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Charlie Murder
It’s a punk rock apocalypse! Team up with your friends to lead embattled punk rock band Charlie Murder in their epic quest to save the world from rival death metalers Gore Quaffer and their legions of evil.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
36 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“10/10 My personal favorite Beat 'em up. Combos that feel nice customization is also really cool love that you can swap stats on stuff if you don't want to ditch/stop wearing it. Played on the xbox360 arcade growing up…”
“this is a childhood game for me, i used to always play this game on my xbox 360 as a kid and it STAYS as my favorite xbox arcade game, the game is so visually appealing and entertaining the whole time, i highly…”
“It's like if you put Sid Vicious in charge of developing Streets of Rage. That is to say, it RULES. Now, for the long-winded review. I grew up in the 2000's. It was a darker time, thematically. Creepypastas were all the…”
13 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“No better bonding experience for a band than during an apocalypse Definitely recommend”
“Played it for the first time ever recently with friends in coop, wasn't sure what to expect. We couldn't put it down until it was over. Great game, surprisingly deep RPG mechanics for a brawler, very similar game to the…”
“best game ever and super fun with friends.”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Ancient game from the xbox 360 era, still holds up great, unfortunately the Steam playerbase is nonexistent, recommend grabbing a friend or 2 and playing this, the music mini games are also kinda fun not to mention the…”
“This game is filled to the brim with garage band energy/personality. The art style and OST are amazing and really fit the grungy and chaotic vibe of the game. The game is a beat em up so it does get repetitive at times…”
“This is my fav game, I've played it over and over again since it came out on xbox360 and will always come back for a nice refresher. the arcade like gameplay is very fun and the non-stop enemies will always leave you…”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“this is a childhood game for me, i used to always play this game on my xbox 360 as a kid and it STAYS as my favorite xbox arcade game, the game is so visually appealing and entertaining the whole time, i highly…”
“This game is filled to the brim with garage band energy/personality. The art style and OST are amazing and really fit the grungy and chaotic vibe of the game. The game is a beat em up so it does get repetitive at times…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“One of the best games ever, in childhood memory and present day experience. It still never manages to get old.”
“This is my fav game, I've played it over and over again since it came out on xbox360 and will always come back for a nice refresher. the arcade like gameplay is very fun and the non-stop enemies will always leave you…”
“genuinely such a good game and i 100% recommend it! I like that it's mulitplayer as well, and the soundtrack is good and it's just a fun and addicting game overall.”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is so much fun and has a good amount of content. I would say its similar to Castle Crashers but it's more complex in the fact that each character has their own move set and the alternate versions of each…”
“The games really fun, I like the style of it and the whole game in general. The only thing I don’t like is that multiplayer with friends doesn’t work cuz every time I play with a friend the whole game crashes”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“LOVED THIS GAME SINCE A LIL MFF. ONLY PROBLEM IS CONNECTING XBOX CONTROLLER IT FREEZES SO SPAM WAIT FOR RESPOND”
“The games really fun, I like the style of it and the whole game in general. The only thing I don’t like is that multiplayer with friends doesn’t work cuz every time I play with a friend the whole game crashes”
“i love this buggy game”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is filled to the brim with garage band energy/personality. The art style and OST are amazing and really fit the grungy and chaotic vibe of the game. The game is a beat em up so it does get repetitive at times…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Love this game, very fun either by yourself or with a group of friends (or one) :D I'm glad I got to experience this game back on the 360 and now on PC <3”
— a player, Steam review · 17 hrs played“pretty funny game, even the story had me interested i remember playing this back in the xbox 360, fondest memories in that system a really charming game, thanks SKA”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Fantastic game, I had many hours on this game on my old Xbox 360. It's just a shame multiplayer is so bad on PC. This game badly needs remastered. If it was I would gladly dump countless hours into it again. That being said, It's still a great single player experience.…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Deck Verified!
We have just been informed that Charlie Murder passed all the certification tests, and is now officially Verified for Steam Deck! The game runs exactly as you would expect it to - it's the same native
02242022
Just one note today: - Update to latest FNA, includes various improvements and a fix for specific audio filters
09282021
- Update to FNA 21.10 (technically releasing Friday, but eh) - Mostly to work around a Steam Deck OpenGL driver bug, but dramatically improves Vulkan/D3D11 support along the way
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | Action · Beat 'em up · Indie · RPG · Adventure · Co-op · Gore · Great Soundtrack · 2D · 4 Player Local · Online Co-Op · Violent (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Japanese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Official site | http://charliemurder.ska-studios.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz or equivalent Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable) Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: SDL_GameController devices fully supported