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Cats and the Other Lives
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Games like Cats and the Other Lives

A contemplative interactive-fiction adventure in which a house cat observes and gradually influences a broken family's reunion.

Closer the Distance
A single-player slice-of-life simulation about a family coping with tragedy, featuring secret-uncovering and relationship-repairing choices in a roughly 8-hour story.
2024-08-01
- Adventure
- Bird view / Isometric

Indie

Simulator

Role-playing (RPG)

Point-and-click

Drama

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A Street Cat's Tale

A bittersweet adventure-sim about a stray cat's survival in an unfamiliar town, with a compact story lasting 5–7 hours.

2019-09-05

Adventure
Survival
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Drama

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Nine Noir Lives

A single-player, roughly 10-hour comedy-noir point-and-click mystery where a cat licks objects and solves challenging puzzles in a town full of quirky characters.

2022-09-07

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Point-and-click
Kids

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Curiosity: A Cat Climbing Game

A single-player climbing platformer about a cat using bed checkpoints to overcome challenging falls and find its way home; reviewer sessions averaged around seven hours.

2025-10-08

Action
Platform
Adventure
Third person
Indie

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Hello Goodboy

A cozy, dialogue-heavy afterlife adventure about a lost soul and his dog helping other souls and uncovering a forgotten past, with an emotional story that may bring tears but can feel slow.

2023-05-25

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Visual Novel

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Copycat

A compact single-player adventure that follows a shelter cat's emotional struggle against a rival, exploring rejection, belonging, and the meaning of home in about four hours.

2024-09-19

First person
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Simulator

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Dot's Home

A gentle, choice-driven 2D narrative about a Detroit woman time-traveling through her family's history, with a roughly 8.5-hour story.

2021-10-22

Adventure
Indie
Side view
Historical
Point-and-click
Drama

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Night in the Woods

A ~15-hour, character-driven adventure game starring an anthropomorphic cat, blending exploration and puzzle-platforming in a vibrant world with a branching, emotionally resonant story.

2017-02-21

Platform
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Side view
Drama

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Cattails: Wildwood Story

A cozy life-sim RPG about leading a cat colony through hunting, gathering, town-building, and raising kittens.

2023-10-20

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Stray

A story-driven puzzle platformer about a lost cat exploring a melancholy robot-filled cybercity and unraveling an ancient mystery to get home.

2022-07-19

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Third person
Indie
Mystery

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Endling - Extinction is Forever

A bleak, atmospheric single-player adventure about a mother fox guiding her cubs through a dying, dystopian world in a compact five-hour experience.

2022-07-19

Adventure
Survival
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Stealth
Open world
Sandbox
Drama

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Bad Cat

A comedic stealth-and-puzzle adventure as a mischievous cat, lasting about 11 hours.

2022-03-02

Adventure
Indie