Sea of Thieves is due out in March

Rare's upcoming pirate adventure Sea of Thieves finally has a release date: March 20 2018.

The news came out of last night's packed Game Awards show, along with this brief trailer:

Sea of Thieves is a pirate-themed multiplayer adventure where players form crews in a giant nautical sandbox and do swashbuckling things together. It's an Xbox One exclusive, as you'd expect from a Microsoft-owned developer.

We're still not sure entirely what to make of it, but it seems to have a rum sense of humor.