Gaming: Steam week in review: Pragmata and Windrose face off, with sad sci-fi dads proving no match for tree-chopping pirates (2026)

Gaming: Steam week in review: Pragmata and Windrose face off, with sad sci-fi dads proving no match for tree-chopping pirates (2026)

All the interesting Steam facts for the week ending April 19. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Unlock instant access to exclusive member features. Get full access to premium articles, exclusive features and a growing list of member rewards. 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.

Source: PC Gamer