How much revenue did The Culling Of The Cows make?

$265k–$711k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did The Culling Of The Cows sell?

Q: How many copies did The Culling Of The Cows sell?

193k to 313k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 193k–313k; $265k–$711k after Steam's cut $481k–$1.1M before the cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left The Culling Of The Cows out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Culling Of The Cows's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–142k

best case 156k (Ultimate Zombie Defense)

Games like The Culling Of The Cows

The middle of these games

≈ 29k–142k copies

≈ $172k–$276k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

4 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ultimate Zombie Defense at ≈ 119k–193k copies, ≈ $163k–$438k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Zombies (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Tower Defense, priced around $5.
The era: The games you compared span 2014 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 70 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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