Fat Chicken (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Fat Chicken

Fatten up the herds and rake in the cash - a REVERSE TOWER DEFENSE game where you build a factory farm armed to the udders with towers that provide feed and water to the oncoming herds of farm animals. Upgrade…

80 4 December 2014

What Fat Chicken is

Fat Chicken is an indie game developed by Mighty Rabbit Studios and released in 2014. It was published by Relevant Games. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fatten up the herds and rake in the cash - a REVERSE TOWER DEFENSE game where you build a factory farm armed to the udders with towers that provide feed and water to the oncoming herds of farm animals. Upgrade your towers to boost their efficiency and don't forget to fend off pesky protesters with your well-armed force of rent-a-cops! Heck, you may even need to ward off a UFO or two!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Fat Chicken holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 65% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM and DirectX 9 video card with shader 2 support and 512MB of VRAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

Full requirements and PC checker →

What it launched against

Fat Chicken launched on 4 December 2014, within three weeks of Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, Tales from the Borderlands and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dragon Age: Inquisition, Far Cry 4, Tales from the Borderlands, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

Fat Chicken — frequently asked questions

When did Fat Chicken come out?

Fat Chicken was released on 4 December 2014 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Fat Chicken?

At minimum, Fat Chicken needs 1.8 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, DirectX 9 video card with shader 2 support and 512MB of VRAM graphics, 1700 MB available space of storage.

How many GB is Fat Chicken?

The PC version needs about 1.7 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("1700 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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