A Shelter Full of Cats
BANGER · Short indie · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.49, at or past its typical seasonal cut of 30%. The Autumn Sale runs to Oct 8.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 30% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($3.49)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 512 MB display memory, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Everyone can be a hero! Help a cat rescuer take care of her rescuees and root for their adoption! Every cat deserves a chance to be loved. ❤️
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 18 in the 2 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.49 at 30 percent off still sits 17 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 90. The current cut is what makes it a 97.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including A Building Full of Cats ($1.49, scores 95) and A Castle Full of Cats ($2.39, scores 94).
The math says it holds its tier up to $6.39, and you are being asked for $3.49.
Steam's global achievement data puts 75 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 326 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 115 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
99% start to 75% 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
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 21:51 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Another enjoyable hidden object game. - 2.5hrs playtime - All the cats look more or less like cats - Zoom and scrolling were good and easy to use - No glitches or technical difficulties I wasn't a fan of the hint system. The rest of this review will just be me complaining about the hint system. - The hint system might be the worst I've ever seen. Sometimes it's fine, and moves the screen to an area with a hidden...
It hard to look at some of these colors used, they are just too bright and clashing around. After some changes with my color settings I can play the game. It's okay, not as great as others. I didn't like that I was searching where to go every time, maybe it's related to me not being interested in the story. But I was lost often. Also I had a couple of grey screens in between switching on the map.
This is frustrating and depressing. I've enjoyed previous games by these devs, but think this will be my last. I don't need to be focusing this intently on sick/injured cats for an hour at a time.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A Shelter Full of Cats scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3087650/a-shelter-full-of-catsReviews 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 2.
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