MagiCat
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 7.4h 26.4h to 100%
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 708 positive
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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
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About the game
MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2 enabled, 512 MB, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
59 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gato Roboto ($1.19, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats MO:Astray ($14.99, scores 69).
More about MagiCat
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 7.4-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 3 of the 310 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 111 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.4 hours; clearing it takes 26, which is 3.6 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.4 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
15% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Super ultra mega cute, but also a very well-designed game. There are a lot of Mario-likes that devolve into "precision platformer" nightmare bottomless pit hells, and this game understands that the real fun of Mario-likes is having unique touches in a lot of the levels, and a sense of exploration and goofing around fun and understanding the skills that you are equipped with. There are still lots of good precision...
2 more reviews
You think its a cute cat adventure game? YOURE WRONG, this cat game has demonic energy in it, sucking your energy for existing, every single level is pure evil, with demonic creatures deterioating your concentration. I liked it tho
'MagiCat' is a charming homage to the 16-bit era, successfully capturing the aesthetic and mechanical spirit of classic SNES platformers. Its greatest strength lies in its polished, responsive controls and a surprisingly deep level of content, featuring over 60 levels spread across multiple themed worlds. Each stage introduces clever environmental puzzles and varied enemy types that keep the core "jump and dash"...
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Cite this score
MagiCat scores 78/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/656970/magicatReviews 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.