Games like The Culling
If The Culling is your kind of game, the closest matches are Call of Duty®: Warzone™, Dying Light: Bad Blood and Back 4 Blood — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, dark and grim. 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.
Get personalized picks →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?
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Call of Duty®: Warzone™
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Top pick for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Culling.
Welcome to Call of Duty®: Warzone™, the massive free-to-play combat arena. Experience thrilling modes & new gameplay features across Endgame (for a limited time), Battle Royale, Black Ops Royale, and Resurgence.
Dying Light: Bad Blood
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Shares skill based combat and an intense mood with The Culling.
Second-strongest match for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Culling.
Enter a zombie-infested area and compete as one of 12 players to become the only survivor - or make a team and fight for survival together.
Back 4 Blood
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Third-strongest match for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Culling.
Back 4 Blood is a thrilling cooperative first-person shooter from the creators of the critically acclaimed Left 4 Dead franchise. Experience the intense 4 player co-op narrative campaign, competitive multiplayer as human or Ridden, and frenetic gameplay that keeps you in the action.
Darwin Project
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Ranked #4 for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
In Darwin Project, ten inmates must survive the elements, track each other, fight, craft tools, and use their social skills to be the last one standing. It's a unique take on battle royale with a Show Director to influence the match and Spectator Interactions to create a one-of-a-kind game show.
Hide Or Die
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Shares an intense mood with The Culling.
Ranked #5 for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Culling.
Hide or Die is a fast paced asymmetrical multiplayer horror game with a focus on mobility, verticality, and hiding. Stay hidden or face certain death.
Last Year: The Nightmare
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Ranked #6 for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Culling.
Serial killers are chasing you as you try to escape from your high school. You play as one of The Teenagers on the run, or play as one of The Killers doing the hunting. Last Year: The Nightmare feels like surviving through a haunted house with your friends.
Dead by Daylight
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Shares a dark mood with The Culling.
Ranked #7 for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The Culling.
Trapped forever in a realm of eldritch evil where even death is not an escape, four determined Survivors face a bloodthirsty Killer in a vicious game of nerve and wits. Pick a side and step into a world of tension and terror with horror gaming's best asymmetrical multiplayer.
Serious Sam 4
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Ranked #8 for The Culling fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
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DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
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Reviewers of The Culling cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Culling.
Then, there was fire. Re-experience the critically acclaimed, genre-defining game that started it all. Beautifully remastered, return to Lordran in stunning high-definition detail running at 60fps.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS
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Reviewers of The Culling cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Culling.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS, the high-stakes winner-take-all shooter that started the Battle Royale craze, is free-to-play! Drop into diverse maps, loot unique weapons and supplies, and survive in an ever-shrinking zone where every turn could be your last.
CUBG: Car Unknown's Battlegrounds
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Reviewers of The Culling cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Culling.
New survival by battle cars of war with many guns in battleground royal 3D pixel
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with The Culling.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Free To Play with The Culling.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Culling.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Culling.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Free To Play with The Culling.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Lichdom: Battlemage
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Another title from Xaviant, the studio behind The Culling. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
Play the first game where the Mage is a total badass!
The Culling 2
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Another title from Xaviant, the studio behind The Culling. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
The Culling returns to take Battle Royale to the next level. Real-world weapon ballistics. A strategically brutal melee combat system. Perks to customize your play style. Fifty contestants will drop in and compete for glory, but only one will be crowned the winner. Do you have what it takes?
Don't Die, Minerva!
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Another title from Xaviant, the studio behind The Culling. Shares Action and Indie with The Culling.
Help Minerva survive her adventure in a haunted house full of sinister ghosts! This spooky rogue-lite features heaps of procedural dungeons, ghosts, and loot.
Frequently asked about The Culling
- 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 Call of Duty®: Warzone™, Dying Light: Bad Blood, Back 4 Blood.
- Who developed The Culling?
- The Culling was developed by Xaviant and published by Xaviant Games.
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