How much revenue did Charlie Murder make?

$277k–$745k 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 164k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 101k–164k; $277k–$745k after Steam's cut $504k–$1.1M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Charlie Murder out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Charlie Murder's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 11.9M–13.0M

best case 37.8M (HELLDIVERS™ 2)

Games like Charlie Murder

The middle of these games

≈ 11.9M–13.0M copies

≈ $130.8M–$248.9M after Steam's cut

from ~289k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Your picks lean toward this genre's biggest survivors; the typical figure reads from its ordinary successes.

Best case: HELLDIVERS™ 2 at ≈ 28.8M–46.8M copies, ≈ $316.7M–$851.6M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on 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.
The era: The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 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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