The Cat Lady
Worth it · Narrative · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$8.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.7980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourA
- $1.12/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 6,322
- Critics
- 81 players 13 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Narrative
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.79 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8h
- To 100%
- 11.7h 1.5x the story
- Finish
- 28% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 76 on record
- Typical cut
- 66% off
- Steam low
- $0.80 October 2025
- Sale every
- 59d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 42% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
58% start to 28% 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
The value story
The value story
76 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 66 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 96 percent of its genre. Among the games closest to it, Lorelai ($8.99, scores 72) and Downfall ($8.99, scores 74) both come in lower.
More about The Cat Lady
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 18. This site sampled 405 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 273 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $2.24 (75% off). Predictions like this were right 91% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Harvester Games quickly becoming an interesting source of horror adventure games. Their games all share a similar tone, and the crossover on some of the themes makes for interesting expansion in the setting (though it can also be seen as shock thriller). Anyway, the themes of a dying person getting a second chance by punishing serial killers is a cool storyline and makes this a great game for fans of point-and-click...
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I wish there were more games like this one. Dark, disturbing, miserable, full of despair - just as I like it
I've watched LPs of this game long ago, but after 12+ years and finish playing the game for myself... holy fudge nuggets, this is an amazing masterpiece (to me). I love Susan (main character you play as) and her humour and creative imagination (is similar to me). I find myself easily relatable to her (when I felt lost/depressed in life) and even empathise with her (and understand why she's like that later down the...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX compatible card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
The Cat Lady scores 84/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/253110/the-cat-ladyReviews 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 Oct 17, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.