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Meow Palace: Forbidden City cover art

Meow Palace: Forbidden City

宫喵家族 · 2025-12-16

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Dec 16, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Meow Palace is a chill desktop companion & idle life-sim where an adorable palace cat settles on the corner of your screen—keeping you company while you work, study, or secretly slack off.

Meow Palace: Forbidden City is a 2025 Casual, Indie, Simulation and Early Access game priced at $4.07, with a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 282 reviews).

92%
positive of 282 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.07
steam price (US)

Health check

Cooling
  • · 24 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 88% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (102 reviews).
  • · Top 18% of 29,098 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.6k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 282 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.59 at Fanatical (2026-08-03) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10210220252026Week of 2025-12-17: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-12-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 102 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 83 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-13: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-29: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$5.99$3.592025-12-172026-08-232025-12-17 — best price $5.392025-12-30 — best price $5.992026-02-12 — best price $4.792026-02-25 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-03-26 — best price $5.992026-04-15 — best price $5.992026-04-27 — best price $4.492026-05-05 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $4.072026-07-09 — best price $5.992026-08-03 — best price $3.592026-08-19 — best price $4.072026-08-21 — best price $4.482026-08-23 — best price $4.69
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
8.6%
earned "First Entry into the Palace Gates"
1.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)442%19

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

Census log

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

Recent updates

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