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How many copies did Caribbean Pirates sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 149–242
from 6 reviews (6 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

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

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 243k–737k
best case 2.6M (Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™)
Games like Caribbean Pirates

The middle of these games

≈ 243k–737k copies

≈ $1.1M–$4.3M after Steam's cut

from ~8k reviews

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

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ at ≈ 1.9M–3.2M copies, ≈ $21.4M–$57.6M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Pirates (8 of 8) and Naval (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Pirates + Open World, priced around $40.
The era
The games you compared 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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