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The Ship: Murder Party cover art

The Ship: Murder Party

Outerlight Ltd. · Blazing Griffin · 2006-07-11

Steam

ActionIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 11, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Ship is a murder mystery multiplayer.

The Ship: Murder Party is a 2006 Action, Indie and RPG game priced at $9.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 5950 reviews).

6
playing now
86%
positive of 5.9k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (26 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 03:00 UTC (census sample)

The Ship is a first-person shooter video game developed by Outerlight using Valve's Source engine. The game was released on 11 July 2006, on Steam with retail distribution in Europe and Australia in September, and 10 April 2007, for North America. A playable concept for The Ship was released as a modification for the game Half-Life in 2004.

Trailer

The Ship: Murder Party trailer thumbnail

The Ship: Murder Party | PC GAMEPLAY | HD 1440P

≈413,105 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 29 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 38% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 6% of 28,039 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Estimated sales: 238k–475k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,942 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at IndieGala Store (2015-11-16) · bundled 11×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920182026Week of 2018-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

902026-09-16 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 19:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 18:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 06:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 13:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
3182Jul 2012Jun 2026Jul 2012 — avg 83 · peak 186Dec 2012 — avg 41 · peak 156May 2013 — avg 27 · peak 85Oct 2013 — avg 19 · peak 67Mar 2014 — avg 32 · peak 94Aug 2014 — avg 62 · peak 235Jan 2015 — avg 100 · peak 252Jun 2015 — avg 125 · peak 767Nov 2015 — avg 53 · peak 186Apr 2016 — avg 42 · peak 152Sep 2016 — avg 26 · peak 74Feb 2017 — avg 20 · peak 61Jul 2017 — avg 21 · peak 63Dec 2017 — avg 17 · peak 65May 2018 — avg 11 · peak 38Oct 2018 — avg 101 · peak 2,708Mar 2019 — avg 10 · peak 54Aug 2019 — avg 11 · peak 40Jan 2020 — avg 14 · peak 54Jun 2020 — avg 11 · peak 52Nov 2020 — avg 11 · peak 59Apr 2021 — avg 9 · peak 48Sep 2021 — avg 23 · peak 239Feb 2022 — avg 4 · peak 26Jul 2022 — avg 4 · peak 26Dec 2022 — avg 4 · peak 22May 2023 — avg 3 · peak 16Oct 2023 — avg 4 · peak 15Mar 2024 — avg 3 · peak 21Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 17Jan 2025 — avg 4 · peak 25Sep 2025 — avg 3 · peak 17Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12Jun 2026 — avg 2 · peak 21
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.99$0.992015-01-012026-08-032015-01-01 — best price $4.992015-04-13 — best price $2.492015-09-03 — best price $1.992015-11-25 — best price $3.392016-04-04 — best price $9.992016-08-29 — best price $9.992016-12-25 — best price $9.992017-05-01 — best price $4.002017-12-21 — best price $4.992018-07-17 — best price $7.992019-01-10 — best price $2.492019-07-09 — best price $9.992020-03-23 — best price $3.392020-06-01 — best price $8.282020-06-24 — best price $8.282020-10-22 — best price $1.872021-01-10 — best price $8.382021-02-01 — best price $9.992021-02-23 — best price $9.992021-03-17 — best price $8.382021-04-09 — best price $2.492021-05-04 — best price $9.992021-05-26 — best price $8.382021-07-08 — best price $2.242021-10-29 — best price $7.342022-02-24 — best price $3.742022-07-08 — best price $7.892023-01-11 — best price $2.542023-08-28 — best price $9.992024-03-14 — best price $1.502024-10-02 — best price $9.992025-05-14 — best price $2.252025-12-02 — best price $9.992026-08-03 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

103132026-06-02 — 33 pageviews2026-06-06 — 22 pageviews2026-06-10 — 29 pageviews2026-06-14 — 25 pageviews2026-06-18 — 26 pageviews2026-06-22 — 34 pageviews2026-06-26 — 23 pageviews2026-06-30 — 33 pageviews2026-07-04 — 28 pageviews2026-07-08 — 28 pageviews2026-07-12 — 20 pageviews2026-07-16 — 30 pageviews2026-07-20 — 26 pageviews2026-07-24 — 17 pageviews2026-07-28 — 36 pageviews2026-08-01 — 32 pageviews2026-08-05 — 38 pageviews2026-08-09 — 25 pageviews2026-08-13 — 34 pageviews2026-08-17 — 28 pageviews2026-08-21 — 24 pageviews2026-08-25 — 22 pageviews2026-08-29 — 20 pageviews2026-09-02 — 26 pageviews2026-09-06 — 38 pageviews2026-09-10 — 24 pageviews2026-09-14 — 27 pageviews2026-09-18 — 28 pageviews2026-09-22 — 23 pageviews2026-09-26 — 20 pageviews2026-09-30 — 23 pageviews2026-10-04 — 31 pageviews2026-10-08 — 37 pageviews2026-10-11 — 19 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPSteam Trading CardsValve Anti-Cheat enabledFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Japanese

Where its players are

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

Player tags

FPSRPGFunnyIndieActionComedyMysteryShooterStealthAssassin

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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