36 Best Cat Games: Feline Adventures for PC and Consoles

Cat games are far more than a cute face on the box art these days. Over the past few years, felines have grown into full-fledged protagonists: they prowl neon-soaked slums of the future, swing a sword against an army of dogs, pilot combat mechs, and crack grim cases in rain-slicked noir alleys. Some games let you literally become a cat — feeling every leap and every vase knocked off a shelf — while others keep a cat quietly beside the hero, carrying the whole soul of the story.

We've gathered cat games for every mood and taste: laid-back simulators of feline life, brisk platformers and metroidvanias, cozy "find all the kitties" puzzles, and darker adventures that hide a decidedly grown-up plot under all that fur. Everything is split into categories so you can quickly find your thing — whether you want to play as a cat, take care of one, or simply melt into a world of cats for an evening or two.

Short on time? Start with the golden ten: Stray, Nine Sols, Mewgenics, Cat Quest III, Little Kitty, Big City, Rain World, Night in the Woods, Gori: Cuddly Carnage, Crypt Custodian, and Gato Roboto. Then browse the sections below.

Story-driven games where you are the cat and see a whole tale through from beginning to end. You control the cat directly: you climb where no human could, squeeze through gaps, knock things over just because you can, and look up at a huge world from cat height. From intimate stories about the way home to brutal survival, this section is all about adventures where the cat is the hero — not its owner.

A ginger stray cat tumbles into a forgotten underground city where robots have long since replaced people and eternal neon hangs over the streets. From there begins one of the most charming adventures of recent years: you sneak through the slums of the future, help your drone companion B-12, solve light puzzles, and constantly stop to scratch a couch or curl up under a warm lamp. Stray's magic lives in the details — in how faithfully feline movement is captured, how the game rewards curiosity, and how a melancholy story about a dying world and the hope of reaching the light hides behind such simple mechanics. This is the cult hit that got many people into "cat games" in the first place, and the best entry point if you're just curious about the genre. It wraps up in an evening or two and leaves a long, warm afterglow.

In Little Kitty, Big City, a little black kitten slips off a windowsill, gets lost, and now has to find its way home across a whole city district. It sounds sad, but it's actually a sunny, good-natured adventure with no enemies and no rush: you dash across rooftops and alleys, steal whatever the locals leave lying around, tease birds, wear silly hats, and gather a crew of fellow city strays. Helping little critters, finding hidden nooks and lounging in the sun matter just as much as making progress — the game never pushes you and lets you explore at your own pace. It wins you over with mood rather than challenge: it's about the joy of small mischief and how great it is to be a cat who finds everything interesting and fears nothing. A perfect pick when you want something light and reliably kind.

Behind the harmless "play as a kitty" label hides one of the harshest survival games ever made. You're a slugcat, a tiny creature at the bottom of a vast hostile world: you have to hunt, hide from far larger predators, and reach shelter before the deadly rain washes everything living away. Nobody holds your paw or shows mercy here — the ecosystem lives on its own, and any outing can be your last. That's exactly why Rain World is loved: for its honest cruelty, hypnotic animation, and the feeling that you really are a small animal, not an all-powerful hero. It's not for everyone, but those who push through the first few hours usually stay for a long, long time.

A story about a cat named Dawn, taken from a shelter into a new home — only for a lookalike impostor to slyly take her place, leaving the real family favorite to prove that the home is hers. Copycat is less about gameplay and more about emotion: a calm, story-driven journey about attachment, loss, and what it means to belong to someone. There aren't many mechanics — you live through a chain of scenes from a cat's life, from the first days in a new house to a bitter parting — but the writing strikes right where it hurts anyone who has ever had a pet. By the finale it becomes an honest conversation about how animals bond with people and how hard coming home can be. Take it if you're after a story to live through to the credits rather than a challenge.

