Best Cats Games on Steam
Games featuring cats as characters, companions, mysteries, or central themes.
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1Stray - Lost, alone and separated from family, a stray cat must untangle an ancient mystery to escape a long-forgotten cybercity and find their way home.
Jul 19, 2022
In this game, you can…
- hide inside a cardboard box to slip through restricted areas and sneak past patrols.
- team up with a little flying drone that translates robot speech, unlocks doors, carries your items, and helps you recover lost memories.
- meow on command, purr, scratch things up, and shove bottles off shelves just because you can.
- fall through a broken pipe into an underground robot city, get separated from your cat family, and climb your way back toward the surface.
- squeeze through gaps, crawl along pipes, and hop rooftops to reach places built for humans but perfect for a cat.
- distract a shopkeeper with a blaring mixtape, sneak in disguised as a box, and piece together a path forward by poking at anything that looks interesting.
- dash through a swarming chase where creatures drop from above and you have to zigzag through alleys without getting caught.
- walk across keyboards to type nonsense, mess with board games, and nuzzle robot legs until they react.
2BattleBlock Theater® - Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
May 15, 2014
In this game, you can…
- get kidnapped by giant cats and forced to run deadly theater obstacle courses for their amusement.
- slap and shove your co-op buddy, including launching them into hazards as part of the level plan.
- compete in multiplayer modes like Capture the Horse, Basketball, Whale Chasing, and Grab the Gold instead of standard combat.
- escape a level by grabbing just three gems, then come back for every gem and a hidden yarn ball to chase an A++ rank.
- play co-op levels where you hoist a friend up, throw them to high ledges, and blast them forward to reach impossible routes.
- use weapons like top-hat cannons, exploding marching frog dancers, acid bubbles, and grenades to kill or launch friends.
- build your own stages and share them through the level editor and Steam Workshop for others to play.
3Mewgenics - Build the ultimate cat army through tactical breeding and send them into deep, challenging turn-based adventures. Draft abilities, collect items, and manipulate genetics across generations in this roguelike tactics game from the creators of The Binding of Isaac and The End is Nigh.
Feb 10, 2026
In this game, you can…
- eat a fetus in an alley to instantly heal your entire party.
- loop a cat's concussions into power by repeatedly killing and resurrecting it, until it becomes an absurdly armored, brainless wall that crosses the whole board.
- resurrect enemies as zombies that join your party, as long as they die first.
- watch a so-called healer trait make your tank eat every corpse, including teammates, until it's alone and dies from exhaustion.
- breed cats until one ends up casting fireball for -2 mana, then keep it anyway despite permanent osteoporosis.
- stack a bug-host trait with bug gear and duplicate bug affixes until one cat becomes a walking infestation that can nearly solo a run.
- pair "spawn 1HP flies when hit" with "allies taking damage deal 10 back" and turn getting punched into a chain-reaction kill engine.
- kill a bird and randomly get a bazooka as loot.
4Nine Sols - Nine Sols is a lore rich, hand-drawn 2D action-platformer featuring Sekiro-inspired deflection focused combat. Embark on a journey of eastern fantasy, explore the land once home to an ancient alien race, and follow a vengeful hero’s quest to slay the 9 Sols, formidable rulers of this forsaken realm.
May 28, 2024
In this game, you can…
- interrupt a machine ritual that's about to voluntarily sever a kid's head.
- stick a paper seal onto an enemy, then cash in the energy you banked to detonate them.
- think you've beaten a boss, get the win moment, then watch it stand back up for phase 2 or phase 3.
- deflect at the last instant, build energy from it, then turn that defense into a counter chain.
- parry enemy strikes, parry projectiles, and even learn special parries for attacks that look like they shouldn't be stoppable.
- get wrecked by a boss for hours, then come back later and suddenly perfect-parry the same fight like it's scripted.
- slow time mid-fight to line up a bow shot right after a parry exchange, then snap straight back into the rhythm.
- find gifts and little activities for a kid you're protecting, like teaching him to draw or getting him to play the flute.
5Night in the Woods - NIGHT IN THE WOODS is an adventure game focused on exploration, story, and character, featuring dozens of characters to meet and lots to do across a lush, vibrant world.
Feb 21, 2017
In this game, you can…
- shoplift by playing red-light/green-light with the clerk, then watch your friend toss lightbulbs up so you can smash them with a baseball bat.
- open a secret dungeon-crawler on your laptop and get sucked into pushing deeper through its levels inside the main game.
- do tiny side activities like feeding a family of rats stolen pretzels, stargazing on a neighbor's roof, and scrap-hunting through flooded subway tunnels.
- hop across telephone poles, climb into windows, and wander a rusted small town until you stumble into wind-howling places behind the church.
- build a daily routine of roaming the neighborhood, checking in with townsfolk, then choosing a main event like a party, dinner, petty crime, or band practice.
- choose whether to hang out with Gregg or Bea, and have that choice turn into a whole dedicated scene instead of just more dialogue.
- grind through band practice rhythm parts again and again until you can finally nail them.
6A Little to the Left - A Little to the Left is a cozy puzzle game that has you sort, stack, and organize household items into pleasing arrangements while you keep an eye out for a mischievous cat with an inclination for chaos. Check out this playful and intuitive puzzler with 100+ satisfying messes to tidy.
Nov 8, 2022
In this game, you can…
- solve a level where the whole goal is petting the cat, but it changes mood depending on where you touch it.
- get asked to deliberately make a neat setup wrong on purpose, even when your instincts scream to fix it.
- hit a finale that suddenly switches into time-based cat-petting and a Tetris-like stacking challenge.
- straighten a crooked picture frame as the very first puzzle.
- stack books, papers, and kitchen tools into a visibly perfect order.
- discover the puzzle's hidden rule when neat-looking sorting isn't what it wants.
- have a cat barge in and knock items out of your carefully arranged setup.
- finish a puzzle in multiple valid ways, like sorting by color, size, shape, pattern, or category.
- spot tiny visual clues—like shadows or the lines in a mug design—to figure out the one pattern that makes everything click.
7Travellin Cats in Paris - Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Jul 16, 2023
In this game, you can…
- turn each cat you click blue, hear it meow, and unlock an achievement for every single one.
- hunt down 100 hidden cats in one big hand-drawn black-and-white Paris scene.
- finish the cat hunt, then unlock a timed mode where you try to clear the whole scene in under three minutes.
- find five seagulls hidden in the scene to unlock a "Not A Cat" achievement.
- click bikes to ring their bells, trigger voices behind doors, and make the scene play little sounds like ship horns and car engines.
- check every cat's individual name, then track which specific named cats you're still missing as you keep searching.
- use a hint that briefly points to the area of a missing cat, disappears fast, and can be tapped again immediately.
- find the final cat, then watch fireworks go off as the full scene completion reward.
8Cat Goes Fishing - Start out on an island with a basic rod. Progress into a radar-wielding master fisher-cat scouring the sea for the biggest and baddest fish. Each fish has unique behaviors that you will learn to exploit as you tailor your arsenal of fishing rods to suit your style of play. Mrrrow!
Jan 19, 2015
In this game, you can…
- get your bait stolen by a dragon, then have to improvise a whole new plan to catch what you came for.
- strap on rockets and drop bombs to cast farther and clear out fish that keep getting in your way.
- hunt down hats in the sea that give real boosts, change your abilities, and can even alter the music.
- start with a basic rod and unlock boats, better gear, sonar, and game-changing hats.
- use smaller fish as bait, kite predators into position, and thread your hook through cave mazes to land specific targets.
- pull off puzzle-like catches where a fish chases you through caves, you snag the exact bait it wants, then hook it mid-pursuit.
- switch between relaxed fishing and a Realism mode where fish fight hard, slip bait, and demand careful reeling.
- dive farther into deeper, darker zones as your boat and gear improve, unlocking new monsters and secrets as the ocean opens up.
9Strange Horticulture - Strange Horticulture is an occult puzzle game in which you play as the proprietor of a local plant store. Find and identify new plants, pet your cat, speak to a coven, or join a cult. Use your collection of powerful plants to influence the story and unravel Undermere’s dark mysteries.
Jan 21, 2022
In this game, you can…
- choose to help, hinder, or straight-up poison recurring characters, and have those deliveries alter the story.
- kill a guy with plants, awaken an ancient horror, and later feed a police officer to a plant when he tries to arrest you.
- decipher cryptic letters and context, then click specific squares on a grid map to uncover hidden locations and new plants.
- pet the shop's black cat before you open for the day.
- deduce a plant's identity from partial clues, then hunt your shelves until the description finally clicks.
- take eerie customer requests like "night vision" or haunted dreams and translate them into the exact plant or elixir.
- run your shop like a living puzzle box by hand-labeling plants, rearranging shelves, and turning drawers into a personal clue system.
- start with simple shopkeeping, then spiral into an occult murder mystery with witches, psychics, cults, and a monster to hunt.
10Little Kitty, Big City - You're a curious little kitty with a big personality, on an adventure to find your way back home. Explore the city, make new friends with stray animals, wear delightful hats, and leave more than a little chaos in your wake. After all, isn't that what cats do best?
May 9, 2024
In this game, you can…
- hoard 185 people's phones into one corner until the pile is so big it lags the game.
- meet a raccoon scientist who makes portals so you can fast travel around the city.
- trip people so they drop cans, recycle them, then keep the loop going by raiding trash and working vending machines.
- fall out an apartment window, hit the street, and turn the whole game into a climb back home across the city.
- drop someone's phone into a toilet, steal food straight out of their hands, and sprint off with it.
- climb vines, rooftops, ledges, and apartment-block shortcuts as your stamina grows, slowly unlocking routes to places you could only see from far away.
- capture birds, then release them again with no harm done.
- swipe and smash flower pots, knock every piece off a chessboard, and leave a trail of tiny disasters through public spaces.
