The Ship: Murder Party
Fair · Shooter · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.84/hr
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 5,941
- Critics
- 76 players 10 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 25% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.94 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.6h
- To 100%
- 4.1h 1.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 52 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 December 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 70% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
December 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 52 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 25 percent. It is better reviewed than 70 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Hand Simulator: Survival ($2.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats This Land Is My Land ($29.99, scores 14).
More about The Ship: Murder Party
76 from critics against 86 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 737 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
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What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
This game is such a hidden gem, coming up on 20th anniversary too, try to give this game a shot with friends!
2 more reviews
One of the best games ever made. 20 years ahead of its time. I still fondly reminisce the years of '06 to '14 when I was playing it with some mates. The Ship, TeamSpeak, pizza, and Coca-Cola from those old hard plastic 1.5 L bottles before they got force-softified by EU regulations. Going to lock 15 friends into a basement and force them to play it in 202X. Game has aged slightly poorly and is prone to crash (on my...
Thanks to this game, I created my first Steam account (not this one) roughly 18 years ago. I first saw it with my mother in a MediaMarkt or Saturn, and we decided to buy it because something about the game immediately caught our attention. To this day, I still think the idea behind the game's core concept is brilliant, and I naturally have a lot of nostalgia attached to this title. The graphics have obviously aged...
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About the game
The Ship is a murder mystery multiplayer.
Minimum specs
Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
The Ship: Murder Party scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2400/the-ship-murder-partyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 1, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.