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A Wild Catgirl Appears! cover art

A Wild Catgirl Appears!

NewWestGames · 2016-01-04

Steam

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 04, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 04, 2016 (Mac), Jan 04, 2016 (Linux)

A Wild Catgirl Appears is a short romance visual novel featuring multiple routes, different girls to date and of course, catgirls! You follow the story of Ami, a loner at high school, as she joins the school's coding club and sets about making her first video game.

A Wild Catgirl Appears! is an Adventure game released in 2016, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (56% of 282 reviews).

1
playing now
57%
positive of 281 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
$2.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (21 reviews).
  • · Top 25% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 7.0k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 281 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.98 at IndieGala Store (2017-08-07) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220162026Week of 2016-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$2.99$0.982016-01-052026-07-092016-01-05 — best price $2.692016-03-31 — best price $2.992016-05-09 — best price $2.992016-08-16 — best price $2.992016-09-26 — best price $2.992016-11-29 — best price $2.992017-01-30 — best price $2.992017-07-05 — best price $2.992017-10-20 — best price $1.492017-12-21 — best price $1.492018-02-23 — best price $1.492018-07-05 — best price $2.992018-09-17 — best price $1.792018-11-21 — best price $1.642019-02-04 — best price $1.492019-05-18 — best price $1.792019-10-11 — best price $1.492019-11-30 — best price $1.492020-01-23 — best price $1.492020-03-03 — best price $1.492020-06-25 — best price $1.492020-10-29 — best price $1.492020-12-22 — best price $1.492021-04-24 — best price $1.492021-08-07 — best price $1.492021-11-24 — best price $1.492022-01-27 — best price $1.492022-06-24 — best price $1.492022-11-22 — best price $1.492023-03-16 — best price $1.492023-08-07 — best price $1.492023-11-21 — best price $1.492024-03-14 — best price $1.492024-11-27 — best price $1.492025-03-13 — best price $1.492026-06-25 — best price $1.492026-07-09 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

5
achievements tracked
22.2%
earned "Oops I made it again!"
14.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,47466%5

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DRPGAnimeFunnyLGBTQ+RomanceDating SimStory RichVisual NovelTranshumanism

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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