00:04If playing Stray has got you in the mood for some more feline adventures we have the
00:09purrfect thing for you. Yes, we went there. Anyway, coming up is a complete list of the
00:14best cat games to live out your kitty dreams in every way imaginable. Take a look and see
00:18if any of them yank your whiskers and let us know your favourites. What are you going to
00:21play next or any other cat games we've missed that we should have included? Let us know in
00:25the comments below. Okay, it's a decade-old 3DS game and cats will never forgive Nintendo
00:34for giving them second billing, but Nintendogs plus Cats is still one of the best cat games ever made.
00:40Its adorable recreation of kitty breeds gives you your choice of fuzzy pals to befriend,
00:45and if you play with 3D enabled it really does feel like you're staring through a little window
00:50into their home. Unfortunately, you can't teach the kittens tricks or take them out into town
00:54like you can with their puppy counterparts, but they will sneak off and bring you gifts
00:58every now and again to show you they care. None of the gifts are dead birds or mice,
01:02but it's okay to sacrifice realism every now and again.
01:09Hi, my name is Cookie. I am a cat.
01:12The true essence of being a cat is really about being a bit of a dick,
01:16and cat lateral damage channels that perfectly as you leap around procedurally generated environments
01:21in search of breakable stuff to knock over. Occasionally a special event will pop up where
01:26maybe you can chase and catch a mouse, but ultimately it's all about that sweet destructive
01:31satisfaction. Cat lateral damage is good fun to play as a standard flat screen experience,
01:36but it's even better when you can play it in VR with full motion control pause for an even more
01:41immersive asshole cat experience. A game about a girl who can control gravity might not seem like an
01:52obvious cat game, but the girl in question is called Cat with a K and she gets all of her
01:57pals
01:57from a mysterious space cat who looks like stars, which is definitely a level up on the cat coolness
02:03ladder. Space cat is called Dusty and is your constant companion in the game. You never control them
02:08directly, but they're always there, wandering around doing magic cat stuff whenever you stand idle for
02:14more than a few seconds. So what if Samus Aran was a cat, but still did pretty much all of
02:23the same
02:23stuff? Then you'd basically be playing Gata Roboto, a retro side-scroller that pairs its Metroid-inspired
02:29action with stylish lo-fi pixel art and music. A spaceship's cat called Kiki must continue a human's
02:36mission by curling up in a suit of armour and blasting through caverns full of hostile creatures,
02:41but she'll also need to pop out occasionally to take advantage of her feline agility and smaller size
02:46when that giant robo-armour gets in the way. Gata Roboto is a brief and minimalist Metroid-style
02:52experience that's perfect when you need a little bit more cat action in your life.
03:01Night in the Woods is a game about coming home, finding its change, not being sure how you feel
03:06about that. But most importantly, you play as a cat. May, the cat in question, is a deeply conflicted
03:12character who lives in a crumbling rust belt town and occasionally indulges in breaking stuff for
03:17the sake of breaking stuff as she tries to get on with her life, which is very cat.
03:22Okay, so everybody's some kind of anthropomorphic animal in this world and nobody ever makes a big
03:27deal about it. But the last thing Night in the Woods wants to do is lay out a deep lore
03:31backstory
03:32to explain the animal people thing. The important thing is May is one of the best video game cats
03:36around. What good is recreating a digital version of yourself and giving them the perfect home
03:48if your cat isn't there to throw up on the floor and ruin the sofa. The base version of The
03:53Sims 4
03:53doesn't include pets, but as the name suggests, the Sims 4 Cats and Dogs expansion is all over it.
03:59You start off by creating your third friend with a character creation suite with options and
04:04flexibilities to rival its Sims counterpart. Then you can add them to your family and feel your heart
04:09swell. You can't control your pets directly, which is especially realistic for cats, but there are a bunch
04:15of ways for your Sims to care for them and interact with them. You can even open up your own
04:19veterinary
04:20clinic as a business if a house full of animal pals isn't enough.
04:26The true endgame of Animal Crossing New Horizons is, obviously, assembling an island of nothing but cat
04:32villagers. Sure, there are plenty of other species of villagers to meet, and they're all perfectly good,
04:37but cats. Plus, is any coincidence that Raymond, the most sought-after villager in the entire New
04:44Horizon community, is himself a cat? I think not. Engineering the perfect setting for a bunch of
04:49ingrates who lounge around on all of the furniture like they own the place is also an incredibly
04:54realistic cat owner experience. Super Mario 3D World introduced Cat Mario, giving the most heroic
05:08plumber the ability to scratch, climb walls, and dive through the air with the grace of a cat, chasing
05:13after another cat. This was all included in Bowser's Fury, a new adventure added to the Switch release of
05:193D World. It all unfolds in a strange corner of Super Mario's world, where everything except Bowser is
05:25some kind of cat. The Goombas, the shines, the trees, the architecture, everything. Never before
05:31has the Mario franchise been this deeply invested in all things feline, and perhaps it never will be again.
05:49And finally, the game that brought us all together to start with. How could we not put this as our
05:54number one cat game? Not only does Stray let you push things off ledges, walk through paint, and leave
05:59little paw print trails, and scratch trees until your claws are content, but there's a beautiful story
06:03underneath its furry coat. This game will make you laugh, cry, and purr, literally if you're playing
06:09on the PS5 DualSense, as the controller will purr along with you. Placing Stray as our number one cat
06:14game just makes sense, and we hope you get a chance to step into the furry feet of its protagonist
06:19soon.
06:19It's worth it. Trust us. So, what's your favorite cat game on this list, or is there another one that
06:25you
06:25prefer that we didn't mention? Let us know in the comments below.
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