Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Pirates: 67 releases in the last 12 months

There is no price yet: it needs 30 or more indie paid launches in the last four complete quarters. 9 of 84 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 20% on the year before: 67 against 56.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 67
Upcoming games: 221
Games on the store: 664

Boards

as of 30 Sep 2026

Where this tag stands on each board of the front page. Every value carries its 90% interval and its sample.

Boards rank genres and tag pairs. This tag is a theme, mood, feature or presentation tag, so it is never ranked as a market on its own; its pairs are listed below.

Launch success

Matured indie paid launches that earned an estimated $100k or more, against the number expected for games at the same price tier and launch quarter.

Hits: 9

Launches: 84
Hit rate: 10.7%4.5% to 18.4%
Expected rate: 11.0%

Under 30 matured launches, so this tag is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.

Revenue spread

84 launches

Estimated lifetime gross of the same matured launches. Half earned less than the median; one in ten earned more than the top figure.

Bottom tenth: $87
Median: $1,375
Top tenth: $122,866

Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.

Supply

raw release counts

Games released with this tag, last 12 months against the 12 before.

Last 12 months: 67
Prior 12 months: 56

Change: +20%

Comparable games

8 indie titles

The biggest indie games in this tag by estimated lifetime gross. Revenue is shown as a number at 50 or more reviews, as a range at 10 to 49, and not at all below 10.

More with Pirates

pairs with Pirates

Adventure + Piratesno price24 releases in 12 months
Strategy + Piratesno price22 releases in 12 months
Casual + Piratesno price20 releases in 12 months
Pirates + Naval Combatno price18 releases in 12 months
Pirates + Explorationno price17 releases in 12 months
Pirates + Sailingno price17 releases in 12 months
Action + Piratesno price13 releases in 12 months
Pirates + Navalno price13 releases in 12 months
Simulation + Piratesno price11 releases in 12 months
Pirates + 2Dno price10 releases in 12 months
Pirates + Action-Adventureno price10 releases in 12 months
Pirates + Roguelikeno price10 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Pirates

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