Pirate game Windrose dethrones Steam's survival champion as it sails up the charts

Pirate survival game Windrose launched in Early Access to strong reviews and quickly overtook Rust on Steam concurrent-player charts.

The game peaked at over 202,000 concurrent players and later crossed 1 million total sales.

Its rapid rise points to strong demand for pirate-themed survival games and a major early-access win for Kraken Express and Pocketpair.