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Murderous Pursuits cover art

Murderous Pursuits

Blazing Griffin · 2018-04-26

Steam

ActionIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Apr 26, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Murderous Pursuits is a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, all while avoiding witnesses.

Murderous Pursuits is an Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2018, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (64% of 2809 reviews).

4
playing now
64%
positive of 2.8k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
49/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$9.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (79 reviews).
  • · Top 9% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 70k–168k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,808 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GamersGate$3.00-70%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.39 at GamersGate (2022-01-11) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 11 of 20 observed days · $1.61 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
555520182026Week of 2018-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-15 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 3 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 14:00 — 8 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 05:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$100.00$1.492018-04-202026-10-122018-04-20 — best price $100.002018-11-01 — best price $19.992019-04-25 — best price $5.002019-11-19 — best price $9.992020-04-08 — best price $9.992020-06-07 — best price $8.282020-07-10 — best price $9.992020-07-31 — best price $9.992020-08-23 — best price $8.892020-09-22 — best price $8.892020-10-18 — best price $9.992020-11-09 — best price $9.992020-12-06 — best price $9.992020-12-27 — best price $7.492021-01-25 — best price $8.382021-02-14 — best price $9.992021-03-08 — best price $8.382021-03-31 — best price $9.992021-04-23 — best price $8.382021-05-14 — best price $8.382021-06-05 — best price $8.382021-09-09 — best price $2.242021-11-25 — best price $7.492022-02-04 — best price $8.382022-06-20 — best price $2.242022-11-22 — best price $4.992023-03-20 — best price $2.542023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-04-01 — best price $2.552024-10-02 — best price $9.992025-04-16 — best price $2.252025-09-30 — best price $1.882026-06-04 — best price $9.992026-10-12 — best price $3.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
18%
earned "Blind-Eyed Mutton Shunter"
8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportStatsSteam Leaderboards2 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2018-04-26, latest 2018-09-27 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)5,2616%145

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

Co-opIndieActionMysteryStealthAssassinStrategySimulationMultiplayerThird Person

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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