A house cat named Quon dies and finds herself in a grim afterlife, from which she must claw her way back to life across a string of trial-like afterlife stages. It's a fast, stylish 2D action-adventure: you fight, dash, build up a beastly instinct meter, and spend it on powerful moves while unlocking new abilities. Die on a stage and you lose your form and get knocked back, so the game keeps the tension high and asks you to play clean. The world is drawn with real love for dark fantasy, and the idea of a cat's nine lives is baked into both the story and the mechanics. A small but expressive project from the makers of the Momodora series — for those who want to fight as a cat rather than pet one.

A tiny kitten is left alone on cold streets and has to learn to survive: find food, hide from danger, and decide which of the people and animals it meets can be trusted. The pixel-art A Street Cat's Tale tugs at the heart honestly, without manipulation — the world around the little hero is harsh but not without kindness, and it's your choices that decide who it becomes. The game remembers whom you hurt and whom you helped, steering you toward one of several endings. A short, atmospheric, and surprisingly grown-up story about how fragile a stray's life is and how much of it hinges on the kindness of strangers.

A chubby whiskered fellow named Mr. Whiskers rolls across bright landscapes in search of a runaway friend, and you steer him by tilting the world left and right so he gains speed and hops over obstacles. Originally a mobile game, The Big Journey feels right at home on the big screen too: a relaxing tilt-and-roll platformer with lovely hand-drawn art, gentle difficulty, and a meditative rhythm set to soothing music. Levels are short, collecting cherries and secrets along the way is a pure delight, and failing is nearly impossible. A great "coffee break" pick for half an hour when you want something cute and completely stress-free.

A kitten named Lily visits her grandparents on a cozy island and fills up an old photo album: she explores the surroundings, photographs anything interesting, goes fishing, sorts through family memories, and simply enjoys the vacation. Petit Island breathes calm in the spirit of Animal Crossing — there's nowhere to rush and no one to fight, just warm little tasks, charming island residents, and pleasant hand-drawn animation. The camera in your paws turns a stroll into an unhurried hunt for beautiful shots, and each photo adds a page to your personal record of the holiday. A small, heartwarming adventure for evenings when the world around you is simply too loud.

Cats can do more than purr. In this section, whiskered heroes take up a sword, a revolver, or a lightsaber: they slash through the best metroidvania games, grind levels in role-playing worlds, and command furry squads in tactics. If you'd rather act than admire, this is your stop.

An anthropomorphic Taoist cat named Yi wakes after centuries and sets out on a path of revenge — and so begins arguably the finest metroidvania about cats. Nine Sols blends platforming, exploration, and tough parry-based combat in the vein of Sekiro: every boss is an exam of reflexes and patience, while the world around fuses Eastern mythology with rusty science fiction. Its hand-drawn "Taopunk" art stands out, as does a surprisingly strong story that steers into genuine drama by the end. A benchmark piece of work that became a fan favorite: hard just enough that beating each boss feels like a personal triumph. If you'll only take one "serious" cat game from the whole list, make it this one.

A project from the creators of The Binding of Isaac, in which you collect, breed, and raise a whole army of battle cats, then send them into turn-based fights against a parade of nightmarish creatures. Mewgenics is a wild mix of tactics, management, and roguelike with the authors' trademark black humor: every cat is unique, generated with its own quirks and abilities, and a pet's death here is just part of one big deranged machine. It's a game people waited years for, and it delivered: deep, replayable, and utterly unhinged in the best way. Just how much its signature madness saves it — and where the balance stumbles — we broke down in our Mewgenics review. It sucks you in until "just one more run" becomes "where did the night go."

In Cat Quest III, a pirate cat sails the salty seas, fires broadside cannons, and swings a blade in a brisk isometric RPG. The third installment is the most polished in the series: the same light combat and charming cat puns, but now with sea voyages, boarding fights, and your own upgradeable ship. The world is open from the first minutes, and battles revolve around dodges and well-chosen gear, from muskets to spells. It plays fast and light and suits even those who usually tire of RPGs — it's all about fun, not grind. If the pirate cat leaves you craving something meatier, dip into our roundup of the best RPGs of all time. A solid modern entry point you won't be embarrassed to start the series with.

