How many copies has Rise of Piracy sold?

indielist estimates Rise of Piracy has sold between 11,448 and 26,712 units (median 19,080), derived from its 477 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who published Rise of Piracy?

Rise of Piracy was published by MicroProse Software, developed by IrishJohnGames. See MicroProse Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Rise of Piracy released?

Rise of Piracy was released in 2026.

How many reviews does Rise of Piracy have on Steam?

Rise of Piracy has 477 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.

Is Rise of Piracy worth playing?

Steam players rate Rise of Piracy 79% positive across 477 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.

Rise of Piracy

Feb 24, 2026 Action $15.99

Developer IrishJohnGames Publisher MicroProse Software

Profile updated Jul 2026

Action-focused indie game Rise of Piracy comes from developer irishjohngames and publisher MicroProse Software. Released in 2026 at $15.99, it has 438 Steam reviews listed with 0% positive and a mixed rating signal.

Rise of Piracy is a 2026 Action game developed by IrishJohnGames and published by MicroProse Software. On Steam it has gathered 477 player reviews, 79% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $16. The pairing of developer IrishJohnGames with publisher MicroProse Software 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 11,000 to 27,000 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, Rise of Piracy can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

477

Positive

79%

Steam appid

1400660

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

11K to 27K

units (median: 19K)

≈ $105K to $244K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

11K median 27K

+ How is this calculated?

477 reviews × NB(40) = 19,080 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2026	-10
price_$16	0
positive_79%	0
final NB	40

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 Rise of Piracy at roughly 11,000 to 27,000 copies, with a median around 19,000, derived from its 477 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $174K 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

8 observed days · window low $12.79

Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.79 to $15.99. The tracked-window low was $12.79 on 2026-07-20.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

windows

Genres

Action AdventureIndieSimulation StrategyEarly Access

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Rise of Piracy sold?: indielist estimates Rise of Piracy has sold between 11,448 and 26,712 units (median 19,080), derived from its 477 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Rise of Piracy?: Rise of Piracy was developed by IrishJohnGames and published by MicroProse Software.
Who published Rise of Piracy?: Rise of Piracy was published by MicroProse Software, developed by IrishJohnGames. See MicroProse Software's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Rise of Piracy released?: Rise of Piracy was released in 2026.
How many reviews does Rise of Piracy have on Steam?: Rise of Piracy has 477 Steam reviews, of which 79% are positive.
Is Rise of Piracy worth playing?: Steam players rate Rise of Piracy 79% positive across 477 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.

Players looking for games like Rise of Piracy can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, IrishJohnGames's other releases and MicroProse Software's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Rise of Piracy 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 Rise of Piracy 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.