Catherine Classic
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 13.2h 64.2h to 100%
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 11,406 positive
Recent reviews trending down: 77% over the last 30 days against 87% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $16.25 or less.
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
Catherine: a tale of love, betrayal, and the terror of commitment. Experience the mature action-adventure-puzzle game unlike any other from the makers of the Persona series, now enhanced for PC in all its Classic glory. Is love over? Climb to the top or die trying.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 55 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Do Not Feed the Monkeys ($15.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats The Sexy Brutale ($19.99, scores 62).
More about Catherine Classic
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Players rate it 87 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 77 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 13 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 1,035 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 13.2 hours. Doing everything runs 64, 4.9 times as long.
The drop-off
80% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Catherine is a one of a kind game that provided me with an experience so specific that I will probably never get to experience anything even remotely similar to it. The game has such a bizarre yet gripping premise, and just the right amount of weirdness (and the good kind of weird). The story focuses on real relationship anxieties and adult themes that many other pieces of media are afraid to explore and tackle. The...
2 more reviews
absolute cinema play on easy if you dont want to sweat at puzzles, dont fall for the normal difficulty its literally hard and i consider myself a puzzle veteran.
Gameplay (9/10): The gameplay is simple and efficient. You climb to the top of each puzzle tower. The difficulty ramps up gradually but never becomes overwhelming. If you invest time, even the hardest levels can be finished within a few hours. Watching a guide makes it easier if you're stuck. Some sounds still echo in my head while writing this: "EDGE, EDGE", "UNDO, UNDO", and Vincent's scream when he falls. Style /...
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Cite this score
Catherine Classic scores 65/100 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/893180/catherine-classicReviews 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 15, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.