![]() It’s easy to play and enjoy while multitasking other media. Cattails is a very chill, slow paced game meant for cat and animal lovers. That’s right, you can have kittens, up to four! After maxing friendship with a marriageable cat, you can court them, marry them and have kittens that are a blend of the parent’s colors, each with unique personalities. You can expand and customize your den with a handful of obtainable items as well, with the options to add storage, a small growing area for herbs, and a nursery. There are various outfits, accessories, and even pet bugs you can deck out your cat with with. Perhaps the occasional stray dog, passing fox, a hawk or owl going after your prey, etc. I found myself wishing there were more enemies to fight rather than just the other clans. There are a few combat abilities you can equip and your Fighting passive skill makes you hit harder and faster. You claw at each other until one goes down first. This is the most interesting part of the game and it is a shame that there is little left to do after decorating and populating your colony. ![]() When finished, you gain the ability to create, lead, and customize your own colony. When completed a challenge is unlocked somewhere on the map to complete, one puzzle associated with each quest. These quests are similar to the community center bundles. Seeing all the colonies together at the festivals is heartwarming! The only real direction you are given, aside from the daily colony noticeboard task, is to restore the Forest Guardian via completing quests found within the temple at the center of the map. Each season is 10 days, with a festival on the last day of each season that features a cute mini game and seasonal cosmetics to purchase. Interaction with other cats in the world is more limited than the Stardew Valley villagers with notable amounts of repeated dialogue. Instead of one town like in Stardew, there are three rival cat colonies, and you will eventually be able to found your own as the fourth. Different prey is found in different areas based on the seasons. You have to spot prey and sneak up, but not too close, hitting the pounce button at just the right time without scaring off your prey. Stardew Valley Parallels - Hunting and foraging takes the place of farming as your main form of sustenance and currency-earning. You can increase friendship/affinity with cats in your colony and in other colonies with gift giving to unlock new dialogue and interactions, though it is nothing nearly as complex as the friendship/romance cutscenes in Stardew. You can tell which colony cats may have been designed by Kickstarter backers from their unique dialogue and appearances, some sporting unnatural colors. There are a broad variety of cat pelt colors to choose, available from different vendors and festivals. If you are someone who ever binge read the Warriors young adults novels by Erin Hunter in your teens, this game is for you! (It's also for any cat or animal lovers in general.) Cattails’ map sprites for both prey and cats are super cute, and so are the cat’s individual close up portraits! The map overall could use an extra detail and shading pass, as it appears a bit flat in places. Though a bit rough around the edges with room to grow, I found the game entirely enjoyable and addictive. Cattails is a charming exploration game full of cute pixel cats and winsome personality! Many describe it as “Stardew Valley but with cats” Cattails is a charming exploration game full of cute pixel cats and winsome personality! Many describe it as “Stardew Valley but with cats” and I would agree to a certain extent- mainly in the environmental design, the sacred temple (similar to the community center), and the wake-sleep daily gameplay loop.
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