Calico
Fair · RPG · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $2.92/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.59. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 45 percent off as a rule. There have been 40 in the 6 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 8 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Cattails | Become a Cat! ($3.44, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Paleo Pines ($29.99, scores 57).
22 of the 677 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 464 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
69% start to 11% 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
Players
3 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 14:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is a very cute and straightforward indie game by a small dev group. Artwork is so cute, and the different biomes are fun. I echo what others have said, that the world feels kind of empty (I know there is a DLC but that might even not be enough). I think the devs have a great concept and worldbuilding, and spent a lot of time creating fun mini-games for baking and unique character designs. I'd love to see a...
Super cute game! I loved finding the cutest animals and sending them to my cafe Baking while being tiny was a really nice touch and lots of fun!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Calico scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1112890/calicoReviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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