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Midnight Murder Club cover art

Midnight Murder Club

Velan Studios · PlayStation Publishing LLC · 2025-08-14

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 14, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Aug 14, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A heart-pounding and hilarious horror party game set in a pitch-black mansion. Armed with a flashlight, a revolver, and proximity chat, you and up to five friends sneak, shout, and stumble your way through tense shootouts, chaotic traps, and total darkness.

Midnight Murder Club is an Action, Indie game released in 2025, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000 .. 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (65% of 477 reviews).

6
playing now
65%
positive of 477 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
74/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
4.37★
PlayStation Store rating (2,072 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$9.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (80 reviews).
  • · Top 21% of 27,786 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.5k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 477 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.02 at GameBillet (2026-06-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 33 of 34 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
545420252026Week of 2025-03-13: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-03-13: 26 negativeWeek of 2025-03-20: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-03-20: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-27: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-03-27: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-03: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-03: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-10: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-17: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-24: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-08: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-15: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-05-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-22: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-12: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-26: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-03: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-24: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-07: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-14: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-21: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-21: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-28: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-04: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-11: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-09-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-23: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-27: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-18: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-25: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-15: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-22: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-30: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-13: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-20: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1702026-09-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 9 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 12 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 6 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 14 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 7 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
535Mar 2025Aug 2026Mar 2025 — avg 27 · peak 106Apr 2025 — avg 15 · peak 61May 2025 — avg 27 · peak 116Jun 2025 — avg 15 · peak 60Jul 2025 — avg 11 · peak 48Aug 2025 — avg 53 · peak 268Sep 2025 — avg 41 · peak 240Oct 2025 — avg 25 · peak 102Nov 2025 — avg 19 · peak 79Dec 2025 — avg 18 · peak 86Jan 2026 — avg 19 · peak 100Feb 2026 — avg 13 · peak 89Mar 2026 — avg 11 · peak 61Apr 2026 — avg 9 · peak 50May 2026 — avg 8 · peak 32Jun 2026 — avg 10 · peak 47Jul 2026 — avg 7 · peak 33Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 24
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$7.022025-03-132026-08-142025-03-13 — best price $17.992025-03-18 — best price $19.992025-03-21 — best price $19.992025-03-27 — best price $18.282025-04-08 — best price $17.992025-04-13 — best price $19.992025-08-15 — best price $8.952025-09-02 — best price $9.992025-10-14 — best price $9.992025-10-22 — best price $7.172025-10-28 — best price $7.142025-11-03 — best price $9.992025-11-05 — best price $8.452025-11-28 — best price $19.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-02-10 — best price $7.062026-02-16 — best price $8.992026-03-19 — best price $7.152026-03-26 — best price $8.992026-04-24 — best price $9.212026-06-24 — best price $8.152026-06-26 — best price $7.022026-07-09 — best price $8.992026-07-26 — best price $9.272026-08-07 — best price $9.272026-08-14 — best price $9.27
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

30
achievements tracked
26.4%
earned "Shot in the Dark"
3.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualSense Controller SupportFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5, PC (PlayStation)1,8785%31
Steam (Steam)3002%30

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FPSPvPDarkNoirCo-opFunnyPartyActionHorrorShooter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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