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Action-focused pirate RPG indie game from developer Herocraft and publisher herocraft-pc. Released in 2016 at an initial price of $14.99, it has 1,778 Steam reviews marked mixed; engine information is not listed.
Overview
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG is a 2016 Action game developed by HeroCraft and published by HeroCraft PC. On Steam it has gathered 1,777 player reviews, 69% of them positive, which counts as a mixed-to-positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $15. The pairing of developer HeroCraft with publisher HeroCraft PC is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 75,000 to 174,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Tempest: Pirate Action RPG can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,777
Positive
69%
Steam appid
418180
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.075K to 174K
units (median: 124K)
≈ $639K to $1.5M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2016 | +30 |
| price_$15 | 0 |
| positive_69% | -10 |
| final NB | 70 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Tempest: Pirate Action RPG at roughly 75,000 to 174,000 copies, with a median around 124,000, derived from its 1,777 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
6 observed days · window low $4.34Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-17, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.34 to $4.49. The tracked-window low was $4.34 on 2026-10-10.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Fanatical -74%$4.35 Buy
- GOG.com -70%$4.49 Buy
- Steam reference$14.99 Buy
- Humble Store$14.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
Latest tracked store observations (2026-10-17 06:01 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Tempest: Pirate Action RPG sold?
- indielist estimates Tempest: Pirate Action RPG has sold between 74,634 and 174,146 units (median 124,390), derived from its 1,777 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Tempest: Pirate Action RPG?
- Tempest: Pirate Action RPG was developed by HeroCraft and published by HeroCraft PC.
- Who published Tempest: Pirate Action RPG?
- Tempest: Pirate Action RPG was published by HeroCraft PC, developed by HeroCraft. See HeroCraft PC's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Tempest: Pirate Action RPG released?
- Tempest: Pirate Action RPG was released in 2016.
- How many reviews does Tempest: Pirate Action RPG have on Steam?
- Tempest: Pirate Action RPG has 1,777 Steam reviews, of which 69% are positive.
- Is Tempest: Pirate Action RPG worth playing?
- Steam players rate Tempest: Pirate Action RPG 69% positive across 1,777 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Tempest: Pirate Action RPG can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, Geometry Dash, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, HeroCraft's other releases and HeroCraft PC's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Tempest: Pirate Action RPG sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Tempest: Pirate Action RPG page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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