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Professor Watts Word Search: Pirates Life

Ripknot Systems · 2018-06-28

Steam

CasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 28, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hello Professor Watts here and I need your help! I've been assembling a lecture on the life of pirates, collecting samples and documenting important research materials. Now that I have returned to my laboratory I find all of my research files has been jumbled about.

Professor Watts Word Search: Pirates Life is a Casual, Indie, and Strategy game released in 2018, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (46% of 46 reviews).

0
playing now
46%
positive of 46 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
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.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 48% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-02

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2018-08-31) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120182025Week of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negative
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 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 05:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 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

$4.99$0.492018-06-282026-07-202018-06-28 — best price $1.192018-11-01 — best price $1.992018-12-20 — best price $0.492019-02-12 — best price $1.992019-06-21 — best price $4.992019-09-27 — best price $0.492019-12-03 — best price $4.992020-03-16 — best price $0.492020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-10-29 — best price $0.492020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-02-11 — best price $0.492021-04-26 — best price $4.992021-07-26 — best price $0.492021-11-01 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $0.492022-02-03 — best price $4.992022-06-23 — best price $0.492022-08-22 — best price $4.992023-01-02 — best price $0.492023-03-20 — best price $4.992023-06-29 — best price $0.492023-09-04 — best price $4.992023-12-04 — best price $1.042024-03-04 — best price $4.992024-05-20 — best price $0.742024-07-29 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $0.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-03-13 — best price $0.742025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-12-08 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $0.742026-05-18 — best price $4.992026-07-20 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

1
achievements tracked
99.4%
earned "Professors Assistant"
99.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DIndieLogicCasualPuzzleRelaxingStrategyWord GameSimulationStory Rich

Census log

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

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