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Pirates of Black Cove cover art

Pirates of Black Cove

Nitro Games · 2011-08-02

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 02, 2011 (Linux), Apr 26, 2013 (Mac), Aug 02, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Plunder your way to the top and claim the title of Pirate King. This humorous mix of adventure and strategy lets you unite pirate factions, manage strongholds, and dominate land and sea battles. Raid, recruit, and wreak havoc across the Caribbean in your quest for ultimate infamy.

0
playing now
65%
positive of 173 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 09:00 UTC (census sample)

Pirates of Black Cove is a pirate-themed real-time strategy game published by Paradox Interactive in August 2011.

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  • · Top 61% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.9k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 173 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.21 at Nuuvem (2014-10-28) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 17 of 28 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.492015-01-012026-08-142015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-01-29 — best price $9.242015-02-23 — best price $9.252015-03-30 — best price $1.992015-04-13 — best price $7.992015-04-22 — best price $9.492015-04-28 — best price $9.492015-05-03 — best price $9.912015-05-11 — best price $9.492015-05-19 — best price $1.992015-05-27 — best price $9.492015-06-02 — best price $9.892015-06-12 — best price $9.492015-07-08 — best price $12.332015-09-11 — best price $2.492015-09-22 — best price $9.992015-10-27 — best price $2.492015-11-16 — best price $9.992015-12-03 — best price $9.992016-01-02 — best price $9.992016-02-12 — best price $2.492016-02-23 — best price $4.992016-03-23 — best price $9.992016-04-25 — best price $2.492016-05-16 — best price $8.992016-06-30 — best price $9.992016-08-30 — best price $9.992017-01-05 — best price $3.992017-06-22 — best price $2.492017-11-27 — best price $1.982017-12-25 — best price $9.992018-04-13 — best price $9.992020-11-27 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-04-02 — best price $9.992026-06-05 — best price $1.692026-07-13 — best price $9.992026-08-10 — best price $1.692026-08-14 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, German

Player tags

RTSActionPiratesStrategySingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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