Cat Goes Fishing
BANGER · Strategy · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $6.99.
- Length
- 13h
- Value
- $0.54/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB memory. Windows only.
Start out on an island with a basic rod. Progress into a radar-wielding master fisher-cat scouring the sea for the biggest and baddest fish. Each fish has unique behaviors that you will learn to exploit as you tailor your arsenal of fishing rods to suit your style of play. Mrrrow!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.00, set in June 2015. 39 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 33 percent off, roughly 11 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 11 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 98 percent of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including A Little to the Left ($5.99, scores 73) and MewnBase ($9.99, scores 65).
The math says it holds its tier up to $13.03, and you are being asked for $6.99.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,293 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13 hours. Doing everything runs 31, 2.4 times as long.
The drop-off
96% start to 2% rarestNo 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
Players
117 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
I am completely calm while playing rage games or really difficult games but somehow this game made me rage like nothing else in my entire life special ♥♥♥♥ you's to the grumper, cuda, all of the ancient kingfish's minions, sourfish, carver and the yellowjack
I was excited to play this, but when I played it, it was boring after 10 hours. This game is good, but its not my cup of tea. I'm leaving recommended.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Cat Goes Fishing scores 90/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/343780/cat-goes-fishingThe 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 16, price as of Sep 24.
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