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Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic) cover art

Sid Meier's Pirates! Gold Plus (Classic)

MicroProse Software, Inc · Atari · 2014-10-09

SteamGOG

AdventureSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 09, 2014 (Mac), Oct 09, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 09, 2014 (Linux)

Ahoy mateys! From the Mind of Sid Meier, The Golden Age of Buccaneering has returned with Pirates! Gold!

62%
positive of 130 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$6.99
steam price (US)
Sid Meier's Pirates! is a 1987 action-adventure strategy video game developed and published by MicroProse for the Commodore 64. It was designed by Sid Meier, and was the first game to include his name in its title as an effort by MicroProse to attract fans of Meier's earlier games, most of which were combat vehicle simulation games. The game was later ported to several other platforms, including the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Macintosh, IBM PC, Atari ST, Amiga and Nintendo Entertainment System.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 20,417 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.3k–7.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 130 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.97 at Steam (2015-08-24) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 10 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320142026Week of 2014-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$1.362015-01-012026-09-032015-01-01 — best price $3.492015-06-22 — best price $6.992015-12-22 — best price $1.742016-04-22 — best price $2.372016-07-05 — best price $6.992016-09-22 — best price $6.992016-11-23 — best price $1.742017-02-06 — best price $6.992017-07-05 — best price $6.992017-10-23 — best price $6.992018-01-05 — best price $6.992018-05-01 — best price $2.092018-07-17 — best price $5.592018-10-30 — best price $2.092018-12-31 — best price $6.992019-03-16 — best price $2.092019-05-20 — best price $6.992019-08-22 — best price $2.092019-10-25 — best price $2.102019-12-03 — best price $6.992020-01-24 — best price $6.992020-04-06 — best price $2.092020-06-25 — best price $2.092020-08-28 — best price $2.092020-11-23 — best price $2.102021-02-05 — best price $2.092021-04-30 — best price $2.092021-07-23 — best price $6.992021-10-26 — best price $6.992021-12-22 — best price $2.092022-03-07 — best price $2.092022-05-24 — best price $6.992023-03-06 — best price $2.092024-01-22 — best price $3.492024-10-21 — best price $2.092024-12-26 — best price $6.992025-05-14 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $6.992026-07-20 — best price $6.992026-09-03 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2.0k1262026-06-26 — 212 pageviews2026-06-29 — 191 pageviews2026-07-02 — 175 pageviews2026-07-05 — 210 pageviews2026-07-08 — 268 pageviews2026-07-11 — 306 pageviews2026-07-14 — 223 pageviews2026-07-17 — 242 pageviews2026-07-20 — 246 pageviews2026-07-23 — 207 pageviews2026-07-26 — 242 pageviews2026-07-29 — 238 pageviews2026-08-01 — 217 pageviews2026-08-04 — 220 pageviews2026-08-07 — 168 pageviews2026-08-10 — 202 pageviews2026-08-13 — 170 pageviews2026-08-16 — 184 pageviews2026-08-19 — 183 pageviews2026-08-22 — 217 pageviews2026-08-25 — 172 pageviews2026-08-28 — 183 pageviews2026-08-31 — 192 pageviews2026-09-03 — 194 pageviews2026-09-06 — 179 pageviews2026-09-09 — 364 pageviews2026-09-12 — 172 pageviews2026-09-15 — 191 pageviews2026-09-18 — 166 pageviews2026-09-21 — 211 pageviews2026-09-23 — 223 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, German

Player tags

ClassicPiratesAdventureSimulationSingleplayer

Census log

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

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