The Game Census
Cat Bait cover art

Cat Bait

Mayni prod. · 2024-08-27

Steam

ActionCasualIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Aug 27, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Android), TBD (iOS), TBD (Nintendo Switch)

Cat Bait is a casual game with cute pixel graphics. Control the Cat Bait, dodge enemies, and use the unique abilities of helper cats.

96%
positive of 1.5k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 220 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~28/week).
  • · Review velocity down 27% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 14,822 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 31k–69k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,543 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.74 at Steam (2025-12-18) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
27427420242026Week of 2024-08-01: 274 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 174 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 6 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

37
achievements tracked
94.3%
earned "Well, Now It's Clear!"
30.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudRemote Play on TVFamily Sharing

14 supported languages: English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Japanese, Latvian, Korean…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)27915%37

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

Player tags

2DCatsCuteIndieActionCasualFantasySurvivalRogue-liteBullet Hell

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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