Hotcakes: Only A Few People Are Winning In The Culling


Well technically nobody wins in that game.

I like looking at achievement statistics whenever I play games on Xbox or Playstation or Steam, it lets me know things like how many players actually booted up the game and how far they got. I started looking at The Culling’s statistics because I wanted to see just how much the few players who bought it are tolerating the experience.

To start off, The Culling is a 16 player battle royale game with one winner (or two if you play duos). That means that for solo matches you have 1/16th of the population that can win any game or 6.25%. For The Culling, the number of people who have actually won a single match comprises 2.9% of those who own the game. Now this sounds like a low number, but consider this. According to Xbox achievement statistics only 27.89% of players have actually played an online solo match.

So 27% of The Culling players have actually played an online solo match, of which less than a third of those players will continue playing long enough to rack up 10 matches and less than one fifth will be successful enough to rack up 10 kills over their “career.” 74% of the people who have played an offline match have actually won it.

  • 42% have completed the tutorial.
  • 12% have played an online match of which
  • 9% have actually won an offline match.
  • 8% have played 10 online matches.
  • 7% have killed three people in a single online match.
  • .48% have 100 career kills.
  • .29% reach 20 hours of time alive in online matches.

It seems like The Culling has bigger problems than the 10 day limit (which is actually 25) because 92% of the player base never hit that number period, let alone in a single day.