CATO: Buttered Cat
BANGER · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.59, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Sep 2024.
- Length
- 6.7h
- Value
- $0.98/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 40% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 20% ($8.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 30% ($7.69)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel Graphics 4400 or better, 799 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Puzzle platformer where you control both the cat and the toast, based on the famous "Buttered Cat Paradox". The game features 200+ levels, 70+ skins, plus boss fights and mini-games!
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
The lowest price on record is $6.59, set in August 2026. It has been discounted 20 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today's $6.59 at 40 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
At full price it scores 82. The current cut is what makes it a 92.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, BattleBlock Theater® ($14.99, scores 100) beats it on value, while it beats Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76).
The math says it holds its tier up to $9.29, and you are being asked for $6.59.
This site sampled 345 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 99 percent of the 513 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
98% start to 8% 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
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 21:48 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I mean, it's cute, that's what you're here for right? I'd call its puzzle difficulty mostly easy dipping occasionally into moderate, with the optional hidden levels pretty solidly moderate. Bash your head against any of the puzzles long enough and you'll eventually brute force a solution into existence. Nothing here to chew on after the game has closed and make you exclaim "AHA!" in the middle of the night, but it's...
I love this game. It's so cool, and puzzles are either easy or real tricky, I've been stuck here and there for sure. Very cute fun game you can play some levels and come back to it later when there is time. The 3D parts are awesome too.
One of the best 2D puzzle platformer I've have ever played. 5 distinct worlds, each one adds different mechanics and makes this in a way that it never gets boring or too hard, perfect balance with lots of hidden rooms and secrets with even more puzzles.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CATO: Buttered Cat scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1999520/cato-buttered-catReviews 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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