Pirates games on Steam
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Pirates on Steam: 920 released games, 254 in the last 12 months, 414 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 47% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Pirates is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .
What releases end up with
lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included371 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPirates × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Pirates at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Pirates × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World | 59 | 17 | 127 | 35.6% 25%–48% | 28.3% | cliché ×3.02 | 90 d |    | |
| Action RPG | 41 | 8 | 21 | 26.8% 16%–42% | 20.2% | cliché ×1.71 | 214 d |    | |
| Character Customization | 37 | 7 | 33 | 27.0% 15%–43% | 19.9% | cliché ×1.60 | 214 d |  | |
| CRPG | 7 | 1 | 570 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×1.70 | 214 d |   | |
| Sandbox | 33 | 12 | 58 | 27.3% 15%–44% | 19.5% | cliché ×1.91 | 214 d |   | |
| Crafting | 29 | 6 | 59 | 27.6% 15%–46% | 19.0% | cliché ×1.65 | 182 d |  | |
| Naval Combat | 73 | 21 | 36 | 19.2% 12%–30% | 16.5% | cliché ×70.22 | 96 d | | |
| Naval | 75 | 25 | 31 | 18.7% 11%–29% | 16.1% | cliché ×54.39 | 96 d | | |
| RPG | 76 | 20 | 26 | 18.4% 11%–29% | 16.0% | ordinary ×1.44 | 182 d | | |
| Combat | 79 | 20 | 14 | 17.7% 11%–28% | 15.5% | cliché ×1.75 | 96 d |  | |
| FPS | 17 | 6 | 59 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.90 | 113 d |  | |
| Sailing | 75 | 23 | 31 | 16.0% 9%–26% | 14.0% | cliché ×66.14 | 96 d | | |
| Exploration | 112 | 33 | 33 | 15.2% 10%–23% | 13.9% | cliché ×1.76 | 90 d | | |
| Nonlinear | 12 | 6 | 16 | under 20 | 13.5% | ordinary ×1.16 | 214 d | | |
| Survival | 35 | 10 | 56 | 17.1% 8%–33% | 13.3% | cliché ×1.52 | 90 d | |
About these numbers
“Adjusted” is the share pulled towards the catalogue with the weight of twenty releases: the top of any ranked list is optimistic (out of a hundred pairings one will show 35 % on 23 releases by luck alone), and the adjustment is what stops a small lucky group from leading. The band next to the raw share is the 95 % interval. This list is the same for everyone today; the second opinion is the description-based one on Pitch comps.
