Only with cunning, skill and a little luck will you be able to prevail and survive the deadly game of life and death that is The Culling. 

Unlike add-on modes in open-world survival games, The Culling redefines the battle royale genre by providing a tightly focused stand-alone experience that delivers incredible thrills and a competitive arena for players to duke it out. Only one will be crowned the winner. Do you have the guts to survive?

With only twenty minutes to scavenge, craft weapons, and hunt down the other contestants, The Culling provides a thrilling survival experience as the first standalone entry in the battle royale genre. Prepare for skill-testing, slaughter-filled matches as players give it their all to survive. Sixteen enter, but only one can come out alive.

Greetings Contestants!

The Culling has had a wild ride. Since the game’s original launch in March of 2016, more than 3 million of you have tested your resolve on the island, with nearly half that number joining the fray since The Culling: Origins became free to play on Xbox One last November.

The game’s servers have run continuously (with the stray outage here and there) for three years, but the time has come for us to announce that we will be taking The Culling offline on May 15th, 2019. While The Culling’s offline modes will remain available after that date, online play and associated features will not. To that end, the game’s store pages and in-app purchases will be disabled as soon as possible.

When we launched the Origins update and made the game free to play, our hope was that the revenue generated from in-app purchases would be enough to sustain our team and support ongoing development, but unfortunately that was not the case.

Even with thousands of active daily users, the revenue was only a fraction of what our dev team required to continue daily operations. As a result, we’ve been forced to reduce our team size, which renders us unable to provide ongoing support and updates that would allow the game to grow and thrive.

If there is a team out there who is interested in taking the reins from us and exploring the game’s potential, please contact us at info@xaviant.com. We think that with the proper resources and know-how in the free to play world, the right group could make great things happen.

While it’s sad for us to say goodbye, we want to offer a sincere and heartfelt thank you to everyone who has enjoyed the game, contributed feedback, and spent their hard-earned money to support our efforts over the years. The Culling has always been a labor of love, a learning experience, and an opportunity to pursue our passion for making games.

Josh Van Veld

Director of Operations

Xaviant

Game Features

• Intense 25 minute,16 player matches. Available in both solo and team modes.
• Sharpen your skills in the tutorial, or try your hand at the offline survival mode against waves of murderous robots.
• Battle it out in the lush island paradise of The Island or the intimate halls of Cul County Correctional.
• Gain levels and unlock more than one thousand customization items to help your contestant stick out from the pack.
• Choose your poison and pick from dozens of ranged and melee weapons.
• Turn up the action to 11 with Lightning Rounds.
• What’s a game show without events? Try your luck at Shake & Bake, Loot Piñata and more!
• Outfit your character with powerful perks and airdrops that could give you the upperhand in battle.
• Victory is even sweeter when it comes at the expense of your friends. Play in private matches and find out who on your friends list is the best.

Come on down to get some sunshine and fight for your life, as The Culling is available on Steam Early Access for $24.99.