How much revenue did PIRATECRAFT make?

$358–$962 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did PIRATECRAFT sell?

Q: How many copies did PIRATECRAFT sell?

1k to 2k copies, based on its 53 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 1k–2k; $358–$962 after Steam's cut $650–$1k before Steam's cut; from 53 reviews (Mixed)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid PIRATECRAFT and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including PIRATECRAFT's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 237k–541k

best case 2.6M (Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™)

Games like PIRATECRAFT

A typical game among these

≈ 237k–541k copies

≈ $881k–$2.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

Best case: Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ at ≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies, ≈ $21.4M–$57.7M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Open World (7 of 8) and Pirates (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Pirates + Open World, priced around $35. The breakout hits carry Assassin + Stealth + Parkour; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2005 to 2018, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 38 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ unreleased	Est. copies ≈ 1.9M–3.2M 13x vs typical SteamSpy 5M–10M	Est. revenue $21.4M–$57.7M after Steam's cut $39.0M–$88.7M before Steam's cut	$39.99	79k reviews Very Positive	PiratesOpen World
Windward 2015	Est. copies ≈ 177k–288k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $487k–$1.3M after Steam's cut $886k–$2.0M before Steam's cut	$9.99	4k reviews Mostly Positive	PiratesNaval Combat
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG 2016	Est. copies ≈ 109k–177k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $450k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $818k–$1.9M before Steam's cut	$14.99	3k reviews Mixed	PiratesAction
Risen 2: Dark Waters 2012	Est. copies ≈ 430k–698k SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut $2.1M–$4.9M before Steam's cut	$9.99	7k reviews Mostly Positive	RPGPirates
Sid Meier's Pirates! 2005	Est. copies ≈ 478k–777k SteamSpy 200k–500k	Est. revenue $1.3M–$3.5M after Steam's cut $2.4M–$5.4M before Steam's cut	$9.99	8k reviews Very Positive	PiratesOpen World
ArcheAge 2015	Est. copies ≈ 358k–582k SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue Free	Free	7k reviews Mixed	Massively MultiplayerFree to Play
ATLAS 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.3M–2.1M 7.0x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $10.8M–$28.9M after Steam's cut $19.6M–$44.5M before Steam's cut	$29.99	43k reviews Mixed	SurvivalOpen World
Worlds Adrift 2017	Est. copies ≈ 189k–307k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue Free	Free	5k reviews Mixed	Open WorldMassively Multiplayer