How many copies has Charlie Murder sold?

indielist estimates Charlie Murder has sold between 131,733 and 307,377 units (median 219,555), derived from its 2,583 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Charlie Murder?

Charlie Murder was developed by Ska Studios and published by Ska Studios.

Who published Charlie Murder?

Charlie Murder was published by Ska Studios, developed by Ska Studios. See Ska Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Charlie Murder released?

Charlie Murder was released in 2017.

How many reviews does Charlie Murder have on Steam?

Charlie Murder has 2,583 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is Charlie Murder worth playing?

Steam players rate Charlie Murder 96% positive across 2,583 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Charlie Murder

May 12, 2017 Action $9.99

Developer Ska Studios Publisher Ska Studios

Profile updated Jun 2026

Action beat ’em up indie game with RPG and adventure tags, Charlie Murder fits players searching for a punk-style brawler on a budget. Released in 2017 by Ska Studios and self-published via ska-studios, it has 2,827 Steam reviews at 96% positive and a $9.99 initial price.

Charlie Murder is a 2017 Action game developed by Ska Studios and published by Ska Studios. On Steam it has gathered 2,583 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Ska Studios with publisher Ska Studios is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 132,000 to 307,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Charlie Murder can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

2,583

Positive

96%

Steam appid

405290

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

132K to 307K

units (median: 220K)

≈ $752K to $1.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

132K median 307K

+ How is this calculated?

2,583 reviews × NB(85) = 219,555 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$10	-5
positive_96%	+10
final NB	85

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Charlie Murder at roughly 132,000 to 307,000 copies, with a median around 220,000, derived from its 2,583 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $1.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

10 observed days · window low $9.99

Across 10 observed UTC days from 2026-06-08 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $9.99 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $9.99 on 2026-06-08.

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Charlie Murder sold?: indielist estimates Charlie Murder has sold between 131,733 and 307,377 units (median 219,555), derived from its 2,583 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Charlie Murder?: Charlie Murder was developed by Ska Studios and published by Ska Studios.
Who published Charlie Murder?: Charlie Murder was published by Ska Studios, developed by Ska Studios. See Ska Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Charlie Murder released?: Charlie Murder was released in 2017.
How many reviews does Charlie Murder have on Steam?: Charlie Murder has 2,583 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is Charlie Murder worth playing?: Steam players rate Charlie Murder 96% positive across 2,583 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Charlie Murder can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Streets of Rogue, Salt and Sanctuary, Streets of Rage 4, Castle Crashers®, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Ska Studios's other releases and Ska Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Charlie Murder sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Charlie Murder page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.