Hidden Paws

Hidden Paws

Fair · Short indie · 2018

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
2.7h
Value
$1.11/hr
Reviews
85% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
75% ($0.74)
Deepest seasonal cut
80% ($0.59)
Last discount ended
94 days ago

Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
2.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.11
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$2.99
as of Oct 2
Reviews
85%
944 reviews, as of Sep 28
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2018

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Graphics card with 1GB memory, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

It's winter and cats are still outside. Cold and alone. Find them and bring them home. Now includes free Christmas Isles. Enjoy!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Value$1.11/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews85% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 84% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
Length2.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 428 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

The value story

December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $0.59. 86 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 13 weeks ago.

Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 88 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cats in Time ($4.99, scores 87) beats it on value, while it beats A Little to the Left ($14.99, scores 57).

This site sampled 428 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 304 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

71% start to 5% 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

Im already such a sucker for hidden cats games. Add the cutesy graphics, the perfectly designed dioramas, the amazing sound design for every single interactable and the amount of interactables that actually respond to the laws of physics, and you've got a gem in your hands. Way longer and more thought out than pretty much any other game in the genre, this really satisfied my cravings for well designed games in the...
GibiPRecommendedafter 1.9h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Its cozy and easy. Camera is bit a problem, you should used to it. Visual problem with floating objects, someone forget to make it right.
SonicRecommendedafter 6.8hMar 2026Read on Steam
Looked for lost cats found a full feline conspiracy with tea and mismatched socks.
🍀 WinteraidRecommendedafter 4.0hMar 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Hidden Paws scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/816490/hidden-paws
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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 28, price as of Oct 2.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperManic Hyena
PublisherManic Hyena
GenreShort indie
Released2018
Achievements10