A Wild Catgirl Appears!

A Wild Catgirl Appears!

Skip · Narrative · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 4, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
1h 1.8h to 100%
Value
$2.99/hr
Reviews
56% of 282 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

Discounted in 5 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
Value$2.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews56% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 58% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 25 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

A Wild Catgirl Appears is a short romance visual novel featuring multiple routes, different girls to date and of course, catgirls! You follow the story of Ami, a loner at high school, as she joins the school's coding club and sets about making her first video game.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Onboard, 297 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

The value story

66 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 79 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 97 percent. The Expanse: A Telltale Series ($24.99, scores 32) outscores it, and so does Lake ($19.99, scores 51). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about A Wild Catgirl Appears!

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

22% start to 14% 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

A Wild Catgirl Disappears! The writing is extremely juvenile, making for a difficult read, and some of the achievements seem to be bugged, killer combo you got there. The message at the end was really unnecessary too.
magmionNot recommendedafter 1.0hFeb 2026Read 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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A Wild Catgirl Appears! scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/429580/a-wild-catgirl-appears
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperNewWestGames
PublisherNewWestGames
GenreNarrative
Released2016
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements5