The Game Census
I wanna be The Cat cover art

I wanna be The Cat

Nemega · 2017-12-14

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Dec 14, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

I wanna be the Cat is a challenging roguelite platformer inspired by I wanna be the Guy fangames.Fight against famous videogame characters turned into cats and try to claim "THE CAT" as the ultimate title.

91%
positive of 171 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (70 reviews).
  • · Top 35% of 23,764 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.3k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 171 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.89 at Steam (2018-02-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
696920172026Week of 2017-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$4.892017-12-152025-07-102017-12-15 — best price $5.942018-01-04 — best price $6.992018-02-15 — best price $4.892018-02-19 — best price $6.992018-12-05 — best price $5.592018-12-12 — best price $6.992018-12-21 — best price $5.592019-01-03 — best price $6.992025-07-02 — best price $5.942025-07-10 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

31
achievements tracked
79.3%
earned "Noob killer"
14.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

Player tags

2DCatsIndieActionAdventureDifficultPlatformerRogue-liteAction RoguelikePrecision Platformer

Census log

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

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