How much revenue did The Culling Of The Cows make?

$265k–$712k 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 314k copies, based on its 3k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 193k–314k; $265k–$712k after Steam's cut $482k–$1.1M before Steam's cut; from 3k reviews (Mostly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid The Culling Of The Cows and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including The Culling Of The Cows's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 29k–143k

best case 156k (Ultimate Zombie Defense)

Games like The Culling Of The Cows

A typical game among these

≈ 29k–143k copies

≈ $172k–$276k after Steam's cut

from ~1k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Ultimate Zombie Defense at ≈ 119k–194k copies, ≈ $163k–$439k after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Tower Defense (7 of 8) and Zombies (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Zombies + Tower Defense, priced around $5.
When they shipped: The similar games 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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Zombie Builder Defense 2018	Est. copies ≈ 16k–25k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue Free	Free	513 reviews Mixed	ActionZombies
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