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Purrgatory

Niv · 2021-08-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieFree To Play

Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 22, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 23, 2021 (Web browser)

A slice-of-death visual novel about making friends, cracking cat puns, and waiting for eternity to pass.

99%
positive of 5.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 313 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~39/week).
  • · Review velocity down 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 12,794 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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28628620212026Week of 2021-08-01: 202 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 126 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 136 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 106 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 93 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

10 supported languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, French, Norwegian, Russian

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2021-08-23 (Steam store data)

Census log

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

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