Windrose Steam Numbers Show People Want Pirate Games As Black Flag Rumors Swirl

Aside from https://www.gamespot.com/games/crimson-desert/">Crimson Desert, one of the hottest games (on PC, anyway) is the pirate sandbox MMO https://www.gamespot.com/games/windrose/">Windrose, which is quickly sailing up the Steam charts with over 100,000 players swashbuckling three days after launch.

According to the player tracker SteamDB, Windrose has https://steamdb.info/app/3041230/charts/">a concurrent player count of 102,999 players.

That puts it at https://steamdb.info/">the No. 11 spot on the Most Played Games list, beating out the life sim https://www.gamespot.com/games/stardew-valley/">Stardew Valley (~100,000) but trailing behind the action-adventure RPG Crimson Desert (~113,000).

It's nowhere near the likes of https://www.gamespot.com/games/counter-strike-global-offensive/">Counter Strike 2 (~1.4 million) or https://www.gamespot.com/games/slay-the-spire-2/">Slay the Spire 2 (~286,000); however, for a game that hit early access on April 14, reaching an all-time peak of 113,930 and not just maintaining that but almost cresting that is an impressive feat to behold.

It makes sense, in a way.

With over 4,500 reviews that amount to https://store.steampowered.com/app/3041230/Windrose/">a "very positive" rating on Steam, Windrose harkens back to a game like https://www.gamespot.com/games/risen/">Risen--if it were actually good--and proves gamers are desperate for more pirate adventures.

Who doesn't like pillaging and plundering?

And with the reports that the Black Flag remake, officially titled https://www.gamespot.com/games/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag/">Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced, is https://www.gamespot.com/articles/assassins-creed-black-flag-resynced-reportedly-drops-anchor-this-july/1100-6539462/">launching on July 9, it appears now's the time for pirates to dominate just as ninja and samurai have.