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9 Of The Best Cat Games
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08/07/2025
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
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purrfect thing for you. Yes, we went there. Anyway, coming up is a complete list of the
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best cat games to live out your kitty dreams in every way imaginable. Take a look and see
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if any of them yank your whiskers and let us know your favourites. What are you going to
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play next or any other cat games we've missed that we should have included? Let us know in
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the comments below. Okay, it's a decade-old 3DS game and cats will never forgive Nintendo
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for giving them 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 window
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into their home. Unfortunately, you can't teach the kittens tricks or take them out into town
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like you can with their puppy counterparts, but they will sneak off and bring you gifts
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every now and again to show you they care. None of the gifts are dead birds or mice,
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but it's okay to sacrifice realism every now and again.
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Hi, my name is Cookie. I am a cat.
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The true essence of being a cat is really about being a bit of a dick,
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and cat lateral damage channels that perfectly as you leap around procedurally generated environments
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in search of breakable stuff to knock over. Occasionally a special event will pop up
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where maybe you can chase and catch a mouse, but ultimately it's all about that sweet destructive
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satisfaction. Cat lateral damage is good fun to play as a standard flat screen experience,
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but it's even better when you can play it in VR with full motion control pause for an even more
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immersive asshole cat experience. A game about a girl who can control gravity might not seem like
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an obvious cat game, but the girl in question is called Cat with a K, and she gets all of her
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pals from a mysterious space cat who looks like stars, which is definitely a level up on the cat
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coolness ladder. Space cat is called Dusty and is your constant companion in the game. You never control
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them directly, but they're always there, wandering around doing magic cat stuff whenever you stand
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idle for more than a few seconds. So what if Samus Aran was a cat, but still did pretty much all of
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the same stuff? Then you'd basically be playing Gata Roboto, a retro side-scroller that pairs its
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Metroid-inspired action with stylish lo-fi pixel art and music. A spaceship's cat called Kiki must
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continue a human's mission by curling up in a suit of armour and blasting through caverns full of
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hostile creatures, but she'll also need to pop out occasionally to take advantage of her feline
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agility and smaller size when that giant robo-armour gets in the way. Gata Roboto is a brief and
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minimalist Metroid-style experience that's perfect when you need a little bit more cat action in your life.
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Night in the Woods is a game about coming home, finding its change, not being sure how you feel
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about that. But most importantly, you play as a cat. May, the cat in question, is a deeply conflicted
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character who lives in a crumbling rust belt town and occasionally indulges in breaking stuff for
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the sake of breaking stuff as she tries to get on with her life, which is very cat. Okay, so everybody's
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some kind of anthropomorphic animal in this world and nobody ever makes a big deal about it. But the
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last thing Night in the Woods wants to do is lay out a deep lore backstory to explain the animal
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people thing. The important thing is May is one of the best video game cats around.
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Meet Katerina. She's a totally normal cat person. What good is recreating a digital version of yourself
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and giving them the perfect home 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,
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The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs expansion is all over it. You start off by creating your third friend with a
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character creation suite with options and flexibilities to rival its Sims counterpart. Then you can add them
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to your family and feel your heart swell. You can't control your pets directly, which is especially
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realistic for cats, but there are a bunch of ways for your Sims to care for them and interact with
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them. You can even open up your own veterinary clinic as a business if a house full of animal
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pals isn't enough.
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The true endgame of Animal Crossing's New Horizons is, obviously, assembling an island of nothing but
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cat villagers. Sure, there are plenty of other species of villagers to meet, and they're all
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perfectly good. But cats? Plus, is it any coincidence that Raymond, the most sought-after villager in the
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entire New Horizons community, is himself a cat? I think not. Engineering the perfect setting for
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a bunch of ingrates who lounge around on all of the furniture like they own the place is also an
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incredibly realistic cat-owner experience.
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Super Mario 3D World introduced Cat Mario, giving the most heroic plumber the ability to scratch, climb
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walls, and dive through the air with the grace of a cat, chasing after another cat. This was all included in
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Bowser's Fury, a new adventure added to the Switch release of 3D World. It all unfolds in a strange corner of
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Super Mario's world, where everything except Bowser is some kind of cat. The Goombas, the shines, the trees,
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the architecture, everything. Never before has the Mario franchise been this deeply invested in all
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things feline, and perhaps it never will be again.
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And finally, the game that brought us all together to start with. How could we not put this as our
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number one cat game? Not only does Stray let you push things off ledges, walk through paint, and leave
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little paw print trails, and scratch trees until your claws are content, but there's a beautiful story
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underneath its furry coat. This game will make you laugh, cry, and purr, literally if you're playing
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on the PS5 DualSense, as the controller will purr along with you. Placing Stray as our number one
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cat game just makes sense, and we hope you get a chance to step into the furry feet of its protagonist soon.
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It's worth it. Trust us.
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So, what's your favourite cat game on this list, or is there another one that you prefer that we didn't mention?
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