The Culling Of The Cows
Skip · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $0.99.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Value
- $0.62/hr
- Reviews
- 74% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0 Compatible, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was June 2021. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 125 in the 12 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 80 percent off still sits 102 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 36. With it, 41.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 47 percent on value. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Let Them Come ($7.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($0.99, scores 17).
1.6 hours to finish it, 3 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
38% start to 7% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Culling Of The Cows scores 41/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/297020/the-culling-of-the-cowsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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