Pirates games on Steam
The niche at a glance
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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third Person | 68 | 21 | 14 | 17.6% 10%–28% | 15.2% | cliché ×1.72 | 96 d |    | |
| First-Person | 49 | 17 | 27 | 14.3% 7%–27% | 12.1% | ordinary ×0.88 | 90 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 11 | 3 | 38 | under 20 | 10.8% | ordinary ×0.74 | 96 d |  | |
| Realistic | 22 | 5 | 8 | 13.6% 5%–33% | 10.3% | ordinary ×0.74 | 357 d |  | |
| 3D | 142 | 39 | 10 | 10.6% 7%–17% | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.24 | 96 d | | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 5 | 1 | 1 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.76 | 973 d |  | |
| 2.5D | 17 | 6 | 16 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.10 | 322 d |   | |
| Dark | 7 | 5 | 5 | under 20 | 8.6% | avoided ×0.24 | 90 d |  | |
| Isometric | 22 | 4 | 16 | 9.1% 3%–28% | 7.9% | cliché ×1.81 | 743 d |  | |
| Horror | 10 | 4 | 5 | under 20 | 7.8% | avoided ×0.28 | 90 d | | |
| Anime | 36 | 6 | 16 | 8.3% 3%–22% | 7.7% | ordinary ×0.74 | 750 d |    | |
| Violent | 11 | 5 | 8 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.59 | 90 d | | |
| Funny | 66 | 14 | 16 | 7.6% 3%–17% | 7.4% | ordinary ×1.41 | 322 d | | |
| Minimalist | 14 | 6 | 4 | under 20 | 6.9% | ordinary ×0.54 | 931 d |  | |
| Colorful | 120 | 25 | 10 | 6.7% 3%–13% | 6.7% | ordinary ×1.41 | 335 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.
