# Why Chicken? Why?

Summer DB entity ID: f6f4bcab\-b5f8\-41be\-be28\-71acc0513ee4

Steam App ID: 1012600

\* Description \*  Why Chicken? Why?\.\.\.  is a top\-down action indie game about a chicken\.\.\.crossing the road\.\.\.for golden eggs\. A solo developer project\.  \- Can you make it to the end of the game with most of your feathers intact? \-  Will the evil enemies hinder your progress to the ultimate goal?  \- Will the perilous environmental hazards keep you from cluckin'?  \- Feel your pulse race as you narrowly miss being squashed\.  \- Experience the sweat on your thumbs, ext, as you play\.\.\. Why Chicken? Why?  \-Key Features\-   \- Navigate hazards and traffic to reach the golden eggs on each level  \- Feel your toes curl when you narrowly miss being chicken soup \-  Collect coins for points and lives, as well as other items  \-  Progressively harder areas & levels  \-  Completionists will have a time collecting all coins/points \-  Secret levels \-  Local high score system \-  Old school graphics/elements & difficult at times \-  Steam Achievements  \-  Partial controller support\. Use \(M\) to mute music & \(P\) to play again \-  An 'homage' to an older game  \*Contains Very Mild Cartoon Violence  \*Contains fast images & colors \(Seizure Warning\) \*No chickens were harmed in the making of this game\.\.\.     nor do I condone running chickens over with your car \*FEATHERS 4 LIFE\!\!\! Reviews  'Great job, the game levels progressed nicely, the tricky bit was gauging how far the chicken would move when an extra few lanes were added to the screen\.\.\.bastard level 5 was tricky, and at the end I barely got across and missed all the coins because I hit the golden egg\.\.\.lol\.\.\.nice addition with the ghost frog/gold bar secret level\.'   Krypto Man \- Machete Ish Records

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: J\.R\. Smith

- Publisher: J\.R\. Smith

- Release date: Feb 6, 2019

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Action, Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_ae7d05ef7cb7ed40dd117190ba83b01885d04f3d\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_c009114813d2038b3b70428da65ee7a203d51b16\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_0facaa648ea4770c3d1c2a90e30a6ee14eb9c3a7\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_d2fe09835e72d5f5ada99e4375be83a4827708d5\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_84f4c1eb4c30390c71d448f1428f890807dade03\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_195169ff86ba0912dc61e4ecc32aa31a92f4ae32\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_0e7f675629332439584eeb8136a717e388b5c978\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1012600/ss\_9ebba79ce8fbbf0e7793b2cfe07fde7366e2500b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1705542066

- Price: 399 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 2

- Steam positive reviews: 2

- Steam negative reviews: 0

- Steam positive percentage: 100%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/f6f4bcab-b5f8-41be-be28-71acc0513ee4/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/f6f4bcab-b5f8-41be-be28-71acc0513ee4/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T01:16:14\.977481\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T01:16:16\.275397\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T01:16:16\.083136\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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