Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99.
- Length
- 3.2h 7.8h to 100%
- Value
- $0.31/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 717 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
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
About the game
A minimalist 2D platformer about a liquid cat, locked in a world she doesn't quite understand, trying to get out.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 123 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
51 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tukoni: Prologue (free, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats StrikeForce Kitty ($9.99, scores 62).
The math says it holds its tier up to $3.97.
More about Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows
Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 236 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 239 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 37 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.2 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 2.4 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% start to 22% 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
What players say
wonderful game. took a minute to beat but was really fun. insane lore across the 2 games a light in the shadows and a better place
2 more reviews
Fun platformer. And is better than about any AAA game that has come out this past 5 years
I first played this game years ago and loved it - coming back to it is very nostalgic for me
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Cats are Liquid - A Light in the Shadows scores 86/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/498330/cats-are-liquid-a-light-in-the-shadowsReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.