Catmaze
Fair · RPG · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.4h 11h to 100%
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 606 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
Catmaze is a fairy metroidvania inspired by Slavic myths. Age-old tales will come to life in the unforgettable adventure of Alesta, a sorceress whose courage guides her through mysterious paths and dark forests in search of the lost road to Nav, the world of the dead.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory, 348 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 78 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 65 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 81 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, HAAK ($17.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats AWAKEN - Astral Blade ($19.99, scores 50).
More about Catmaze
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 327 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
36% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 2 when we last checked, on Sep 29, 02:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
The use of Slavic mythology is alright. However, overall, it's a very generic-feeling metroidvania that just feels boring to play. The metroidvania elements feel unpolished: progression is very slow-paced, items are difficult to use correctly and combat is very janky. Some sounds are way too loud, nothing stands out visually and the story didn't do it for me either. The majority of players quits before beating the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I beat this game, cause I'm stubborn and stupid, but it is a fairly mediocre game. Lots of backtracking, some truly "meh" boss fights, way too much text for a boring story, and it just doesn't have an interesting hook that makes it stand out from the sea of other boring Metroidvania games. If there's a positive, I did like how straightforward the objectives were laid out. There's always a mark on the map to make...
Moonlight guides soft paws Slavic spirits guard old paths A witch seeks her truth
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Catmaze 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/620220/catmazeReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.