CATch the Stars
BANGER · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 1h 1.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.99/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 392 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 66 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
CATch the Stars is a minimalist puzzle with a pleasant and original soundtrack. Click on the right star, solve the puzzles and form constellations with a beautiful and relaxing environment. No score, no timer and no pressure.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Graphics card supporting DirectX 9.0c, 512 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
55 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 9 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sudocats ($1.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats A Shelter Full of Cats ($4.99, scores 90).
More about CATch the Stars
Steam's global achievement data puts 57 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 306 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 98 percent of the 285 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 81 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
99% start to 57% 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
What players say
well-made relaxing puzzles, 2hr full game, 50 levels for 100% areas that can be improved: - to add some random daily levels, and related achievements - to add an option to cancel last click, perhaps next to the restart button on the top right Profile Features Limited, this game does not count towards the perfect game count 9 achievements, no point shop, no trading cards
1 more review
A short, fun and relaxing game. I love the CATch The Stars games, although I started with the Japanese one. I hope that Pinel games makes more of these. I love all their cat themed puzzle games and I hope they find more of an audience here on Steam. The puzzles are cute. There's not a lot of challenge to them, at least for me, but I enjoy figuring them out and seeing the end result constellation. The music is...
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Cite this score
CATch the Stars scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1420540/catch-the-starsReviews 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.