Charlie Murder
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (11%); after 7h it's 1 in 50 (2%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The opening is criticised less than in 89% of games we track.
- At least 17% of players who start reach the ending.
- The biggest drop-off is between “I Gave Them a Show” (Defeat King Tepes) and “I'm Cemetery Go Go Go” (Defeat Circe Bathory in St. Sanders Cemetery): from 90% to 66% of starters.
- 86% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 3,017 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 8.2h for positive, 5.4h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (86.3% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- I Brought Down a Giant Defeat the Boss Monster. 100%
- I Gave Them a Show Defeat King Tepes. 90% −10
- I'm Cemetery Go Go Go Defeat Circe Bathory in St. Sanders Cemetery. Most players quit here 66% −23
- I'm an Exorcist Defeat Beelzebaal. 57% −9
- I Battled a Ghost Defeat Lord Mortimer's phantom. 52% −5
- I Earned an Organ Defeat the Gory Mound. 43% −9
- I Removed a Stain Defeat the Lady in Tatters. 36% −8
- I Cut the Supply Chain Defeat the Infested Roadie. 28% −8
- I'm a Reverse Repairman Defeat the Wretched Electronics. 26% −2
- I'm the Hunter Defeat Vlad The Eternally Cold. 24% −2
- I Can Destroy The World Get the bad ending. ≥17% −8
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (30)
story milestone ending side
- I Brought Down a Giant Defeat the Boss Monster. 100%
- I Got a Tattoo Get your first tattoo! You look great. 93%
- I Gave Them a Show Defeat King Tepes. 90%
- I'm Cemetery Go Go Go Defeat Circe Bathory in St. Sanders Cemetery. 66%
- I'm an Exorcist Defeat Beelzebaal. 57%
- I'm a Brewmaster Craft a beer. 54%
- I Battled a Ghost Defeat Lord Mortimer's phantom. 52%
- I Earned an Organ Defeat the Gory Mound. 43%
- I Like it Better This Way Dye some clothes. How does that look? 40%
- I Fixed Your Heart Resuscitate a downed bandmate. 36%
- I Removed a Stain Defeat the Lady in Tatters. 36%
- I Melt Your Face a Thousand Ways Poison, burn, melt, shock, explode, and shatter your foes. 34%
- I'm a Uniter Host a team attack, join a team attack. 34%
- I Have An Army Unlock an alternate band from the Sceniverse. 31%
- I Cut the Supply Chain Defeat the Infested Roadie. 28%
- I'm a Reverse Repairman Defeat the Wretched Electronics. 26%
- I'm the Hunter Defeat Vlad The Eternally Cold. 24%
- I'm a Serious Musician Get 100% on any music minigame part. 23%
- I'm All Inked Up Get ALL tattoos. Now you're a mage. 20%
- I Collected a Being Accumulate Smockula's Body. 18%
- I Can Destroy The World Get the bad ending. 17%
- I Steal Your Soul Rob 7 enemies of their souls. 14%
- I Can Save the World Get the good ending. 14%
- I'll Give Birth to a King Eat a heart while in female form. 8.3%
- I Made A Garden of Skulls Make a cluster of 5 healing head totems. 6.5%
- I'm The King of Rock and Roll Get the good ending (Chaos playthrough) 5.4%
- I Demolished You With The 80's Crush an enemy beneath an arcade machine. 5.2%
- I'm All Sorts of Famous Get the good ending (Total Anarchy playthrough) 3.7%
- I'm a Knife-Wielding Lunatic Sever some limbs while dual-wielding machetes. 2.9%
- I'm Thorough Find all relics. 1.9%