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Chicken Police - Paint it RED!

The Wild Gentlemen · THQ Nordic Mobile · 2020-11-05

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Mar 30, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Jun 29, 2021 (iOS), Nov 05, 2020 (Mac), Nov 05, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Nov 05, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 05, 2020 (Xbox One)

A wild tale of love, death, chickens, and redemption! Chicken Police is a buddy-cop noir adventure with a carefully crafted world, a gritty story, and absurd humor. The game mixes classic adventure games with visual novel-style storytelling, presented in a beak-droppingly unique art style.

Chicken Police - Paint it RED! is an Adventure and Indie game released in 2020, estimated to have 100,000 .. 200,000 owners, priced at $19.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (95% of 2532 reviews).

1
playing now
94%
positive of 2.5k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
critic score (4 outlets, IGDB)
88/100
IGDB user rating (18 ratings)
4.42★
PlayStation Store rating (686 ratings)
6h
to beat · rushed 4h · completionist 8h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Chicken Police: Paint it Red! is a point-and-click adventure game developed by The Wild Gentlemen. It was released by HandyGames on November 5, 2020 for multiple platforms. Players control a burnt-out cop who is investigating a crime in a city of anthropomorphic animals.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 81 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (309 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 28,764 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 51k–115k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,549 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$4.99-75%
Microsoft Store$4.99-75%
GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.84 at Gamer Thor (2025-11-22) · bundled 7×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 74 of 141 observed days · $1.15 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
30330320202026Week of 2020-11-01: 303 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
423Nov 2020Aug 2026Nov 2020 — avg 42 · peak 163Jan 2021 — avg 13 · peak 61Mar 2021 — avg 5 · peak 15May 2021 — avg 7 · peak 24Jul 2021 — avg 6 · peak 21Sep 2021 — avg 8 · peak 30Nov 2021 — avg 10 · peak 31Jan 2022 — avg 8 · peak 24Mar 2022 — avg 4 · peak 14May 2022 — avg 18 · peak 59Jul 2022 — avg 11 · peak 30Sep 2022 — avg 7 · peak 22Nov 2022 — avg 6 · peak 19Jan 2023 — avg 8 · peak 24Mar 2023 — avg 6 · peak 17May 2023 — avg 5 · peak 13Jul 2023 — avg 8 · peak 26Sep 2023 — avg 6 · peak 19Nov 2023 — avg 6 · peak 15Jan 2024 — avg 7 · peak 19Mar 2024 — avg 6 · peak 18May 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Jul 2024 — avg 6 · peak 18Sep 2024 — avg 4 · peak 11Nov 2024 — avg 7 · peak 30Jan 2025 — avg 7 · peak 20Mar 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13May 2025 — avg 16 · peak 64Jul 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Sep 2025 — avg 4 · peak 10Nov 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11Jan 2026 — avg 6 · peak 19Mar 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 12Jul 2026 — avg 4 · peak 15Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 13
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$3.862020-11-052026-10-142020-11-05 — best price $14.952020-12-10 — best price $17.882021-02-08 — best price $17.882021-03-15 — best price $19.992021-04-21 — best price $19.992021-05-21 — best price $19.992021-06-28 — best price $19.992021-08-15 — best price $14.292021-10-07 — best price $19.992021-11-24 — best price $14.992022-01-06 — best price $14.692022-03-01 — best price $12.592022-04-20 — best price $8.492022-06-28 — best price $19.992022-08-19 — best price $11.992022-11-01 — best price $19.992022-12-18 — best price $11.792023-02-18 — best price $15.892023-05-01 — best price $15.792023-07-12 — best price $19.992023-10-06 — best price $9.992023-12-15 — best price $10.002024-03-20 — best price $9.992024-06-01 — best price $18.992024-08-23 — best price $19.992024-10-14 — best price $7.432024-12-05 — best price $10.002025-03-06 — best price $7.502025-04-28 — best price $5.802025-08-12 — best price $14.372025-11-21 — best price $3.862026-02-04 — best price $6.992026-05-14 — best price $4.992026-07-23 — best price $19.992026-09-12 — best price $19.992026-10-07 — best price $19.992026-10-14 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3462026-06-01 — 14 pageviews2026-06-05 — 20 pageviews2026-06-09 — 8 pageviews2026-06-13 — 15 pageviews2026-06-17 — 12 pageviews2026-06-21 — 13 pageviews2026-06-25 — 20 pageviews2026-06-29 — 20 pageviews2026-07-03 — 34 pageviews2026-07-07 — 18 pageviews2026-07-11 — 21 pageviews2026-07-15 — 13 pageviews2026-07-19 — 27 pageviews2026-07-23 — 12 pageviews2026-07-27 — 13 pageviews2026-07-31 — 15 pageviews2026-08-04 — 19 pageviews2026-08-08 — 22 pageviews2026-08-12 — 11 pageviews2026-08-16 — 10 pageviews2026-08-20 — 11 pageviews2026-08-24 — 15 pageviews2026-08-28 — 8 pageviews2026-09-01 — 14 pageviews2026-09-05 — 22 pageviews2026-09-09 — 8 pageviews2026-09-13 — 11 pageviews2026-09-17 — 14 pageviews2026-09-21 — 6 pageviews2026-09-25 — 13 pageviews2026-09-29 — 9 pageviews2026-10-03 — 24 pageviews2026-10-07 — 20 pageviews2026-10-11 — 15 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
44.2%
earned "For the old times sake"
22.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsAdjustable Text SizeCustom Volume ControlsMouse Only OptionStereo SoundSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Hungarian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2020-11-05, latest 2021-09-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)52648%31

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

CatsNoirCrimeNaturePuzzleClickerAdventureDetectiveDark HumorStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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