Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender

Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender

Fair · Multiplayer · 2014

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.5h 7.3h to 100%
Value
$2.80/hr
Reviews
86% of 481 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

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

Holding it back
Reviews86% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 85% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$2.80/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 48 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Aqua Kitty is a fast paced retro styled submarine arcade shooter with optional 2 player local Co-op.Blast through hordes of mechanical sea monsters in your kitty sub and defend the deep sea milk mining kittens!THE MILK MUST FLOW!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c-compatible graphics card with 128 MB VRAM, 143 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

60 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 11 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Bleed ($4.99, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition ($19.99, scores 26).

More about Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender

Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 151 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 51 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 2.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 2.9 times as much.

The drop-off

57% start to 1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

The Cat's Meow? More Like the Cat's Mildly Irritated Meow. Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender is basically Defender if you replaced the spaceships with submarines, the astronauts with cats, and the "saving humanity" plot with "milk shortage panic." It's a quirky premise, but unfortunately, the humor ends there - unless you find "press shoot until your finger cramps" a sophisticated joke. The graphics are bright and...
VargavinterNot recommendedafter 4.4hDec 2024Read on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Bought this when it was brand new and decided to give it a chance again today, still don't like it. [*] Nearly all upgrades are temporary with a very very short duration and don't feel like they contribute anything. [*] The enemies you're supposed to protect your allies from sometimes spawn directly on top of them. [*] Most of the difficulty is linked to enemy health, paired with your slow, low range, low damage...
RawGreenNot recommendedafter 1.2hDec 2024Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender scores 60/100 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/263880/aqua-kitty-milk-mine-defender
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperTIKIPOD
PublisherTIKIPOD
GenreMultiplayer
Released2014
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements34