Cats and the Other Lives
Fair · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $2.98/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX900 Series or Higher, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Part interactive fiction, part Felis domesticus adventure, “Cats and the Other Lives” explores the reunion of a broken family from the perspective of their house cat, Aspen.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 60 percent off as a rule. There have been 21 in the 4 years tracked, about 10 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 9 percent on value. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Finding Paradise ($9.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats Home ($4.99, scores 17).
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 393 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
48% start to 23% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
1 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 03:50 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I bawled my eyes out in the end. Very unexpected twists in the storyline. The best thing about the game is definitely the story and the bonus of seeing it from the perspective of a devoted house cat.
This game is hauntingly beautiful. The graphics are creative and perfect for the feel of the game. The story is mesmerizing, engaging, well-written, and heart-wrenchingly good. It's filled with hard truths and heavy topics. You will leave feeling wrecked emotionally, but it's worth it to experience this wonderfully-crafted game. The cherry on top is that you get to experience all of this as a cat named Aspen. The...
You're a cat, doing your own things while this family is falling apart. You get to see many side of the story of each individuals, all the fun and the sadness in between. It's a slow pace game where you sit back and enjoy the story on a cat's perspective.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cats and the Other Lives scores 61/100 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/1360390/cats-and-the-other-livesReviews 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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