How much revenue did Charlie Murder make?

$279k–$750k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Charlie Murder sell?

Q: How many copies did Charlie Murder sell?

101k to 165k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 101k–165k; $279k–$750k after Steam's cut $507k–$1.2M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Charlie Murder and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Charlie Murder's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.9M–13.0M

best case 37.9M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like Charlie Murder

A typical game among these

≈ 11.9M–13.0M copies

≈ $131.0M–$250.8M after Steam's cut

from ~291k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of the similar games are hits.

These similar games lean toward the genre's biggest winners; the typical figure comes from its ordinary successes.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.9M–46.9M copies, ≈ $317.6M–$854.0M after Steam's cut. It is a breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 154k reviews in their first month; the range was 40k to 251k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Shooter (7 of 8) and Co-op (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Survival Horror, priced around $20. The breakout hits carry Online Co-Op + Survival; a typical game here doesn't.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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