What’s the best Pirate Game that ISN’T Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag? Find out in The Best Games Ever Podcast

Contains only minimal discussion about Blackbeard’s syphilitic pinger.

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The Best Games Ever podcast is a game show where three regular panellists have to find the best game in a weirdly specific category such as “Best game with a named horse”, or “Best game with a terrible British accent”. They have to pitch their pick to our host, Jim, who then decides the winner. But there’s a lot of office politics, backstabbing, and meta-gaming going on which makes this mild-mannered panel game fraught with real danger.

This week, inspired by the recent release (finally) of £70 quadruple-A experience Skull & Bones , we’re asking: what’s the best Pirate Game that isn’t Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag ? We’re asking like that because of two things:

Black Flag is arguably the best pirate game of all time. Well, it’s either Black Flag or Sid Meier’s Pirates!, and the latter isn’t connected to a recent game launch, so.
It definitely isn’t Skull & Bones, because that game frankly deserves to walk the plank.

How do you define a pirate game, anyway? Does it have to involve flintlock pistols, cutlasses, and sailing the actual caribbean? Or can it be something that features acts of piracy in an entirely different setting? Well, figuring that out is part of the game, so watch or listen to this via the handy methods provided below.

Watch the video version ofThe Best Games Ever Showhere:

This is the video. You should watch it, you get to see everyone’s lovely faces as they react to Mark’s chat about Blackbeard’s syphilitic pinger.Watch on YouTube

Listen to the audio version ofThe Best Games Ever Showhere:

This is the audio. You should listen to it, that way you don’t have to see our faces as we react to Mark’s chat about Blackbeard’s syphilitic pinger.

Special thanks to David Bulmer for performing “Jim’s Theme”.

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Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag

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Eve Online

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Fortnite

Android , iOS , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series X/S , PC , Mac , Nintendo Switch

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Wishlisted - Our 10 Best Steam Next Fest Demos

Another Next Fest kicks off soon, but we’ve already done the digging for you.

Welcome to Wishlisted, a showcase of our favourite demos from Steam Next Fest: June 2024. Check the video above or watch on YouTube .

Finding the Best NextFest Demos is all about the joy of discovery, but with so many Steam Next Fest demos getting released in such a short amount of time, it can be bewildering. So we’ve decided to show you our ten Best Steam Next Fest games which we think deserve your attention. These are all upcoming Steam Next Fest games that we’re genuinely excited for, and that we think should play nicely on PC handhelds too!

This is just the start of our Next Fest coverage. This week we’ll be previewing loads of upcoming demos across the entire network - right here on VG247, of course, but also over on our sister sites Eurogamer and Rock Paper Shotgun. Bookmark our Wishlisted Steam Fest hub to stay in the loop. And this is well before Next Fest actually starts, so you, dear reader, get to bask for a solid fortnight celebrating all the wonderful new games that are just around the corner. Enjoy!