Cat Museum
Worth it · Narrative · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 2h 2.5h to 100%
- Value
- $2.50/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 914 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $1.49 (70% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
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
Immerse yourself in the bizarre art style and the surreal world of Cat Museum, a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure game. Solve the strange puzzles with your mischievous cat, and unveil the truth behind the mysterious museum.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce 9600 GS, Radeon HD4000, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 25 discounts in the 5 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including The Dream Machine: Chapter 1 & 2 ($3.99, scores 63) and Samorost 2 ($4.99, scores 61).
More about Cat Museum
Of the 366 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 267 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
At 2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
90% start to 10% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 2, 20:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I would definitely recommend Cat Museum! At first, it seems like a simple puzzle game in a strange art museum, but it quickly becomes much deeper and more emotional. Each room feels like stepping into a strange painting that is both beautiful and a bit creepy. The art is very unique, with weird and dream-like images that feel unsettling but interesting at the same time. Every area slowly reveals more of the story...
1 more review
A masterpiece just like 'Life Gallery' ! (˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥⋆) Once you start connecting puzzle pieces of the story (some parts need your own input) and slowly begin to realize what is happening, it has you in a chokehold. Very beautiful and emotional. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cat Museum scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1688100/cat-museumReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.