The Cat Machine
Short description
The Future is Meow! The Cat Machine is a game of logic, and cats riding around on trains.As we are all aware, The Cat Machine is a giant contraption that maintains the stability of earth's orbit around the sun. A fun logical puzzler with over 50 levels, now you can build that machine too!
- Developer
- Cranktrain
- Publisher
- Cranktrain
- Release
- Wed, Aug 12, 2015
- Price
- $14.99
- Reviews
- 122
- Positive
- 93%
- Followers
- n/a
- Owners (estimated)
- 0 – 20K
- Concurrent players
- n/a
- Genres
- Indie, Strategy
- Features
- Steam Trading Cards
- Tags
Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $10.98, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $14.99 launch price. That is 27% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.
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History
Tracking started Aug 4, 2026. Charts appear once there is more than one data point — nothing has changed since.
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