Sneaky Kitten
Sneaky Kitten is a family-friendly non-violence game, where you play as a cat to collect coins and other trinkets. Do this by solving problems and sneaking past some non-friendly dogs.
Play as a cat!
Have fun playing as a cat! Experience the excitement of being a fluffy cat who can run and jump around in fun levels. The goal of the game is to sneak around the enemies (that are dogs) and steal their treasures.
Exciting stealth gameplay
Dogs are patrolling the area around the treasures. To steal them you have to be very sneaky to pass the dogs, finding paths where the dogs can’t spot you and sometimes distract them from their original path, then quickly sneak past them before they come back to spot you.
Non-Violence
We know that most family-friendly games today include violence. Our philosophy at Eight Lives is to avoid violence, which is why we have made Sneaky Kitten without violence.
Problem solving
Sneaky Kitten is a game with tricky problems to solve and situations to get out of.
Collectibles
Throughout the game there will be trinkets you can steal from the dogs, unrelated to the main mission. Steal all the collectables and you might get a reward!
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Rain City
Very good game
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
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Rain City has about 3 hours of content and a nice aesthetic for such a low price, but there are some problems with puzzle logic and interface. I noticed that ‘Cotton Game’ is not listed as the developer, so I wonder if they were involved with this project on the creative level - I would expect more polish from them if they were. Overall, the puzzles are very similar to the previous games, and they can be somewhat challenging if not a little heavy on the moon logic. I also had a few problems with the atmosphere when it comes to the soundtrack. In my opinion, there are too many rooms that don’t have any music, that being said, I think most of the songs are enjoyable. While I understand that devs were trying to use the silence strategically, it was just too much and made the game feel empty. Additionally, the game is a bit glitchy, but I only had to reset the game one time when my character got stuck in the animation. Some of the interface problems are more frequent, there are all kinds of issues involving pixel hunting.
– Real player with 5.3 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?
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머준이의 사건파일 ~쌍둥이 저택의 비밀~
Animators need to take a break, too. That’s why they went to that workshop.
Of course, they took all their gear with them, but they were happy about the change of pace.
That is, until the night when they wandered into that mansion after getting lost…
Despite being empty, it still seemed that the mansion was well looked after.
However, while they were all in bed that night, a terrible thing happened that none of them could anticipate.
Was this merely an accident? Or did someone plan this? Mujun decides to do some detective work and get to the bottom of this case himself.
Explore the scenes and solves puzzles in the mansion to reveal the truth.
Who is the culprit? And what exactly happened in this mansion?
Key Features
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Eye-catching and unique pixel-art graphics
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Deeply immersive storyline
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Simple yet fun puzzles.
-Unexpected and interesting multiple game endings.
The Good Life
Just to play through and do the main quest… eh it’s alright. Quirky but it’s fine, just play it then go do another game and forget it ever existed.
To get invested in and mess around? Hell no lol.
From release this was a janky mess of game-breakers and softlocks. The biggest of which was at least patched out (storage).
The content of the game is entirely just “go get this” with everything a convoluted web of ingredients upon ingredients of which everything is a rare drop except meat. Little to no emphasis nor encouragement when it comes being a photographer. Even with thousands of followers, keeping up with the trends on Flamingo barely gives you a few hundred a week so it’s not worth the effort when you could be running around hitting rocks or getting your daily time trial allowance.
– Real player with 170.3 hrs in game
Kickstarter backer here, so my review shows as a CD Key review, and will not count towards the overall review score.
That out of the way…
recommending with some serious caveats.
It’s a SWERY game, but not a ‘typical" SWERY game.
Weird, messy, a bit sloppy, a more Eastern POV and stereotype of life in the UK and the West.
Kb/m controls are quite clunky. Controller is better, if the game and Steam recognize your controller (PS4/PS5 recommended- the game seems to reuse towork properly with my XBox One controller).
– Real player with 141.0 hrs in game
Victoria Clair and the Mystery Express
A short but charming Professor Layton-esque murder mystery/puzzle game. There is roughly two or three hours of gameplay depending on how long the puzzles take you.
