves’ Community Weekend, running from 30th September to 2nd October, promising the usual gold, reputation, renown, and allegiance boosts, should you still need to eke out a few final levels of Season 9’s battle pass.