Don't Kill the Cow (2019)

- Developer
- James Earl Cox III
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Indie
- Rating
- 4.2 of 5, 115 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 10 minutes
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
a brief, minimalist experience that uses a single absurd rule to poke at the player's assumptions about winning and losing.
shortexperimentalminimalistdarkly funnysurrealreflectivesimplechoice-driven
What players say
Players describe it as a short, free dark comedy where you walk between your wife and the cow. The central dilemma is simple but a few say there are multiple endings worth finding. Some find the back-and-forth tedious and the moral choice shallow.
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