The Cat Lady
Worth it · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $1.11/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
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The value story
October 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.80. 74 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 66 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Lorelai ($8.99, scores 59) and Downfall ($8.99, scores 63) both come in lower.
Critics scored it 81. Players sit 13 points higher at 94 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 28 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. This site sampled 404 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 269 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
58% start to 28% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Man, what a great game. If you like point and click games and mature themes in games this is right up your alley. It is a little bit outdated when it comes to controls and UI but you will get used to it in an hour or so. Please give it a try past the first chapter as it is kind of a slow-burner but when you play through the second chapter you will be hooked for sure and it is only upwards from there. Music is...
The Cat Lady is a point-and-click adventure, only there's no pointing or clicking. Everything is controlled with the keyboard, almost entirely with the arrow keys. Left and right scrolls through the dark, drab, and occasionally blood-splattered scenery while up triggers a menu allowing you to select from examining or interacting with whatever you've sidled up next to. The biggest problem The Cat Lady has(the game...
I'm not very good at reviews, so I'll try to be short: This game is one of the few that has managed to accurately voice the weight of depression. The tiredness that sits on your chest. It's also one of the few that realisticly shows how one may live with it. The ending I got when I first played it was very small yet hopeful. After finishing it, the message: "Press any key to live", appeared. And insta-closed the...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Cat Lady scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/253110/the-cat-ladyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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