The puzzles are clever and there is a good mix of challenging/simple puzzles.
The dialogue is enjoyable if not a little cheesy at times!
I thoroughly enjoyed the clever deduction system at the end.
I highly recommend giving this game a go, especially as it’s free!
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
A really nice little puzzler.
While the presentation is functional rather than stunning, this doesn’t matter in the slightest. I actually found it quite charming. The focus is on the puzzles. Having said that, the music is great and the story/dialog are both well written and at times quite funny too.
The puzzles come from a wide variety of types, and are all individually implemented very well. Considering that separate code has been written for each, the interface is nicely polished.
Being generally interested in puzzles, I’d come across many of these classics before. But it was still fun to work them out again. And there were still a few which made me think quite a bit to be confident of solving them all first go.
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
while True: learn()
After finishing the whole game, despite of my strong objections that I’ve written about in my original review (below), I’ve decided to change my review into thumbs up.
It took me some time to analyze my thoughts, and while I still have strong objections about inconsistency of various gameplay mechanics, the game truly has a charm, is well done and doesn’t deserve negative review, even if as a programmer purely analyzing the consistency of the gameplay I’d rate it negatively without a second thought.
– Real player with 30.3 hrs in game
Let me start off by saying that I actually really enjoyed playing the game. The challenges are fun to solve and while they generally were not very difficult, I often found myself going back to old exercises and solving them in different ways.
Nevertheless, with the current state of the game, I cannot recommend it since there are just too many flaws that I cannot overlook even for an early access title.
Many of these are easily fixable,which is why I will go over the major problems one by one so that the developer(s) can consider my feedback.
– Real player with 25.1 hrs in game
Flavortown
“Third Update”
All control mapping is now working and is smooth and easy to use. Playing through for a second time was more enjoyable without fighting these.
I know mappings may seem like a “small thing to be updated” but the speed the devs have done it and their updates was what stopped me from refunding and got me to play through twice.
Keen for episode 2.
“Original Review”
This game does seem like it could be good, unfortunately running on a Vive it seems that the controls do no function and you’re unable to proceed past the initial starting point.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
Game is good to play I know that bugs are going to be happen but they’ll work on it for sure
– Real player with 3.1 hrs in game
Animal Doctor
its not what i expected. you dont get to run your own vet practice. you dont even get your own house or anything. very short game. not very fun.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
The devs have apparently never seen an American farm or talked to a real vet. The hillbilly music playing constantly in the background isn’t bad, per se (it’s pretty good, for what it is), but I don’t particularly like that style of music. And not everyone who lives in the country is a hillbilly, for gods sake. So why that music? If they added some alternate tracks, I’d be okay with it.
But the main problem is that it’s goofy. No vet would send an intern to scrounge around in the forest for “healing herbs” (which he can’t even identify) or let him be sidetracked into becoming a delivery boy for the local farmers. He’s ON THE CLOCK. Not to mention the fact that farmers don’t generally leave clumps of goat cheese and bottles of milk just lying around the farm to collect later.
– Real player with 1.5 hrs in game
The Nine Lives of Nim: Fortune’s Fool
A very charming SIM/Visual Novel hybrid about a cat faerie called Nim who is tasked to search for her prince in a city called Valora.
You have 1 month to increase your stats than can trigger storylines of different Shakespeare characters and get several endings that shapes the fate of Nim. 1 month doesn’t seem like a lot but this game has a lot of storylines, which actually made me interested with Shakespeare’s works. Not to mention a lot of endings and different ending variations that gives this a high replay value. It was enjoyable and addiction to the end.
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
A traditional stat-raising life simulation game with interesting new approaches.
The mechanics are very simple, but there is a lot of depth to be found in the different plotlines and how actions affect the game and endings. The protagonist’s three forms as cat, spirit, and human adds a unique layer of complexity.
I definitively recommend this game for fans of the genre.
– Real player with 9.8 hrs in game