The game that launched the whole series: a whiskered hero sets off to rescue his kidnapped sister and clears out the dungeons of a sprawling open world along the way. Cat Quest wins with simplicity and charm — snappy one-button combat, a sea of cat puns in location and quest names, and an endless urge to run "just one more dungeon." Leveling, gear, and spells are served up lightly and without tedium, so it lands equally well with hardened role-players and total newcomers. Compact, friendly, and infectiously cute — an ideal choice for a family evening or a relaxed nightly run.

Cat Quest II adds a partner to the formula: now a cat and a dog travel side by side — two kings from warring states forced to team up. You can freely swap between the heroes in single-player or play the whole thing in co-op, which turns an already breezy RPG into a great two-player romp. Each has their own set of spells and weapons, and fighting and solving puzzles together is noticeably more fun. All the same charm, a few more mechanics, and twice the reasons to smile — exactly what we enjoyed we wrote up in our best co-op games roundup. One of the coziest co-ops about animals.

The adorable kitten Gori hops on a flying combat hoverboard and turns hordes of mutated toys into mincemeat. The contrast of "fluffy cuteness versus acid-soaked violence" is the whole point: a bright, breakneck hack-and-slash with tricks, combos, and defiantly gory neon aesthetics. The hoverboard doubles as weapon and transport — you carve laps around the arenas, slice enemies on the move, and keep the spectacle at maximum. The skateboarding-meets-slaughter controls take some getting used to, but the action here is unhinged and stylish. For anyone who wants their kitty to smash everything in sight rather than purr.

A black-and-white metroidvania about a cat who pilots a combat mech stranded on a hostile planet. Gato Roboto is compact and remarkably well built: you either dart through tight tunnels as a nimble furry explorer where the armor can't fit, or saddle up the mech and blast enemies with cannons. Swapping between those two modes drives the whole rhythm — its puzzles are built around where you're a cat and where you're a machine. Nothing is wasted, the minimalist old-Game-Boy visuals are lovely, and the pacing is perfectly tuned with not a single dragging minute. A great way to sample the genre without drowning in dozens of hours.

A cat named Pluto dies and lands in the afterlife with a job as a janitor — and so Crypt Custodian, a bright adventure-metroidvania, begins. A surprisingly deep game hides under the cartoonish wrapper: engaging exploration, inventive bosses, and a generous map you'll want to sweep down to the last corner. Combat is built around a broom and gradually grows with moves and upgrades, while optional challenges give you reasons to revisit places you've already cleared. A crowd favorite that far too many people slept on: if you love Hollow Knight but want something warmer, kinder, and less oppressive, this is your pick for many pleasant hours.

A magical cat sets off in pursuit of an ancient-artifact thief across eight colorful worlds of a classic platformer. MagiCat is an homage to the 16-bit era: precise jumps, speed, magical abilities like a dash and fireballs, and mandatory boss fights at the end of each world. Levels are packed with secrets and demand not just reflexes but a bit of thinking, while unlockable powers noticeably change how you tackle familiar stages. Nothing revolutionary, but a sturdy, honest, and likeable romp for everyone who grew up on old-school platformers and misses that pace.

A two-legged catboy blasts through hordes of enemies in a frantic run-and-gun platformer inspired by the SNES era. Super Catboy is all shooting, sprinting, melee, and high-speed pixel action: you juggle weapons, ricochet off projectiles, and tear through dense, spectacular levels. Beyond the core boss-blasting there are chase sequences and sudden rule changes, so the game never lets you get bored. It's occasionally overloaded and hardcore, but it's driven and built with obvious love for the classics. For anyone raised on Contra and Gunstar Heroes who's long awaited something in the same spirit.

A dark-fantasy ARPG where you play as a warrior cat of the Ailur clan and explore grim lands in the souls-like tradition. Its bones are deliberate stamina-based combat, mastery of crystal battle magic, and the slow reveal of a hostile world. Kristala took a long road from early access to a full release and remains a niche, occasionally rough project — but the idea of "souls about cats" is too tempting to skip. Go in with level expectations: for atmosphere and an original concept rather than polish. By the way, we ran a detailed interview with Kristala's designer about this souls-like starring cats.

No plot and no ending here — just an endless feline routine. Unlike the adventures above, these are sandbox games: some let you roam the woods as a wild cat and start a family, while in others you're no longer the cat but the owner, caring for pets, running a cat café, or sitting by the water with a rod. This section is for anyone after a cat simulator and cozy calm instead of adrenaline; and if you want simulation on a bigger scale, our roundup of the best life simulators is right next door.

Cattails: Become a Cat!, an RPG simulator of wild feline life often called "Stardew Valley about cats." You hunt rodents and bugs, build up your den, join one of the warring colonies, make friends, form relationships and raise kittens, while the world shifts with the seasons. The day is genuinely structured: territory must be defended, colony reputation earned, and supplies stocked before winter. Behind the deceptively simple art hides a wealth of activities and real role-playing depth, so it's easy to sink dozens of hours into it. Cozy but not hollow — this cat's life has both a routine and a character.

A development of the original's idea: again a wild cat, again seasons and a colony, but with a new story, new characters, and reworked relationship mechanics. Wildwood Story leans into community — you build up a settlement, help neighbors, run their errands, and weave feline bonds, gradually turning a remote patch of forest into a living place. There's more coziness and less harshness than in the first part, with gathering and settlement-building taking center stage. A smooth, warm life-sim for long, quiet evenings, well worth recommending even to those who've already finished the original.

Every cat's dream and every owner's nightmare: your one and only task is to knock as many things as possible off shelves, tables, and nightstands. Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered, this remastered take on the cult mischief, adds polish, new modes, collectible kitties, and pesky objects, but the essence is unchanged — pure, unburdened destruction bliss from a first-cat perspective. Levels are procedurally generated so every rampage plays out differently, and photo hunts and hidden-goodie searches give you reasons to return. Perfect for clearing your head after a hard day and feeling like a tiny furry agent of chaos.

A cat sits on the shore with a rod, and you reel in ever bigger and stranger fish to upgrade your tackle and reach genuine sea monsters. Cat Goes Fishing is a deceptively addictive fishing sim: it starts as meditation and turns into an eager hunt with clever line physics, dozens of catch types, and tricky deep-water beasts you have to seriously prepare for. Each new rod and lure opens access to creatures further down, and before you know it you're strategizing around some elusive giant. A great time-killer that easily "accidentally" swallows a couple of hours an evening.

You inherit an abandoned cat café and have to bring it back to life: furnish the rooms, fill them with cute critters, and — most importantly — pet everyone in sight and ride around on giant cats. Calico wins not with depth but with concentrated coziness and a pointedly adorable aesthetic: you bake treats, dress up your heroine, collect wildlife from the area, and turn the café into a warm place you want to return to. There's no stress and no failure — just unhurried decorating and cuddles. A game-hug for anyone who's had a rough day and just wants to sink into a soft, fluffy fairy tale.

The more business-minded side of the same dream is Cat Cafe Manager: here you seriously restore a cat café in a seaside town — hiring and training staff, planning the floor, serving guests, and taming dozens of cats, each with its own personality and habits. Behind the cute wrapper lurks a genuinely toothy management sim with economy, furniture layouts, and the revival of the sleepy town around your place. Happy visitors bring money, money funds expansion, and expansion draws in new whiskered residents — the loop hooks you for a long time. For those who love not just petting kitties but also putting spreadsheets and schedules in order.

The coziest corner of the list — games where cats serve as a pure source of joy. You have to find all the hidden fluffballs, neatly pack them into a box, or solve a gentle puzzle. Nothing scary, no rush: the ideal format for exhaling.

In A Building Full of Cats, a whole building is stuffed with hidden kitties, and your task is to find every one by clicking around cozy hand-drawn floors, peeking behind furniture and unfolding little interior secrets. This simple, charming hidden-object game works as pure stress relief: spot a fluffball, get a drop of dopamine, and repeat dozens of times over. Some cats hide cleverly and need you to move or touch something, so there's more than just mindless screen-scanning here. It reels you in softly and kindly, and you can finish it in one relaxed sitting. A crowd favorite among fans of "find them all" games.

An absurd puzzle-platformer built around an old joke: if a cat always lands on its feet and buttered bread always lands butter-side down, what happens if you strap them together? You juggle that paradox, gluing and separating the cat and the bread to solve tricky physics puzzles and reach the exit. The levels keep tossing in new rules, and the charming black-and-white art and soft humor never let it get stale. CATO wins with unexpected inventiveness: nearly every room is a small "now how do I pull this off?" A terrific puzzler for anyone who loves a game that makes you smile and scratch your head at once.

Cats Hidden in Paris is a hand-drawn Paris with a hundred cats hidden in it — find them all. The whole game is exactly that, and that's what makes it such pure pleasure: lovely art, quiet background music, and the meditative search for whiskered silhouettes among the streets, storefronts, and tiled rooftops. Some cats sit in plain sight, while others must be spotted by the tip of a tail or a squinting eye, so attentiveness is rewarded. Zero stress, zero failure — just you, a magnifying glass, and a hundred contented kitties. A warm little find for one calm evening.

An adorable puzzler where cat-shaped pieces must be packed into a grid without a single gap — a sort of feline Tetris jigsaw, only without any rush or timer. Behind that deceptively simple idea lurks a pleasantly rising difficulty: the further you go, the more whimsical the fluffy pieces' shapes and the trickier they are to rotate and combine. Each level is a small logic puzzle with a single correct solution you'll want to click into place. A calm, cute, and pleasantly absorbing game for lovers of brain-teasers and, of course, cats.

You take apart tiny 3D dioramas — little room-boxes — spinning them from every angle and finding hidden kitties while solving mechanical puzzles along the way. Cats in Time blends the coziness of a hidden-object game with a pleasant three-dimensional puzzle: to reach the next fluffball you'll open a drawer, turn a gear, or assemble a clever mechanism. Each level is a small, inventive toy you'll want to disassemble down to the last detail, and the cats you find pile up in a cute collection. It relaxes and engages at once, without sliding into either boredom or teeth-grinding difficulty.

A cozy life-sim set in the Hello Kitty universe: you settle a tropical island alongside Kitty and her friends, run kind errands, decorate your home, catch wildlife, cook, and build friendships with the locals. Behind the familiar brand hides a surprisingly generous, thoughtful cozy game brimming with content: exploration, collecting, outfits, seasonal events, and dozens of characters with their own stories. The island keeps opening up new corners, so there's plenty to keep coming back for. A warm pick for the whole family and for anyone missing a carefree island in the spirit of Animal Crossing.

The final section is for story lovers. Here cats either unravel crimes in rain-soaked noir cities or stay beside the hero and carry all the drama. Less running around, more atmosphere and character — and genre fans will also appreciate our full roundup of the best noir games.

In Night in the Woods, Mae Borowski, a cat, drops out of college and returns to her dying mining hometown as it fades along with her friends and dreams. It's technically an adventure with light platforming, but at heart it's a deep, at times aching story about growing up, anxiety, and trying to find your place when the world around you is falling apart. Dialogue is the main weapon here: alive, funny, and painfully precise. A cult game remembered not for its gameplay but for how sharply it lands on the feelings of an entire generation. Mae's fluffy face is deceiving — what's inside is anything but a kids' story.

