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Chop Goblins

David Szymanski · 2022-12-12

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

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.

Chop Goblins is an Action, Indie game released in 2022, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive (97% of 3228 reviews) sentiment.

0
playing now
97%
positive of 3.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
78/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (27 downloads)
4.92★
PlayStation Store rating (61 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 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.

Trailer

Chop Goblins trailer thumbnail

Chop Goblins Gameplay

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 0 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 9% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-29

Estimated sales: 65k–145k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,228 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.64 at Fanatical (2026-09-14) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 7 of 14 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

602026-09-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 3 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 4 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 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

1.6k1582026-05-30 — 1,090 pageviews2026-06-03 — 1,092 pageviews2026-06-07 — 1,029 pageviews2026-06-11 — 776 pageviews2026-06-15 — 589 pageviews2026-06-19 — 456 pageviews2026-06-23 — 372 pageviews2026-06-27 — 454 pageviews2026-07-01 — 290 pageviews2026-07-05 — 384 pageviews2026-07-09 — 334 pageviews2026-07-13 — 307 pageviews2026-07-17 — 293 pageviews2026-07-21 — 299 pageviews2026-07-25 — 271 pageviews2026-07-29 — 268 pageviews2026-08-02 — 349 pageviews2026-08-06 — 218 pageviews2026-08-10 — 287 pageviews2026-08-14 — 192 pageviews2026-08-18 — 251 pageviews2026-08-22 — 264 pageviews2026-08-26 — 234 pageviews2026-08-30 — 245 pageviews2026-09-03 — 208 pageviews2026-09-07 — 241 pageviews2026-09-11 — 210 pageviews2026-09-15 — 178 pageviews2026-09-19 — 195 pageviews2026-09-23 — 211 pageviews2026-09-27 — 220 pageviews2026-10-01 — 209 pageviews2026-10-05 — 196 pageviews2026-10-08 — 194 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

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2023-03-13, latest 2023-05-05 (Steam store data)

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.

Where its players are

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

Player tags

FPSGoreFunnyShort1990'sActionComedyShooterColorfulFast-Paced

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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