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The best cats indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 20 cats indie games on Steam, holding 357,968 reviews at an average of 92% positive. This list ranks them by Steam review count, the most reliable public sales proxy, with a white-box sales estimate behind every title. The most reviewed is Stray with 155,602 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Stray · 155,602 reviews · 97% positive · 2022
  2. BattleBlock Theater® · 55,703 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  3. Nine Sols · 38,583 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  4. NEKOPARA Vol. 1 · 23,350 reviews · 95% positive · 2014
  5. Cat Goes Fishing · 15,243 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  6. NEKOPARA Vol. 3 · 11,154 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  7. NEKOPARA Vol. 2 · 11,038 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  8. Little Kitty, Big City · 10,289 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  9. while True: learn() · 7,294 reviews · 91% positive · 2019
  10. Atomicrops · 6,293 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  11. Minami Lane · 5,991 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  12. Copycat · 4,406 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
  13. Animal Shelter · 3,602 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  14. Calico · 3,229 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  15. CATO: Buttered Cat · 2,668 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  16. Timelie · 1,778 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  17. Urban Jungle · 638 reviews · 91% positive · 2025
  18. I Am Cat · 552 reviews · 70% positive · 2024
  19. Kristala · 434 reviews · 75% positive · 2026
  20. Cat Detective Albert Wilde · 121 reviews · 94% positive · 2025

How this list is built

Games are ranked by Steam review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales when actual figures are private. Each title links to its indielist page, where the white-box sales estimate expands into the full Boxleiter formula, so you can audit the number rather than trust a black box. Review counts come from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official sales data.

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