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Pirates of Black Cove cover art

Pirates of Black Cove

Nitro Games · 2011-08-02

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

Pirates of Black Cove is a $9.99 Strategy game released in 2011, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and Mixed (65% of 173 reviews) sentiment.

0
playing now
65%
positive of 173 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
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)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 33% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 6.9k–14k copies

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

Current store prices

IndieGala$1.69-83%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

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

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 19 of 30 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720112026Week of 2011-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2011-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2011-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 3 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
100Jul 2012Jun 2022Jul 2012 — avg 4 · peak 12Oct 2012 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2013 — avg 2 · peak 10Apr 2013 — avg 1 · peak 7Jul 2013 — avg 5 · peak 19Oct 2013 — avg 4 · peak 16Jan 2014 — avg 3 · peak 12Apr 2014 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2014 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2014 — avg 6 · peak 23Jan 2015 — avg 3 · peak 11Apr 2015 — avg 4 · peak 15Jul 2015 — avg 3 · peak 10Oct 2015 — avg 6 · peak 38Jan 2016 — avg 2 · peak 7Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2016 — avg 2 · peak 6Oct 2016 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2017 — avg 0 · peak 5Jan 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 5Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2019 — avg 0 · peak 3Oct 2019 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Jun 2020 — avg 1 · peak 3Oct 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 3Jun 2022 — avg 1 · peak 3

No change (0) in avg players vs prior month — Jun 2022

Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$1.492015-01-012026-10-012015-01-01 — 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 $1.692026-10-01 — best price $1.69
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1002026-05-30 — 2 pageviews2026-06-03 — 4 pageviews2026-06-07 — 3 pageviews2026-06-11 — 3 pageviews2026-06-15 — 1 pageviews2026-06-19 — 4 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-27 — 5 pageviews2026-07-01 — 9 pageviews2026-07-05 — 4 pageviews2026-07-09 — 4 pageviews2026-07-13 — 3 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-25 — 2 pageviews2026-07-29 — 2 pageviews2026-08-02 — 4 pageviews2026-08-06 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-14 — 9 pageviews2026-08-18 — 3 pageviews2026-08-22 — 4 pageviews2026-08-26 — 6 pageviews2026-08-30 — 5 pageviews2026-09-03 — 4 pageviews2026-09-07 — 6 pageviews2026-09-11 — 2 pageviews2026-09-15 — 3 pageviews2026-09-19 — 1 pageviews2026-09-23 — 2 pageviews2026-09-27 — 8 pageviews2026-10-01 — 3 pageviews2026-10-05 — 6 pageviews2026-10-09 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
80.1%
earned "Well, it's a start…"
11.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: English, German

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2011-12-15 (Steam store data)

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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