This week, PC gamers can get three free games from the Epic Games Store. One is the pirate-themed PvP game Blazing Sails, and the other two are the puzzle games Q.U.B.E. and Q.U.B.E. 2 .
Sail the seas and eliminate other pirate crews in Blazing Sails’ swashbuckling take on battle royale
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Having launched into Steam Early Access in September this year, Blazing Sails has accrued a modest following with comfortably over a thousand players booting up every day and a ‘very positive’ user rating at the time of writing. But the wind is
really in its sails on Twitch, where this pirate game found over 13,000 viewers on December 2.
Sure, there are more than a few similarities to Rare’s Sea of Thieves, but the differences are profound, too. Blazing Sails is not a cooperative exploration game, but a team-based battle royale in which you must eliminate other ships to become the scourge of the seven seas. The pirate genre has seen a bit of a renaissance just lately, but there still aren’t many games out there quite like it.