Spooky Cats
Spooky Cats, an action inde platformer made by Russpuppy is a masterpeice, and here’s why.
Ever since I was a little boy I’ve always been scared of cats. They would meow at me, or even try to attack me before I ran away with great speed. At first, I though this game would be horrible, that it would be a really bad steam game and thats it, boy was I wrong.
The start of the game made me almost stop play instantly, I do not like cats, and even less when they are spooky. I managed to load up the game and play the first level. I felt amazing. Killing all the spooky cats I have been fighting for years. I powerd through the entire game in 1 sitting, and then I played it again. Amazed by the final boss and its dialog, and by the number of different mobs and sprites there was in the game I kept playing, and it was amazing.
– Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
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When I picked this up, I honestly thought I was just going to waste a dollar. There aren’t many non-sarcastic reviews on here, so I really had no idea what was in store.
This is a freaking adorable little puzzle-platformer. The puzzles are pretty easy; find the key, open the lock, find the little girl and reunite her with the ghost. The levels have slight branching as you get further in, but not to the point where you end up lost. The music is really solid; even though there’s only three tracks, they’re pretty enjoyable. One of them is a bit startling, being louder and faster than the other two, but still surprisingly fitting. The controls are dependable and glitch-free, which isn’t always the case in an indie platformer. Hit detection is actually spot-on, a welcome change from some of the other atrocities I’ve picked up on coupon. Really, my only complaint thus far is that I can’t spend all those pennies I’ve been picking up. o.0
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
The Beast Awoke To Eat Your Darlings
Nightmares are haunting you. Set in a variety of different places, they play out in a similar way: there’s a Beast keeping cats in cages. As the Beast gets hungry, they eat a cat. And then another. And so on. The Beast doesn’t like you: if they see you, they start chasing you, and better they don’t catch you – feeling your head being chopped off is quite unpleasant. Luckily there’s always a way out, usually on top of something. Maybe it’s a hot air balloon on top of a skyscraper, or a mysterious door sitting on a cloud… who knows what else. Get there to escape your nightmare. It’s fine to get out by yourself. Best though if you manage to also save all those pets. They feel extremely dear to you. You’ll discover why (as well as discovering what’s actually behind all of these absurdities) if you succeed in beating your nightmare. So go ahead, find a key to open those cages; do also find bracelets to buy catnip (there’s always this weirdo around, he sells you things in exchange for bracelets), so that cats will follow you… up to that door on that cloud.
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Hand crafted nightmares (“levels”) tailored to offer a variety of creative ways to reach your goals;
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AI that’s easy to understand, yet never fully predictable;
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A variety of items to help you in your quest: insta-growing Vines to let you climb walls, Wonderglass to make you invisible, Bubbletrap to trap the Beast, and more;
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Why the cats? Why the Beast? Discover how each element in your nightmares is actually connected to a past you’ve long forgotten;
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Granular scoring system and leaderboards provide a never ending challenge;
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Personalize your experience through “interviews with your therapist” that affect the way the game looks and feel
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Bear’s Restaurant
There’s not too much I can say without absolutely ruining this beautiful and unique experience. Bear’s Restaurant more than exceeded my expectations and blew the lid off of the general idea of what a game is or what a game contains. I almost feel bad for calling it a game its much more than that, it’s an experience and a journey that I don’t think I will forget about. So, since it would be too easy to spoil by going in depth with an analysis I will try to be vague and only discuss specifics that have no bearing on experiencing this masterpiece. The game at its core is about a waiter/waitress cat, taking the last and favorite meals of people before they take their final train beyond the realm of existence to heaven. This is done by “diving” into memories to find out what those foods tasted like and peering into their lives and final moments alive.
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
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Bear’s Restaurant is a touching story about life, death, friends, and family. It’s hard for me to really explain my feelings about this game concisely, but I have to say it’s one of the best I’ve ever played.
The updated translation also makes it so much more enjoyable now! I love this game, and I hope you love it too.
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
Cats and the Other Lives
Through the eyes of a cat,
Into the memories of a family.
Following the passing of grandfather Bernard, all of the remaining members of the Mason Family returned to their childhood home once again.
As Aspen, their house cat, players will touch the hopes, disappointments and regrets of the enigmatic Mason family, traversing through a rich narrative that spans over decades.
The game embraces a simple yet intuitive point and click play style, emphasizing design elements based around the behaviors of common house cats seen around the world.
Is the cat just a witness, or does this animal have a more mysterious role in our lives than we anticipate?
Hidden Paws Mystery
Cats!
I will now list the things that definitively mean you will enjoy this game
| Like Cats? | Buy this game |
| Like cute art? | Buy this game |
| Have $5 to spend? | Buy this game |
| Have 4 hours to kill? | Buy this game |
| Have anger issues? | Buy this game |
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
Of the three games currently published on Steam under the “Hidden Paws” franchise, Hidden Paws Mystery is undoubtedly the most beautiful one. Manic Hyena outdid themselves this time, by crafting 20 unique and mirific worlds, full of mystery and enchantment. A hut in a forest of fireflies, a spooky mansion stranded on an island, a forest of gigantic mushrooms or a surreal chess board lost in space - each of these seems to tell its own distinctive story. They do have one thing in common though: cats and their yarns, hiding as well as possible from your snooping eye. You’ll have to find them all despite them having mastered the art of deceit.
– Real player with 3.4 hrs in game
Nyan Cat: Lost In Space
Games are often judged under 3 categories: Story, Visual Graphics, and Soundtrack.
Nyan Cat takes all the cake, the table and the entire buffet.
The story involves around the creature, nyan cat, in search for what has been lost by travelling through different dimensions and facing danger. On the journey, nyan cat gets access to different magical artifacts that help nyan cat on the journey while collecting lactose and fighting off against the evil.
The visual graphics are just fantastic. Most modern games today such as CoD, Halo, etc, all have the same problem: THere is too much going on the screen that it makes it hard on what to focus, to finish the objective, etc. And the biggest problem of modern games: motion blur. It just makes a beautiful game in this muddy madness, it’s like your character or what not is always drunk and it’s about to collapse. Now take a look at nyan cat. The graphics are minimalistic, and nyan cat just contrasts against the background, making it very easy to see, and not just nyan cat, also the items and enemy, they are contrasted against the background. The HUD is also very simple and straight to the point.
– Real player with 223.4 hrs in game
Nyan Cat: Lost in Space is a casual game inspired by the Nyan Cat meme. In it, you play as the eponymous cat as he flies through space, collecting milk, cake, donuts and such. If I had to describe the gameplay, I’d say it’s an autoscrolling platformer; you can’t really make Nyan Cat go back, he always moves forward; your control is limited to jumps, though there’s two powerups that allow for a more directional control over the Y-axis. Your goal is simply to get as far as you can, and get as high a score as possible, while avoiding falling to the bottom of the screen, or hitting TNT, both of which end your game. There’s also a few hazards in the form of enemies like a dog, Tac Nayn (evil Nyan Cat) and UFOs.
– Real player with 17.3 hrs in game
Etched Memories Demo
EDIT: Bottom of this reivew for some updates
This is such a beautiful game already!
A beautiful homage to cats (the developers used their real kitty sounds, and pictures) and their perspective of the world.
It makes you feel tiny and defenseless, but at the same time smart and cunning.
There already are some incredible elements to be taken into account, first and foremost, the atmospheric poignancy. With the 3D audio enabled, it really feels like being immersed in a rainy forest!
The story is extremely promising, and all the little details and collectibles scattered throughout the map make exploration meaningful…
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
I recommend this game strictly on the idea of being able to play as a cat, this game needs work!!!!!!
The idea of playing as a cat and having an adventure is probably a dream for 90% of gamer’s out there…..I completely understand everyone’s frustration when it came to playing this game. Here were some of the issues I ran into:
Controlling the cat is just odd, it doesn’t feel like true 360 to turn around. I know I see him in 3rd but I feel like i’m still turning in 1st person….if that makes sense?
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
HellCat
Stars received: 1.9/10 _ Note: v.5 [0.0 to 1] = personal impressions
[0.5] Controls & Training & Help
[0.1] Menu & Settings
[0.2] Sound & Music
[0.3] Graphics
[0.3] Game Design
[0] Game Story
[0.3] Game Content
[0] Completion time (level/game)?
[0.2] is it Enjoyable & Fun?
[0] Could it hold a spot in Favorites? (& if the Game can be repeatedly played again)
[0] BONUS point: Multi-Player related
[0] BONUS point: Review for VR
[N] - if Registration is required with providing PII
Game description key-points: kind of Hard-Core survival
– Real player with 11.4 hrs in game
I’m pretty simple, if I see a game with a cat in it, I buy, so I didn’t realize when I bought Hellcat that it was released this month! And I also didn’t realize it was a Russian game translated to English and only had one English review lol. I figured with that considered, I would write a review for other users considering to buy the title, since there isn’t a lot of information given. I have played through the entire game, and played through level 1-7 four times. I have all of the achievements. There is ten levels overall, the first seven are solo, then a boss battle, then two levels were you must control both the Hellcat and his girlfriend, and then the end transitions into a fight against the GrandBoss. This game is very, very fastpaced and brutal. One hit will auto kill you, and there is no checkpoints, so players will go back to the very beginning of the level to try again.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
The Cat Lady
What a masterpiece of a game. Wow.
Art, original music, and writing are all superb. Graphics could have been more detailed, but the art style makes the graphical detail (resolution) not as important, and even more fitting in a way for the darker and grainier feel to the game. Voice acting is some of the best I’ve heard in a game making all the characters believable and worthy of your investment in them. Especially the main female protagonist, who is very unique for the gaming world and isn’t constrained by the typical gaming tropes.
– Real player with 40.9 hrs in game
The Cat Lady… Perhaps a boring game for many, but when you get into it, and you really understand the story, believe me, you can’t stop playing it, and it intrigues you to know what fate and death have saved for Susan Ashworth, a solitary and depressive woman, whose only company in life are the cats, whom she calls while playing the piano to see them and feed them; the only beings in the world who seem to understand her and diminish her grief, even knowing that they don’t speak, and they’ll never answer her, at least, not in words. Susan is fully convinced that life doesn’t make enough sense to her; is convinced that no one needs her, and no one will miss her the day she ceases to exist. After her suicide attempt, she has a new opportunity to live (..to live..), and she has an opportunity to do the right thing and eliminate people who, according to the old woman named “The Queen of Maggots”, are Parasites, the scum itself, and that they have no right to continue living, ‘cause of the damage and pain they cause in other people. Susan cannot refuse, and for this, she has been granted a gift, coveted and desired by many, too much for others, and utterly disastrous and meaningless for Susan: Immortality.
– Real player with 37.2 hrs in game
Another Sight - Hodge’s Journey
This was fun! The graphics were pleasing on Ultra. Not sure why my frames were capped at 62 FPS? V-Sync on or off did nothing, changing graphics from Ultra to Low did no difference, so that’s a bit odd. I found a glitch that allowed me to get outside of the map, sometimes exploring even more, it varies. You could only get to the edge of the map in spots and then fall off so nothing too over powered. Other than that, it was fun, very short but that’s the point. I’d recommend giving it a shot, fun little adventure overall. Played almost 2 hours just to speed run it once I beat it the first time.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Pros:
~Lovely menu UI;
~Nice background setting;
~Cute cat, reminds me of Garfield;
~It’s free.
Cons:
~Limited video & audio settings;
~Game automatically sets the video settings on “Epic”;
~Clunky controls;
~No way to turn off blur;
~In the second level (basement/lab) I couln’t even get on the higher ground (on the pipes that are at the beggining of the level).
That was the point where that was enough for me.
If you are going to design a platforming game or a game with platforming levels at least be sure that the platforms are actually reachable.
– Real player with 0.9 hrs in game