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- Released: 2017
- Developer: Xaviant
- 58% of 8,046 reviews
- Genres: Action, Indie, Free To Play
- Platforms: Windows, Linux
Players highlight
- Crafted weapons can outperform guns
- Fast paced heart pounding action
- Pure skill and cunning matter
- Contemplative
- Dark
- Grim
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About The Culling
The closest matches to The Culling: Dying Light: Bad Blood, Z1 Battle Royale, Miscreated, Killing Floor, and Hurtworld. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If The Culling is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dying Light: Bad Blood, Z1 Battle Royale and Miscreated — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as contemplative, dark and grim, and single out its build customization and crafting. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
The Culling is a free-to-play battle royale action game developed and published by Xaviant that launched in 2017. Set on a remote island, it drops 16 contestants into a confined arena with 25 minutes to scavenge, craft weapons, build traps, and eliminate opponents in a last-survivor format. The mechanics center on build customization, a perk system, and skill-based combat where pure skill and cunning determine victory according to players. Crafted weapons can outperform guns, and tactical positioning and timing play crucial roles in engagements. Reviewers highlight the fast-paced, heart-pounding action alongside witty overseer commentary that adds personality to matches. The game runs in short sessions designed for quick competitive bursts, with an online co-op mode available. The current Steam review score sits at 58% positive based on over 8,000 reviews.
About The Culling: Battle Royale is back! In a remote island paradise, 16 contestants have 25 minutes to explore, scavenge items, craft weapons, build traps, hunt and kill each other. Only one will be crowned the winner, do you have the guts to survive?
Is The Culling worth buying?
Players are split
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 58% of 8,046 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- People who recommend it had played a median of 37 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 40 h before turning negative, so complaints are about the long run, not the first hours.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Crafted weapons can outperform guns
- Fast paced heart pounding action
- Pure skill and cunning matter
- Tactical positioning and timing
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“This game was the FIRST Battle Royal / Hunger Games product on the market when it first came out. It was a TRUE Gem, There were traps! and drones that dropped off loot! it was amazing.”
“The devs are stupid, they have selective hearing, and they don't care about the community. This game use to take skill and a bit of luck. Now it takes a lot of luck and no skill. Ever since people complained about the game being "too hard"…”
People who play it also play: Dying Light: Bad Blood, Z1 Battle Royale, Miscreated
Frequently asked about The Culling
Can I run it?
Does The Culling have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — The Culling supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Co-op).
What games are most similar to The Culling?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Culling are Dying Light: Bad Blood, Z1 Battle Royale, Miscreated.
Who developed The Culling?
The Culling was developed by Xaviant and published by Xaviant Games.