Cat Lady - The Card Game

Cat Lady - The Card Game

Worth it · Strategy · 2019

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The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $3.99.

Length
2.3h 12.9h to 100%
Value
$1.73/hr
Reviews
93% of 328 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
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

Raising the score
Reviews93% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Replayability~13h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 2.3h main story
Engagement52% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.74/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 217 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

Cat Lady - The Card Game is a fun card-drafting game in which players are Cat Ladies, trying to tempt cats into their cattery using food, toys, costumes and more. Based on the much-loved card game by AEG.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 1024x600 resolution, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

44 discounts in the 7 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stacklands ($3.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Talisman: Digital Classic Edition ($6.99, scores 51).

More about Cat Lady - The Card Game

Steam's global achievement data puts 52 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. None of the 217 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.

2.3 hours to finish it, 13 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.6 times the campaign.

The drop-off

68% start to 52% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam 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

If you like cosy card games and cats, grab Cat Lady when it's on sale. The post-game animation sequence is annoying right out of the gate; the developer should ditch it or allow you to skip it.
crunchyfroggieRecommendedafter 4.0hMar 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews
I enjoy this game very much. It is a challenge to try to meet all the winning conditions.
yeoulingwenRecommendedafter 3.7hFeb 2026Read on Steam
Cat Lady: The Card Game is the digital version of the board game of the same name, where you have to strategically gather cats and cat supplies to end up with the most points at the end of the game. This is a pretty good adaptation of the board game. The rules are pretty much the same as in the physical game and the controls are pretty intuitive. If you're brand new to the game, it's easy to get into and the...
The Greater SphinxRecommendedafter 4.2hJun 2025Read 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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Cat Lady - The Card Game scores 84/100 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/869690/cat-lady-the-card-game
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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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperNomad Games
PublisherNomad Games
GenreStrategy
Released2019
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements31