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How many copies did Pirates Outlaws sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 19k–32k
$107k–$287k after Steam's cut $194k–$442k before the cut
from 783 reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Pirates Outlaws out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Pirates Outlaws's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 347k–2.7M
best case 8.2M (Slay the Spire)
Games like Pirates Outlaws

The middle of these games

≈ 347k–2.7M copies

≈ $2.5M–$14.7M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Slay the Spire at ≈ 6.3M–10.2M copies, ≈ $43.1M–$116.0M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 7k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 48 to 21k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Card Game (6 of 8) and Deckbuilding (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Roguelike Deckbuilder + Card Game, priced around $25.
The era
The games you compared span 2016 to 2024, and 3 of your 8 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 52 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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