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Be a Pirate cover art

Be a Pirate

Amfich · Piece Of Voxel · 2020-11-09

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 09, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Be a Pirate - a game about a small but brave pirate, whose goal is to collect all the coins and escape faster, because time is limited.

Be a Pirate is a 2020 Indie, Simulation, and Strategy game priced at $0.99, with a Mixed sentiment based on 59% of 29 reviews and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
60%
positive of 30 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 67% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 63% of 49,583 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.89 at Steam (2025-11-20) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020202026Week of 2020-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

002026-09-15 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 09:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.892020-11-092026-08-232020-11-09 — best price $5.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $0.992021-03-17 — best price $9.992021-06-24 — best price $0.992021-07-23 — best price $9.992021-11-24 — best price $0.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-02-04 — best price $0.992022-04-11 — best price $9.992022-06-23 — best price $0.992022-07-22 — best price $9.992022-09-30 — best price $0.992022-11-25 — best price $9.992023-02-18 — best price $0.992023-03-23 — best price $9.992023-05-17 — best price $0.992023-07-27 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $3.192024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-02-28 — best price $0.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $0.992024-09-07 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-02 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-05-25 — best price $0.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-08-24 — best price $0.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-20 — best price $0.892026-01-19 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $0.892026-04-17 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $0.892026-07-24 — best price $9.992026-08-23 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

2DPuzzlePiratesStealthStrategyHand-drawnPlatformerSimulation2D PlatformerSide Scroller

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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