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Dead By Murder

Bmovie games · Strategy First · 2017-10-03

SteamEpic Games Store

AdventureIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 03, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

“Dead By Murder”, is a murder mystery strategy game, where the user plays as a police detective and must solve a series of homicide cases.

58%
positive of 53 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$3.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 71% of 14,116 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–3.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 53 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.48 at GreenManGaming (2022-09-30) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620172026Week of 2017-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Greek, French, Turkish

Player tags

NoirIndieStrategyAdventure

Census log

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