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Action indie game Murder Miners launched in 2014 from developer and publisher JForce Games. With 6,369 Steam reviews at 86% positive and a $2.99 initial price, it stands out as a budget, very positively reviewed option.
Overview
Murder Miners is a 2014 Action game developed by JForce Games and published by JForce Games. On Steam it has gathered 3,969 player reviews, 86% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $3. The pairing of developer JForce Games with publisher JForce Games 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 167,000 to 389,000 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, Murder Miners can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,969
Positive
86%
Steam appid
274900
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0167K to 389K
units (median: 278K)
≈ $285K to $664K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$3 | -20 |
| positive_86% | +10 |
| final NB | 70 |
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 Murder Miners at roughly 167,000 to 389,000 copies, with a median around 278,000, derived from its 3,969 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $475K 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
6 observed days · window low $2.99Across 6 observed UTC days from 2026-07-17 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $2.99 to $2.99. The tracked-window low was $2.99 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Murder Miners sold?
- indielist estimates Murder Miners has sold between 166,698 and 388,962 units (median 277,830), derived from its 3,969 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Murder Miners?
- Murder Miners was developed by JForce Games and published by JForce Games.
- Who published Murder Miners?
- Murder Miners was published by JForce Games, developed by JForce Games. See JForce Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Murder Miners released?
- Murder Miners was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Murder Miners have on Steam?
- Murder Miners has 3,969 Steam reviews, of which 86% are positive.
- Is Murder Miners worth playing?
- Steam players rate Murder Miners 86% positive across 3,969 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Murder Miners can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, JForce Games's other releases and JForce Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Murder Miners 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 Murder Miners 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.
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