The Culling Of The Cows

The Culling Of The Cows

Skip · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 36, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Cost per hour▼
$3.12/hr
Reviews▼
74% of 3,447
Genre rank
Top 56% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, 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

Main story
1.6h
To 100%
3.2h 2.0x the story
Achievements
5

Price and sales

Sales
126 on record
Typical cut
85% off
Steam low
$0.49 June 2021
Sale every
35d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $0.49 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
2 now
Cheaper than
72% of its genre
Better reviewed
40% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

38% start to 7% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 126 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 85 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 61 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Let Them Come ($7.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($0.99, scores 17).

More about The Culling Of The Cows

1.6 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 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

Holding it back
Cost per hour$3.12/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 93 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

I went vegan not for ethics but sheer terror - these cows outsmarted me and formed a union. Every click feels like Shakespeare with horns and zero mercy.
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 5.9hMay 2026Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Very weird game with a Nazi UFO. At least it has easy achievements, but I still wouldn't recommend this.
A Steam playerNot recommendedafter 6.4h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0 Compatible, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
The Culling Of The Cows scores 36/100 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/297020/the-culling-of-the-cows
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperDried Lemons
PublisherDried Lemons
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements5