Super Phantom Cat
Hurts to say it, since I really enjoyed this game and will probably come back again to finish off the last world/bonus levels I ignored.
But absolutely don’t buy this.
It’s from a Chinese mobile game company who completely abandoned the project, it was poorly ported over (something I ignored when I originally bought it, blinded by my love for cats and platformers).
You’ll find tons of reviews that had issues with their controller working, I didn’t face this problem but I believe this completely, due to the series of other problems I faced.
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
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If you are an achievement hunter DO NOT buy this game!
I have tried so hard to like this game, but its just not good. It has such cute graphics and the overall gameplay feel is very casual and straightforward. Its just super badly made which is such ashame! There is a glitch with the achievements not unlocking, bugs where the game progress will reset itself and the controls are bad. The keyboard bindings are horrible and I heard some people have problems with their controllers in this game. I personally didn’t get this bug and played with controller, but the movements are sluggish and at times frustrating. Sometimes you have to time your jumps to perfection, but the controls simply aren’t good enough for that kinda gameplay, which leads to tons of frustration.
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
Catsploration
You have lived nearly your entire life deep underground, watched over by a kind old man. However, it’s time to move forward. Rupert told you to seek out a being named Alvin, but he did not say why. Alvin loves to read and is likely to be found in the Library of Cats. Regardless of a reason, that sounds like a much nicer place to be than in these deep echoing tunnels. Let’s go!
Key Features
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A character controller dense with abilities. You will have access to double, triple, and long jumps. You can leap upwards, jump off walls and dash forward with a variety of speeds.
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As the pet of a wizard, you have access to many magical trinkets. Transform into a crow or light your way with a candle’s flame.
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Difficult gameplay.
Gameplay
Catsploration is a game where we explore digital heritage and creative commons works. As a cat. There aren’t many RPG elements yet, but I do hope to tell a story as I get further along with development. Although I hope this is something everyone can enjoy, I will definitely be focusing on the type of gameplay found in games like Mario64, A Hat in Time, ALTF4, and similar.
Community
Well, there isn’t one, yet! This game is just getting started. I hope to launch into Early Access on April 1st. Please join my Discord if you’d like to give suggestions about new levels or new music to include, as long as it’s a creative commons work or from the public domain. Or, maybe you’d just like to say, “hi!”
Credits
Catsploration contains creative commons and other works provided by hundreds.
Please see https://catsploration.gitlab.io/citations for a full list of creators!
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Copycat
Copycat is a heartfelt experience that’s perfect to cuddle up with on a rainy afternoon or get lost in during a long train ride.
The story follows Dawn, a pampered indoor cat, that becomes the target of an elaborate plan when a jealous stray look-alike steals her place in the home. See the world through Dawn’s eyes as she faces magpies, mud, and garden gnomes. Wander alleyways, fences and rooftops, looking for the warmth of human connection in a cold, dark world.
The reflective pacing of the game allows you the opportunity to indulge in the emotions of love, loneliness and letting go as you progress through the story.
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Kakatte Koi Yo!
Captures cute and fun, whimsy with a competitive spirit. It’s great as a party game, but with a slight learning curve.
I love the art and the music is great! And while it seems like a simple concept, some levels feature some creatively ingenious designs.
This is definitely staying in my party game rotation
– Real player with 7.5 hrs in game
This game combines cute graphics with awesome fighting mechanics, Choose your catacter (pun intended) and get ready for battle. With the single player training and the ability to play with your friends on remote play makes it 100% better. If you have some money lying around and a friend, you can enjoy some good time with your friend.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Milli & Greg
Lovely little platformer in the spirit of Celeste, Super Meat Boy and Kaizo Mario Romhacks, super charming and original.
Each level is a one screen precision platforming challenges to rescue the kitty (Save the Animals!). Beautiful artwork and the soundtrack is a banger.
The difficulty is a little all over the place. Hard levels are followed by easy ones and vice verse. But the game never became repetitive thanks to a wide variety of obstacles. I hope to see more!
– Real player with 14.0 hrs in game
Sure at first look it reminds you of Celeste, but don’t get fooled, it’s entirely its own thing. The level mechanics and physics makes it feel unique. I’m loving the art style and music, will definitely finish it!
EDIT
Just 100%ed the game. What an experience! The last episodes are a thrill. So satisfactory. If you’re a platformer fan do yourself a favor and play it!
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Cattails | Become a Cat!
There are two kinds of gamers: those who can enjoy life sims, and those who cannot. Some people need the game to show them “this is what your goal is,” and others are very happy to invent their own goals regardless of whether or not the game gives you one. If you’re in that latter category, then by all means, I recommend this game to you. Especially if you like cats. Otherwise… you’ll probably find yourself growing bored right after the tutorial.
Although I feel like this was pretty ingenious–of course you have no goal at first. You’re a housecat that was dumped off into the middle of nowhere! Your first few days should be spent learning how to survive. THEN you can come up with something to do. (And the game provides you with a main quest a few days later, so there’s that.)
– Real player with 192.1 hrs in game
If you haven’t gotten Stardew Valley yet, get that instead…but check this game out after you’re done with it and wait for a sale.
Presentation:
Great music. Decent pixel art for he environment. Although I’m not a fan of the character portraits. I would have preferred it looked like the stylized digitally drawn characters in the main menu.
Main Story:
What you can consider the main story is the Temple at the near center of the map that requires you to gather unique resources and items from all over the map to “restore the balance” and revive the Forest Guardian. Gamplay wise it’s a standard affair. What makes Cattails unique is that there are little puzzle rooms that you have to do after completing a bundle. Half are decent at best puzzles and the other half are boring combat trials that require a key that can only be received by having good relations with other cat colonies. There 6 bundles with 4 milestones- for completing the first, third, fifth, and last.
– Real player with 93.0 hrs in game
Nyaa-kuza!!
The UI, level hub, and main menu art assets are absolutely gorgeous, and it seems like there’s a lot of content to play through. There are a ton of different characters in the dialogue sequences but I don’t think it gets to the point of being overwhelming. I also really enjoy certain aspects of the combat, like choosing between different kinds of weapons (including a catzooka??!), and the falling clothesline; I hope there’s more interactive environments like that. It’s so obvious that hours and hours of love went into the making of this game.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
I love the art style of the menu and character portraits as well as the music, however the sprites for the fight section just don’t really match everything else. In fight segments, I found you can easily just push against enemies and swing your katana at them which prevents them from attacking back. The boss fights however gave a better fight.
Personally, I think it would work better with a non pixel-like look for the fight segments and change the fights to just boss fights, each with their own moveset as even on Hard, the regular enemies were no threat at all.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
Russian Subway Dogs
8/10: Russian Subway Dogs is a fun, silly arcade game of barking, snatching food out of the air, and surviving the hazards of the Russian subway like bears and chocolate bars. MOLODETS!
Russian Subway Dogs is based on a true, real-life occurrence of stray dogs in Russia using the subways to commute into the city in order to find better food, the commuting back to the suburbs for safer places to sleep. Choose from a collection of referential dogs and cats and get to filling your belly with shawarma and burgers before the other dogs and animals.
– Real player with 33.2 hrs in game
Oh c’mon this is a fantastic arcade game with a ton of charm and meat-on-the-bone. Yeah, the price is off-putting at first, but I assure you this is top quality stuff. There is a solid campaign mode that helps you learn the ropes in steps. There is an endless mode complete with Steam Leaderboards. And lots of awesome unlockable characters that are largely cameos from other indie games. It’s surprising how much great diversity they crammed in here. Finally, the pixel art and music couldn’t be better.
– Real player with 31.4 hrs in game
Slayer Cat
Slayer Cat is a classic action shooter game that combines hand-drawn drawings with classic gameplay. Inspired by games like Contra, Doom, and Cuphead.
Play as The Slayer Cat as you traverse strange places on an enemy planet, get new weapons, improve your powers, and discover who is behind the evil creations of that planet!
Gato Roboto
This game is simply great. There’s no other way to describe it.
The gameplay is fluid and challenging, specially the bosses, many of which took me quite some tries to defeat. Apart from that, this game also has a big exploration aspect. It’s pretty much what you’d expect from good metroidvania game.
The soundtrack is quite enjoyable. None of the tracks are masterpieces, but the game plays the right ones at the right time and some of them are really catchy.
The story isn’t an important aspect in this game and it doesn’t take itself too seriously because, well, it’s a game about a cat fighting space monsters in a mecha. It’s ok and somewhat interesting from time to time. However, I think the ending was weird and kind of a let down since (SPOILERS)
! the entire premise of the game is that you need to rescue your owner but you don’t do it, which makes you fill a bit empty. Apart from that, there’s nothing remarkable about this aspect of the game.
– Real player with 62.1 hrs in game
After responding to a distress signal and crashing your spaceship into the facility you planned to investigate, you find yourself pinned and unable to do anything more than give orders; consequently, a grave responsibility falls onto the shoulders of your feline friend who must set aside napping in his favorite spot and set out on a perilous trek to save his human.
Gato Roboto is a monochromatic metroidvania in the style of classic NES and Game Boy games, and it nails that look and feel. Despite appearing black-and-white in the screenshots, you’ll run across more than one dozen cartridges throughout the game world which allow you to change the primary color of the graphics, so don’t let the color palette scare you away.
– Real player with 7.1 hrs in game