Spinster: A Cat Lady Game Demo

Cats require no more marketing on the Internet, because you would think they are its official sponsors by now. Videos, pictures and all sorts of drawings are used to perpetuate the phenomenon, and it’s already too late to stop it now. However, the animals were always popular pets, which is why the cat lady stereotype has existed for much longer than the Internet.

Spinster: A Cat Lady Game is a reflex-based game in which you play the role of a woman on a mission: collect as many cats as possible. This is basically a Snake clone when you get right down to the gameplay mechanics, but that doesn’t mean the experience isn’t fun. In fact, if you do not mind the rather cumbersome interface, you can get a lot of entertainment out of the game.

To begin with, there’s not much of a story to explain the events, but there’s no need for one anyway. You play a generic cat lady with no other purpose in life than to collect as many kittens as possible, while dealing with all sorts of obstacles along the way. In short, the lady keeps running forward at all times, and it is your job to control her direction and avoid the objects standing in your way.

Humor is an important element in the game, especially when it comes to dealing with failure. In case you happen to stumble upon an obstacle, the character stumbles and falls. Instead of resetting from the beginning, on the other hand, you just slowly lose the ability to walk unaided. Starting from a cane, all the way to a wheelchair, each fall takes its toll on your feet. Thankfully, this has no effect on your speed around the levels.

In the graphics department, the game is about as colorful and bright as you would expect. There is not much detail to admire, but the cats are quite fluffy and cute in spite of that. The animations are pretty fluid as well, while the physics engine controlling various objects seems to be potent enough to simulate realistic interactions between the environment and the player.

Although Spinster: A Cat Lady Game fails to be original when it comes to concept and gameplay, the cats are just cute to ignore. Hence, if you want something both funny and challenging at the same time, this might just be the answer.