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How many copies did Caribbean Pirates sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Only 6 reviews so far, so that range swings on one or two people. Read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 244k–738k
best case 2.6M (Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™)
Games like Caribbean Pirates

A typical game among these

≈ 244k–738k copies

≈ $1.1M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

7 of the 8 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.

The genre you'd be entering
These games
The similar games share Pirates (8 of 8) and Naval (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Pirates + Open World, priced around $40.
When they shipped
The similar games span 2005 to 2022, 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 31 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).

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Positive
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