Cat detective Waffles investigates a tangled case in a city populated by cats and dogs — a classic point-and-click in retro style. You gather clues, question witnesses, combine items, and unravel the knot in the best traditions of old adventure games, where attentiveness and logic lead to the answer rather than reflexes. The case grows with suspects and unexpected twists, while a light sense of humor keeps the noir from overdoing it. Charming pixel art and a solid detective plot make this a cozy evening quest for anyone who misses the classic adventures.

A noir detective starring cat sleuth Cuddles Nutterbutter: a grim city of feline mobsters, cynical jokes, and a case to crack through dialogue and puzzles. Nine Noir Lives stands entirely on humor and good voice acting — it's a comedy quest that doesn't take its own noir seriously and is all the better for it. The genre's classic mechanics — examining scenes, gathering clues, combining items — are served briskly and with constant jokes, so getting stuck for long or bored is hard. Pick it up when you're in the mood to laugh your way through a crime alongside a whiskered cynic.

A detective adaptation of the cult European comic: cat sleuth John Blacksad runs a grim investigation in 1950s America, where corruption lurks around every corner and the characters are anthropomorphic animals. The game leans first and foremost on style and noir atmosphere: jazz, cigarette smoke, interrogations, and heavy moral choices that shape the case. As an adventure it stumbles technically in places and won't click with everyone, but fans of the source material and lovers of grown-up detective stories should give it a shot for Blacksad himself and his shadowy world.

A psychedelic cat makes its way through hundreds of deadly mazes where a single wrong touch means death. PUSS! is a sharp, acidic action-puzzler of reflexes and patience wrapped in eye-searing meme aesthetics with constant jabs at the player. Levels are short but vicious: each is a separate precision puzzle where you must guide the cat between lethal hazards along one exact route. Hardcore, weird, and absolutely not for everyone — but if you like a game that mocks you with a grin and makes you retry until you win, you'll get your fill.

The undisputed crowd favorite is Stray, an adventure playing as a stray cat in a city of robots. It's where most people start with cat games, and it's also the best entry point into the genre.

Yes, plenty: Stray, Little Kitty Big City, Rain World, Gori: Cuddly Carnage, Crypt Custodian, Cat Quest — in all of these cat games you control the whiskered hero itself, not its owner.

Most pixel and indie projects on the list are undemanding: Cat Quest, Gato Roboto, MagiCat, A Street Cat's Tale, Cats Organized Neatly, and nearly all the "find the cat" games like Cats Hidden in Paris run fine even on modest laptops.

Yes — Cat Quest II can be played by two: one takes the cat, the other the dog. It's one of the few cat games with full same-screen co-op.

Among the notable recent releases, look at Mewgenics, Cat Quest III, Nine Sols, Little Kitty Big City, and Crypt Custodian — all of them have become hits.

That's Stray — the game about a ginger cat making its way through a cyberpunk city populated solely by machines.

So which video-game cat is your all-time favorite? Maybe we missed someone — name the whiskered hero the list is lacking and we'll add them.

If your cat supply is spent for the day but the urge to be an animal remains, there are games with equally charming non-human heroes right nearby. One causes mayhem with avian cheek, another leads a litter through a hostile world, and a third quietly ferries souls — but they're all about what we love in cat games: seeing the world through the eyes of a creature that's decidedly not human. The three projects below are worth your time once the felines have run out.

You're a nasty goose with a to-do list of pranks to inflict on a sleepy English village. Stealing keys, honking in ears, and petty hooliganism are elevated to an art form here. The same joy of "being an animal and doing whatever you want" as in cat games, just with avian cheek instead of feline grace.

A harsh story about a mother fox leading her cubs through a world poisoned by humans. It pulls the same strings as Stray and Rain World — the helplessness of a small animal before a vast, hostile world — but does it even harder and sadder.

A cozy game about being a ferrymaster for spirits: you build a boat, care for your animal charges, and see them off on their final journey. Warm, beautiful, and sad — the perfect step from feline coziness to something bigger.