Pragmata was meant to own this week. It was the highest profile new release by far and, from the vantage point of a couple of weeks ago, it looked like Capcom’s seventh-gen-evoking sci-fi shooter would have the week to itself. But it was not to be: pirate-survival timesink Windrose released into early access on April 14 after its release date was surprise-announced the previous week. Windrose ended up doing very well: at time of writing it’s the second best selling game on Steam right now by revenue, with only Counter-Strike 2 ahead of it. It sold a million copies in six days and currently has over 220,000 concurrent players, which is far higher than—to look at another newish live service game—Marathon’s all-time peak of 88,337.Yep: the numbers suggest that PC players are hungrier for a good pirate game than they are a new Bungie extraction shooter.Here’s where things land at the moment to give you some more context for how the week panned out, as per Steam itself. It’s not scientific: Steam doesn’t provide raw numbers, and this real time look comes ahead of the storefront’s weekly top sellers list, which comes out on Tuesdays:Top five Steam games right now by revenueRankGame1Counter-Strike 22Windrose3Pragmata4Mouse: P.I. For Hire5PUBG: BattlegroundsIt’s no surprise Windrose has done well. People love pirate videogames and pretty much every pirate videogame released over the last decade or so has been divisive at best. Sea of Thieves is a love-it-or-hate-it affair, while Skull & Bones has a lot of…
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