The Game Census
The Culling Of The Cows cover art

The Culling Of The Cows

Dried Lemons · 2014-05-09

Steam

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 09, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter / tower defence game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquizing schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.

The Culling Of The Cows is a 2014 Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy game priced at $4.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (74% of 3442 reviews).

0
playing now
74%
positive of 3.4k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
33/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 13:00 UTC (census sample)

With his dusty old 12 gauge at his side and god at his back, Sammy isn’t going to be taking too kindly to the infectious chaos of the big city’s leaking its way out into wild country. When all the lunacy started Sammy consulted God on what he should do, and the response was. KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!!!!(Storyline via IGDB)

Trailer

The Culling Of The Cows trailer thumbnail

The Culling of The Cows Trailer [HD]

≈502,084 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 8% of 27,701 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 86k–207k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,447 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2021-06-24) · bundled 14×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620182026Week of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

402026-09-15 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 4 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
880May 2014Apr 2026May 2014 — avg 1 · peak 5Sep 2014 — avg 2 · peak 8Jan 2015 — avg 35 · peak 170May 2015 — avg 39 · peak 653Sep 2015 — avg 9 · peak 21Jan 2016 — avg 25 · peak 74May 2016 — avg 8 · peak 22Sep 2016 — avg 7 · peak 36Jan 2017 — avg 8 · peak 46May 2017 — avg 8 · peak 22Sep 2017 — avg 44 · peak 543Jan 2018 — avg 7 · peak 30May 2018 — avg 11 · peak 246Sep 2018 — avg 21 · peak 396Jan 2019 — avg 6 · peak 108May 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Sep 2019 — avg 1 · peak 23Jan 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6May 2020 — avg 3 · peak 205Sep 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Jan 2021 — avg 1 · peak 13May 2021 — avg 2 · peak 7Sep 2021 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2022 — avg 5 · peak 56May 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Sep 2022 — avg 36 · peak 622Jan 2023 — avg 17 · peak 396May 2023 — avg 16 · peak 154Nov 2023 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2024 — avg 1 · peak 12Feb 2026 — avg 10 · peak 65Apr 2026 — avg 2 · peak 28
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$12.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-172015-01-01 — best price $1.942015-02-27 — best price $6.792015-04-24 — best price $2.992015-08-25 — best price $2.992015-10-31 — best price $12.992015-12-22 — best price $1.292016-03-29 — best price $12.992016-07-18 — best price $2.462016-09-05 — best price $2.392016-11-21 — best price $2.602016-12-27 — best price $1.292017-03-26 — best price $12.992017-07-06 — best price $12.992017-11-21 — best price $1.302018-01-09 — best price $12.992018-04-20 — best price $6.992018-07-06 — best price $6.992018-10-15 — best price $6.992018-12-15 — best price $3.062019-01-14 — best price $9.992019-03-28 — best price $6.992019-08-05 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-03-06 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $4.992020-12-01 — best price $4.992021-05-03 — best price $4.992021-11-15 — best price $4.992022-04-18 — best price $4.992022-09-26 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-08-21 — best price $4.992024-01-22 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-06-09 — best price $4.992025-11-24 — best price $4.992026-04-27 — best price $4.992026-08-17 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
38.1%
earned "Tutorial Complete"
21.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2016-04-22 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)15,80724%5

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

2DGoreIndieActionCasualShooterViolentZombiesStrategyAdventure

Census log

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

Players also track

Star Control®: OriginsUnclaimed WorldLantern ForgeSurvivalistMedieval Kingdom WarsRatty CattyCookies vs. Claus

Similarity via IGDB.

Official site ↗Discord ↗Reddit ↗Speedruns ↗