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Cats in Time

Pine Studio · 2021-08-26

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Aug 26, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Aug 26, 2021 (Android)

A relaxing puzzle game in which you explore 3D dioramas, solve puzzles and save cats lost in time! Crazy, right?!

Cats in Time is an Adventure, Casual, Indie game released in 2021, priced at $4.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (96% of 1418 reviews).

6
playing now
96%
positive of 1.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
72/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

6 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Hello explorers! My name is Professor Tim Edger, and I'm the inventor of the time machine and an avid cat lover! Sadly, I have a problem, and maybe YOU can help me. You see, my beloved cats are missing. While playing in the lab, they've activated my time machine and ZAP, now they are lost in space and time! You have to travel from ancient Egypt, all the way to the streets of late 20. century New York, and even beyond the present - to future Tokyo. Your goal is to find all the cats! Please be careful; these cats are really good at hiding.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 6 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 63 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 28k–64k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,418 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2022-09-05) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 18 of 32 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
686820212026Week of 2021-08-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-09-15 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 16:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 6 players2026-09-28 04:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 19:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 10:00 — 6 players2026-10-04 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-06 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-10 00:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 6 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
133Sep 2021Aug 2026Sep 2021 — avg 11 · peak 37Nov 2021 — avg 6 · peak 21Jan 2022 — avg 8 · peak 31Mar 2022 — avg 5 · peak 26May 2022 — avg 10 · peak 33Jul 2022 — avg 11 · peak 32Sep 2022 — avg 9 · peak 27Nov 2022 — avg 7 · peak 20Jan 2023 — avg 11 · peak 35Mar 2023 — avg 8 · peak 22May 2023 — avg 7 · peak 23Jul 2023 — avg 7 · peak 18Sep 2023 — avg 4 · peak 12Nov 2023 — avg 7 · peak 18Jan 2024 — avg 6 · peak 20Mar 2024 — avg 6 · peak 18May 2024 — avg 5 · peak 27Jul 2024 — avg 6 · peak 17Sep 2024 — avg 12 · peak 45Nov 2024 — avg 4 · peak 15Jan 2025 — avg 7 · peak 19Mar 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11May 2025 — avg 4 · peak 15Jul 2025 — avg 3 · peak 13Sep 2025 — avg 5 · peak 15Nov 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Jan 2026 — avg 4 · peak 12Mar 2026 — avg 3 · peak 12May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Jul 2026 — avg 4 · peak 12Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$1.002021-08-262026-08-132021-08-26 — best price $4.742021-11-01 — best price $4.992022-01-05 — best price $4.992022-03-28 — best price $3.992022-05-24 — best price $4.992022-07-07 — best price $4.992022-09-06 — best price $4.992022-10-25 — best price $3.992022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-04-24 — best price $3.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-09-01 — best price $4.992023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-02-05 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-05-20 — best price $4.992024-07-18 — best price $3.492024-09-02 — best price $3.492024-11-21 — best price $2.992024-12-19 — best price $2.992025-02-10 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-04-24 — best price $4.992025-06-12 — best price $3.992025-07-18 — best price $3.992025-09-04 — best price $4.992025-10-02 — best price $4.992025-11-10 — best price $4.992026-01-01 — best price $4.992026-01-31 — best price $4.992026-03-19 — best price $3.992026-04-23 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-08-13 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

24
achievements tracked
88.3%
earned "Cat finder"
50.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play on PhoneRemote Play on TabletFamily Sharing

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,58748%24

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

Player tags

3DCatsCuteIndieCasualPuzzleCartoonyRelaxingAdventureTime Travel

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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