Choice of the Cat Demo

When it comes to high standards of living, most people think of kings, rock stars or various other wealthy people who have enough cash to keep themselves comfortable for decades on end. However, you can also look at cats and understand that they usually get the royal treatment without working, inheriting massive fortunes or being talented at anything, which is most definitely a dream life.

Choice of the Cat is a text-based adventure game in which you play the role of a cat for a change, and you are free to choose how the story evolves right from the start. Hence, you are pretty much free to loaf around and just do inoffensive cat things for a few hours, or actually try to take over the world and become a supervillain for some reason. Thus it’s definitely something new in the video game industry.

To begin with, there are a few things you can customize about your cat right from the beginning, such as its gender and a few cosmetic options. Some of these affect the story later on, as does every decision you make along the way, which is why it’s so fun and rewarding to go through the game multiple times. Granted, it can still become repetitive after a while, but then again cats are rarely boring.

As mentioned before, the choice is up to you when it comes to how the story progresses. The family that takes care of you is actually a couple in the middle of a divorce, so you can obviously take an active interest in that and maybe change their mind, but on the other hand, world domination may seem like an easier task. Becoming a hero is possible as well, not to mention the fact that you can even play pranks on humans.

In case you are not aware of it, text-based adventure games do not feature any graphics, because everything is written down in text form instead. Thus, you must use your imagination order to form a mental picture of the events, which might be even better, at least if you are an avid reader. You are also free to put whatever soundtrack you desire in the background, which usually helps with the atmosphere.

Choice of the Cat might sound like a cute little game, but there’s actually a fair bit of content in there, and you can play the game multiple times with different results. Thus, it’s at least worth a shot from every cat lover and text-based adventure fan out there.