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Chop Goblins cover art

Chop Goblins

David Szymanski · 2022-12-12

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 12, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 22, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 16, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

A fast-paced micro FPS in which The Chop Goblins are loose, chopping their way through time itself in their ravenous quest for cheese. And THE CHOP WILL NOT STOP.

2
playing now
97%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 UTC (census sample)

David Szymanski is an American video game developer. He is best known for having developed the games Dusk, Iron Lung, and Gloomwood.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 245 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~31/week).
  • · Review velocity up 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (875 reviews).
  • · Top 20% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 64k–145k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,220 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at Steam (2026-03-19) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 8 of 16 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
86586520222026Week of 2022-12-01: 865 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-08-11 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-14 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 02:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 01:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-24 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-26 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-30 05:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$1.992022-12-122026-08-102022-12-12 — best price $4.492023-03-16 — best price $4.242023-04-21 — best price $4.242023-06-29 — best price $4.242023-07-21 — best price $4.242023-09-12 — best price $4.242023-11-13 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-01-25 — best price $4.992024-03-11 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-04-22 — best price $4.992024-06-17 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-09-23 — best price $4.992024-11-11 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-10 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-03-31 — best price $4.992025-05-12 — best price $4.992025-06-23 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $4.992025-08-11 — best price $4.992025-10-06 — best price $4.992026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-02-06 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-20 — best price $4.992026-06-01 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-10 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.7k1922026-05-30 — 1,090 pageviews2026-06-02 — 1,388 pageviews2026-06-05 — 948 pageviews2026-06-08 — 861 pageviews2026-06-11 — 776 pageviews2026-06-14 — 680 pageviews2026-06-17 — 484 pageviews2026-06-20 — 481 pageviews2026-06-23 — 372 pageviews2026-06-26 — 388 pageviews2026-06-29 — 388 pageviews2026-07-02 — 388 pageviews2026-07-05 — 384 pageviews2026-07-08 — 464 pageviews2026-07-11 — 315 pageviews2026-07-14 — 309 pageviews2026-07-17 — 293 pageviews2026-07-20 — 391 pageviews2026-07-23 — 270 pageviews2026-07-26 — 313 pageviews2026-07-29 — 268 pageviews2026-08-01 — 352 pageviews2026-08-04 — 282 pageviews2026-08-07 — 220 pageviews2026-08-10 — 287 pageviews2026-08-13 — 234 pageviews2026-08-16 — 271 pageviews2026-08-19 — 195 pageviews2026-08-22 — 264 pageviews2026-08-25 — 222 pageviews2026-08-27 — 233 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
59.9%
earned "Ionian and Doric Just Don't Cut It"
24.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsCamera ComfortAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed InputStereo SoundSteam CloudSteam Leaderboards2 DLC

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,78627%13
Switch (Nintendo)50%0

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

Player tags

FPSGoreFunnyShort1990'sActionComedyShooterColorfulFast-Paced

Census log

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

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