Zero people are playing Boudewijn right now. Zero. Steam’s tracker doesn’t lie — as of May 4, 2026, the concurrent player count sits at an unblemished donut.

But three people have played it. All three left reviews. All three are positive. And every single one is about cows.

Boudewijn, released May 3 by the Boudewijn Freens Company, is a free indie 3D platformer with a straightforward pitch: explore a small open environment, interact with objects, and track down cows scattered across the map by clicking on them. There’s a secret level tucked away somewhere too. That’s the whole game. It costs nothing and asks little.

The player base has responded with the kind of unhinged enthusiasm you only see when a game punches above its weight class — or when cows are involved. The top review, from a player with 12 minutes logged, reads in full: “COWS! Cows high and cows low. Thousands of cows in my eye. I hope I never have this dream. Moo. 10/10.”

The second review keeps it tight: “Love the cows, love the game. Highly recommend! <3” — six minutes played.

The third brings actual criticism to the table: “Holy Cow, this game is a certified BANGER!! I mean it, I especially like the part where you kill the Cows. wow (Instead of 20mb ram you need 400mb ram to run it)” — six minutes played.

Three reviews. 100% positive. A perfect score built on bovine bloodlust and sincerity.

Boudewijn currently sits on Steam’s New Releases chart, which is less a measure of quality and more a function of recency. The concurrent player count tells the real story: this game exists in that vast, quiet stretch of Steam where titles launch, get discovered by a handful of people, and settle into the catalog like dust on a shelf.

But those three reviews? Those matter. In an ecosystem drowning in sarcastic thumbs-down and meme reviews that say nothing, Boudewijn’s tiny fanbase came with full chest energy. They played the game, they killed the cows, and they wanted you to know about it.

Sometimes the box score doesn’t tell the whole story. This time it does — and the story is cows.

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