How much revenue did Pirates - Digital Strategy Game make?

$953–$3k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Pirates - Digital Strategy Game sell?

Q: How many copies did Pirates - Digital Strategy Game sell?

347 to 564 copies, based on its 14 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 347–564; $953–$3k after Steam's cut $2k–$4k before the cut; from 14 reviews (Positive)

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

Does this actually work?

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 538k–958k

best case 1.4M (RISK: Global Domination)

Games like Pirates - Digital Strategy Game

The middle of these games

≈ 538k–958k copies

≈ $1.8M–$5.2M after Steam's cut

from ~13k 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: RISK: Global Domination at ≈ 1.0M–1.7M copies.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 837 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 1 to 975.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Board Game (8 of 8) and Turn-Based Strategy (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Board Game + Turn-Based Strategy.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2024, and 1 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 70 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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