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9 Of The Best Cat Games
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12/11/2024
If playing Stray has got you in the mood for some more feline adventures we have the purr-fect thing for you.
Here's a list of 9 of the best Cat games to let you live out your kitty dreams in every way imaginable.
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If playing Stray has got you in the mood for some more feline adventures, we have the perfect
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thing for you.
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Yes, we went there.
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Anyway, coming up is a complete list of the best cat games to live out your kitty dreams
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in every way imaginable.
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Take a look and see if any of them yank your whiskers and let us know your favourites.
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What are you going to play next?
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Or any other cat games we've missed that we should have included?
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Let us know in the comments below.
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Okay, it's a decade old 3DS game, and cats will never forgive Nintendo for giving them
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second billing, but Nintendogs plus Cats is still one of the best cat games ever made.
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Its adorable recreation of kitty breeds gives you your choice of fuzzy pals to befriend,
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and if you play with 3D enabled, it really does feel like you're staring through a little
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window into their home.
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Unfortunately, you can't teach the kittens tricks or take them out into town like you
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can with their puppy counterparts, but they will sneak off and bring you gifts every now
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and again to show you they care.
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None of the gifts are dead birds or mice, but it's okay to sacrifice realism every now
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and again.
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The true essence of being a cat is really about being a bit of a dick, and cat lateral
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damage channels that perfectly as you leap around procedurally generated environments
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in search of breakable stuff to knock over.
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Occasionally a special event will pop up where maybe you can chase and catch a mouse, but
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ultimately it's all about that sweet destructive satisfaction.
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Cat lateral damage is good fun to play as a standard flat screen experience, but it's
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even better when you can play it in VR with full motion control pause for an even more
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immersive arsehole cat experience.
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A game about a girl who can control gravity might not seem like an obvious cat game, but
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the girl in question is called Cat with a K and she gets all of her pals from a mysterious
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space cat who looks like stars, which is definitely a level up on the cat coolness ladder.
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Space cat is called Dusty and is your constant companion in the game.
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You never control them directly, but they're always there, wandering around doing magic
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cat stuff whenever you stand idle for more than a few seconds.
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So what if Samus Aran was a cat, but still did pretty much all of the same stuff?
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Then you'd basically be playing Gata Roboto, a retro side-scroller that pairs its Metroid
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inspired action with stylish lo-fi pixel art and music.
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A spaceship's cat called Kiki must continue her human's mission by curling up in a suit
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of armour and blasting through caverns full of hostile creatures, but she'll also need
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to pop out occasionally to take advantage of her feline agility and smaller size when
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that giant robo-armour gets in the way.
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Gata Roboto is a brief and minimalist Metroid style experience that's perfect when you need
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a little bit more cat action in your life.
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Night in the Woods is a game about coming home, finding it's changed, not being sure
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how you feel about that, but most importantly, you play as a cat.
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May, the cat in question, is a deeply conflicted character who lives in a crumbling rust belt
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town and occasionally indulges in breaking stuff for the sake of breaking stuff as she
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tries to get on with her life.
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Which is very cat.
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Okay, so everybody's some kind of anthropomorphic animal in this world and nobody ever makes
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a big deal about it.
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But the last thing Night in the Woods wants to do is lay out a deep lore backstory to
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explain the animal people thing.
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The important thing is May is one of the best video game cats around.
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What good is recreating a digital version of yourself and giving them the perfect home
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if your cat isn't there to throw up on the floor and ruin the sofa?
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The base version of The Sims 4 doesn't include pets, but as the name suggests, the Sims 4
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Cats and Dogs expansion is all over it.
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You start off by creating your third friend with a character creation suite with options
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and flexibilities to rival its Sims counterpart.
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Then you can add them to your family and feel your heart swell.
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You can't control your pets directly, which is especially realistic for cats, but there
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are a bunch of ways for your Sims to care for them and interact with them.
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You can even open up your own veterinary clinic as a business if a house full of animal pals
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isn't enough.
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The true endgame of Animal Crossing's New Horizons is, obviously, assembling an island
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of nothing but cat villagers.
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Sure, there are plenty of other species of villagers to meet, and they're all perfectly
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good, but cats?
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Plus is it any coincidence that Raymond, the most sought after villager in the entire New
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Horizons community, is himself a cat?
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I think not.
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Engineering the perfect setting for a bunch of ingrates who lounge around on all the furniture
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like they own the place is also an incredibly realistic cat owner experience.
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Super Mario 3D World introduced Cat Mario, giving the most heroic plumber the ability
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to scratch, climb walls, and dive through the air with the grace of a cat, chasing after
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another cat.
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This was all included in Bowser's Fury, a new adventure added to the Switch release
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of 3D World.
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It all unfolds in a strange corner of Super Mario's world, where everything except Bowser
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is some kind of cat.
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The goombas, the shines, the trees, the architecture, everything.
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Never before has the Mario franchise been this deeply invested in all things feline,
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and perhaps it never will be again.
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And finally, the game that brought us all together to start with.
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How could we not put this as our number one cat game?
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Not only does Stray let you push things off ledges, walk through paint, and leave little
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paw print trails, and scratch trees until your claws are content, but there's a beautiful
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story underneath its furry coat.
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This game will make you laugh, cry, and purr, literally if you're playing on the PS5 DualSense,
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as the controller will purr along with you.
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Placing Stray as our number one cat game just makes sense, and we hope you get a chance
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to step into the furry feet of its protagonist soon.
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It's worth it.
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Trust us.
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So, what's your favourite cat game on this list, or is there another one that you prefer
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that we didn't mention?
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Let us know in the comments below.
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