#catlateral damage

10 Purr-fect Games Where Cats Are The Focus

Cats are wonderful pets, regular featured stars of silly Tiktoks, and cute as can be. So, I can think of no better subject to build an entire game around, and if you agree, then you are in the right place, as we intend to highlight some purr-fect feline video games where cats take center stage. I've got the cat nip, so follow me!

Check them out!

First-cat feline rampage sim Catlateral Damage is back on Switch😹

We first covered Catlateral Damage seven(!?!?!?!) years ago, when our mascot was discovered in an early version of the game. Now, we've all grown a little, we've all learned some hard lessons, and it's time to reconnect with our old friend Catlateral Damage on Switch, where it appears in its "Remeowstered" form. From the eShop page:

• A complete progression redesign • More objects to topple and interact with • 20+ new pet photos, bringing the total to almost 300 • Brand new tasks to complete • Persistent stat boosts and abilities • Revamped cat models and animations • Overall improvements to UI, animations, and effects

1. Children of Morta - Rogue-lites best genre. Fight me.

2. Inscryption - Not making my list of all-time-favorite games, but it fascinates me to no end nevertheless. And the Scrybes are genuinely some of my favorite video game characters ever.

3. Cloud Gardens - This was super addicting and I can’t for the life of me explain why. I’ve played these sorts of sandbox art games before and haven’t liked them, but the puzzle/scenario aspect of this game kept it moving in a way that made it hard to put down.

4. Everhood - The moral of this game is “Murder is okay because there’s an afterlife.” Which. Um. Good thing those battles are fun as heck, amiright?

5. Night Reverie - This is a game for children, and I am not a children. But it was cute. I liked it.

6. Catlateral Damage - Stupid fun! Our other two cats do not knock stuff over but our new kitten does; I think if I’d played this after we got her I might have liked it slightly less lmao

7. Sable - I think I was pretty unfair to this game because of the whole, you know. Off my meds, major depressive episode thing. I could definitely see myself in the mindset to explore the world more thoroughly, but I was not in that mindset at the time when it mattered.

8. Rain World - I’m not one for survival sandbox type games, but I think I actually would have liked this one more if it was this open-ended “Survive as long as you can while exploring as much as you can” type of deal. That’s not what it is, though. There’s an implicit story, which means there’s an implicit goal, and the game gives you little to no feedback about how close you are to reaching that goal. You just know that it’s there and it nags at you.

9. Lavender - There was one really bad puzzle early on (the chess one) that made me put the whole game down for a week. Once I came back to it it wasn’t so awful.

This is a PC game currently on steam for €2.04

If you liked Untitled Goose Game for letting you to be an annoying little shit with no consequences (in-game or out of it) then this might be one for you!

It’s super basic graphic wise, and basically you are a cat left alone in a house full of things that could be knocked down. Which you are encouraged to do, with a cheery little tune to accompany you. You jump to shelves, on top of things, into cupboards, and you just knock shit down. That’s it, that’s the game.

There are powerups to make you jump higher or swat harder, and sometimes there’s random ‘moon gravity’ so you can jump fully across a room for 30 seconds (handy for that elusive high shelf). One hilarious powerup is Catnip, which makes you go super fast and swat super hard for 30 seconds. (there’s psychedelic lighting effects, but you can turn those off in the settings)

I recommend a controller, and physically it’s a little heavy on the trigger finger, but the ‘litterbox mode’ is untimed, and I find it very playable.

Also, there is a level where you’re in a museum and you (improbably) can actually knock over the giant dinosaur skeleton.