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Last Man Standing vs The Culling

Last Man Standing is an FPS mmorpg game from Free Reign Entertainment (2017) while The Culling is an FPS open-world game from Xaviant (2017).

Last Man Standing

2017 · Free Reign Entertainment

5.8GamingPickz Score

Not listed

Steam: Mixed

The Culling

2017 · Xaviant

5.5GamingPickz Score

Not listed

Steam: Mixed

What each one is

Steam files Last Man Standing under FPS and Mmorpg. In contrast, it files The Culling under FPS and Open-World.

Last Man Standing

The Ultimate BATTLE ROYALE! Sharpen your skills and kill everyone in your way as you hunt for guns, gear and glory in a massive battlefield where only ONE can be crowned the LAST MAN STANDING. Earn cash prizes in a monthly competitions,

Description from its Steam store page

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?

Description from its Steam store page

At a glance

Last Man StandingThe Culling
GamingPickz Score5.8/105.5/10
Steam ratingMixed (61%, 17,338)Mixed (57%, 17,224)
Critic aggregateNo aggregateNo aggregate
PriceNot listedNot listed
Install size10 GB8 GB
Steam DeckUntestedUntested
Released20172017
DeveloperFree Reign EntertainmentXaviant

Prices and Steam ratings are read live and move over time.

Last Man Standing vs The Culling, point by point

Each facet side by side. A round is marked won only where a figure settles it; feel and "which is better" carry no mark, because no number we hold decides them.

  1. Genre and premise

    Last Man StandingFPS mmorpg game
    The CullingFPS open-world game

    What each is filed as. Each game describes itself in full above; we do not judge a premise.

  2. How it plays

    Last Man StandingFree to Play, Survival, Open World
    The CullingSurvival, Action, Battle Royale

    The tags players apply most, in order of votes. A read on feel, not a verdict.

  3. Reception

    Last Man StandingScore 5.8 · 61% on Steam
    The CullingScore 5.5 · 57% on Steam

    The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

  4. Content and scale

    Last Man Standing17,338 reviews · 10 GB
    The Culling17,224 reviews · 8 GB

    Reach and footprint, not quality: more reviews or a bigger install is not a better game.

  5. Price

    Last Man StandingNot listed
    The CullingNot listed

    Read live from Steam and subject to change.

Last Man Standing takes 1 of the marked rounds to 0. That is only what a number can decide, not which you will enjoy more.

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Last Man Standing and The Culling on the axes the GamingPickz Score is built from, on the full 0 to 100 scale so each dot is its real position. Change either axis to compare them on any measure.

2 games have both

01000100PlayersPopularityLast Man StandingThe Culling

Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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How positions are decided

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  • No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
  • A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
  • Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.

Which to pick, by what you want

  • The higher-rated of the two: Last Man Standing (GamingPickz Score 5.8)
  • Lighter on storage: The Culling (8 GB)

What they have in common

Both are tagged by Steam players with:

Free to PlaySurvivalMultiplayerOpen WorldActionMassively MultiplayerBattle RoyalePvP

Where they differ

Last Man Standing is also

ShooterThird-Person ShooterAdventureThird PersonSingleplayerZombies

The Culling is also

CraftingEarly AccessGoreBloodCompetitiveAtmospheric

Tags players apply to one game and not the other.

Difficulty and who each is for

By the tags players apply, Last Man Standing is middle-of-the-road on difficulty. The Culling is middle-of-the-road on difficulty.

System requirements, side by side

Last Man StandingThe Culling
Minimum GPUNVIDIA GTX 460 2 GBDX11 GPU with 1GB
Minimum CPUIntel Core i5-2400Intel Core i3 560 / AMD Phenom2 X4 945
Minimum RAM6 GB4 GB
Install size10 GB8 GB

Can your PC run them? Check each against your own kit: Last Man Standing · The Culling.

Accessibility features

Steam store pages declare 0 accessibility features for Last Man Standing and 1 for The Culling. A declaration is a floor, not a review.

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Common questions

How different are Last Man Standing and The Culling in scope?

Last Man Standing has drawn 17,338 Steam reviews and installs in 10 GB. The Culling has drawn 17,224 Steam reviews and installs in 8 GB.

Is Last Man Standing or The Culling better?

By the GamingPickz Score, Last Man Standing rates higher (5.8 to 5.5). That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, not our taste. "Better" also depends on price, length and platform, which the table above lays out.

Which is cheaper, Last Man Standing or The Culling?

One or both do not have a current listed price, so a straight comparison is not possible. See the table above.

Do you rank one above the other for a fee?

No. Neither game, nor anyone else, pays for placement or a verdict here. The order and every figure come out of the same public data the rest of the site uses.

How we compare, and what we will not do

The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment (adjusted for sample size), the critic aggregate and popularity, computed by the same code every ranked list on this site uses. The Steam rating label is Valve's own, reconstructed from the positive percentage and review count. Prices are read live. We do not write an opinion of which game is "better": we report the numbers and say which wins each measurable question above.

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