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Paper Pirates cover art

Paper Pirates

Iteration Games · 2020-02-28

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Feb 28, 2020 (Mac), Feb 28, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 28, 2020 (Linux)

Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw your crewmates overboard, but fear not - nobody’s ever out of the game!

91%
positive of 132 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$12.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 63% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 9,594 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.6k–5.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 132 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.29 at Steam (2025-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $12.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
111120202026Week of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$1.292020-02-282026-07-162020-02-28 — best price $8.992020-04-06 — best price $8.992020-04-22 — best price $8.992020-06-25 — best price $4.312020-07-09 — best price $8.992020-09-14 — best price $4.312020-11-02 — best price $8.992020-12-22 — best price $4.312021-03-08 — best price $8.992021-05-31 — best price $4.312021-07-08 — best price $8.992021-08-07 — best price $2.692021-10-25 — best price $8.992021-11-24 — best price $2.692022-01-05 — best price $8.992022-02-28 — best price $2.242022-07-07 — best price $8.992022-10-24 — best price $2.242022-11-29 — best price $8.992023-03-16 — best price $2.242023-05-27 — best price $8.992023-08-16 — best price $12.992023-09-25 — best price $12.992023-11-21 — best price $3.242024-01-04 — best price $12.992024-03-01 — best price $3.242024-03-21 — best price $12.992024-06-27 — best price $3.242024-08-25 — best price $12.992024-10-28 — best price $3.242024-12-04 — best price $12.992025-02-10 — best price $3.242025-03-20 — best price $12.992025-09-29 — best price $3.242025-11-03 — best price $12.992026-01-19 — best price $12.992026-05-21 — best price $1.292026-07-09 — best price $12.992026-07-16 — best price $12.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
67.3%
earned "Here Be Scallywags"
12.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPCo-opShared/Split Screen Co-opShared/Split ScreenSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller Support

Player tags

2DCo-opIndieCasualPiratesTabletopBoard GameParty GameTeam-BasedLocal Co-Op

Census log

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

Recent updates

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