CANINE
Fair · Short indie · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $5.99. A BANGER at $1.08, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since May 2023 (lowest $1.49, Nov 2024).
- Length
- 0.4h 1.4h to 100%
- Value
- $14.98/hr
- Reviews
- 97% of 356 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.08 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
PSX style horror game about a boy looking for his dog, kidnapped by an evil corporation that runs experiments with pets.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidea GTX 950, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 35 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. $1.08 is what it would take to make this a BANGER, and nothing in its history goes that low.
On value it sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stay Out of the House ($14.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats CASE: Animatronics ($9.99, scores 54).
More about CANINE
Steam's global achievement data puts 53 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 311 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 261 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 84 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.4 hours. Doing everything runs 1, 3.5 times as long.
The drop-off
55% start to 53% 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
This game is an instant cult classic. What an amazing atmosphere and chase mechanic. I had a blast doing 100% of the achievements. The ending have a very touching message for humanity.
2 more reviews
Unfortunately I expected a bit more from this game. It starts off really promising but the quality drops quite a lot as it goes on. Overall it is pretty "okay" The retro look is actually quite interesting and gives the game its own style. The mix of horror, stealth and comedy is also a unique combination and creates some fun and scary moments. It's nothing special, but you can still have a fun and an interesting...
I actually enjoyed this game and the harder difficulty absolutely made me breath heavily on how fast the dog is but also the fact the owner has terrible endurance. ha! I even played it via Steam Deck with Keyboard and mouse which function normally. Now this game may be a few years old but I hope it they add some Point Shop for game. That would be nice.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
CANINE scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2334780/canineReviews 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.