Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
Worth it · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.66.
- Length
- 5.9h 12.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.52/hr
- Reviews
- 96% of 255 positive
Full price
Today
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.66 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- 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
Swing, jump, and blast through dimensions in the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 2D action-platformer Grapple Dog. Zip between action-packed worlds as Pablo and Luna team up to save the cosmos in their own unique ways.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 128MB, 41 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 21 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $8.99 at 50 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Webbed ($9.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats Sonic Origins ($29.99, scores 34).
More about Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
88 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 5.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 5.9 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 2.1 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
87% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
This one is a mixed review for me, especially as someone who really enjoyed the original Grapple Dog to 100% completion. The grappling in this game feels heavier and less snappy than its predecessor. While you can rebind the grapple and talk buttons (my preference is Y to grapple and X to talk), unfortunately on controller Y is permanently bound to restart time trial levels, and as someone who likes to hold down the...
2 more reviews
Cosmic Canines is in most ways a better game than the first! The music is more varied, there are powerups to give Pablo more variety, and there's another character to play who has their own levels. The new character is fun enough, very different from Pablo. Pablo no longer has the Momentum bar, which I think is overall a good change. Pablo however is also less affected by momentum and it feels like there is a cap on...
An improvement from the first game in every way. Better art, more varied gameplay and level design, and you can't skip entire worlds anymore. There's even skins now!
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines scores 74/100 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/2278790/grapple-dogs-cosmic-caninesReviews 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.