Murderous Pursuits

Murderous Pursuits

Skip · Multiplayer · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 7 of 8 sales

It scores 14, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Cost per hour
$4.76/hr
Reviews▼
64% of 2,805
Critics
63 players 1 higher
Genre rank
Top 78% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Reviews

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
2.1h
Achievements
145

Price and sales

Sales
44 on record
Typical cut
70% off
Steam low
$1.99 December 2021
Sale every
51d last October 2026
All-time low $1.39 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Cheaper than
34% of its genre
Better reviewed
18% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

18% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 44 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, XERA: Survival (free, scores 17) beats it on value, while it beats Beyond The Wire ($9.99, scores 10).

More about Murderous Pursuits

Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 163 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 43 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.99 (70% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.

Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
MonetizationNone
Checked: no in-game purchases or loot boxes. That earns a small credit unless Steam lists in-app purchases
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Refunds3 of 118 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

the game is good but the screen is not full and most of time play with AI not easy to join with rea; players
JinJuBobaRecommendedafter 12hFeb 2025Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GTX 600 series or equivalent, 11 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Murderous Pursuits scores 14/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/638070/murderous-pursuits
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+1
Critics63
Players64
Metacritic critics · 2,805 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperBlazing Griffin
PublisherBlazing Griffin
GenreMultiplayer
Released2018
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements145