Microsoft’s Sea of Thieves Collaborates With Sony’s Destiny 2 For a New Crossover

A Sony property is crossing over into a Microsoft game. Sea of Thieves has received new cosmetics from the world of Destiny 2, bringing the fight against the Darkness to the high seas.

The Lightbearer cosmetics set offers new flags, ship cosmetics, a costume set, and more. In the trailer for the new set of items, you can spot various Destiny references ranging from the Drifter’s outfit to a ghost dangling off the front of a ship. The Pirate Emporium has a weath of options available to deck out your ship and sailor in Destiny cosmetics.

Sea of Thieves made its way to PlayStation last year as one of several Microsoft properties that have jumped to Sony’s console. Destiny, meanwhile, has been on Xbox and remained there through Bungie’s acquisition by Sony. While this might blur some perceived console lines, it’s a fun crossover and the Drifter’s outfit in particular suits the world of Sea of Thieves quite well.

Season 15 of Sea of Thieves recently went live, adding various new encounters, voyages, and new content to the long-running piracy experience. Rare’s game has managed to stay afloat for quite some time, and it’s even seen success on PlayStation 5, topping an EU sales chart back when it made its way to the platform.

Destiny 2, meanwhile, launched Heresy and continues to chart a path out from its big narrative conclusion in The Final Shape. The space-faring shooter has had its own recent crossovers, most notably with Star Wars.

Both games have managed to weather the changing, shifting tides of live-service game production, so it’s neat to see them pair up in this Sea of Thieves crossover. The cosmetics are live now in Sea of Thieves, though it remains to be seen if Destiny 2 will receive any Sea of Thieves content. In this writer’s opinion, they should put a big pirate boat in space. Just a thought.

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.