Cathedral
Skip · Action · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 20.4h 27.9h to 100%
- Value
- $0.73/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 460 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Make your way through more than 600 rooms, and unravel the secrets of your past by finding the five elemental orbs. Cathedral features a vast world, meant for exploring!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 512 MB or equivalent, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 45 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 31 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 85 percent of its genre. On the same math Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) and Axiom Verge ($19.99, scores 51) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about Cathedral
Of the 239 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
The drop-off
62% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Little bit of a mixed bag. Has some excellent platforming ideas, but the developers added artificial difficulty by just spawning enemies everywhere so traversal becomes frustrating and obnoxious. You become less inclined to explore as the game goes on because it's just not worth it... Every room becomes a hellish slog. The boss fights are genuinely fun and well designed, but the common enemies are very lacklustre...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Fun game with horribly tuned bosses. Bosses are damage sponges and waste your time. Don't start the game unless you just want to be incredibly frustrated.
This game was played in its entirety on a MacBook Air M1 8gb ram 7c gpu running MacOS Sonoma. All achievements unlocked at their appropriate times. There was a moderate movement bug encountered in the game, and it did crash on me approximately five times in my nearly 40 hours play through of the game. TLDR: An amazing retro Metroidvania with best-in-class level design, awesome chiptunes, and an extreme level of...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cathedral scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1056180/cathedralReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.