Best Cat Games for PC

Why it's here: Still the one every other cat game gets measured against. Stray puts you in the body of a stray in a sealed city of robots, and its real achievement is behaviour: you knock bottles off ledges, scratch at doors and curl up to sleep because the cat would, not because a quest says so. The story runs about seven hours and the ending earns them. Steam reviewers name the chase sequences as the rough stretch, with difficulty spikes that break the mood. It holds 97% across more than 179,000 Steam reviews, and it is where I would start.

Why it's here: The deepest game here, and the least gentle. Mewgenics is a turn-based roguelite from the makers of The Binding of Isaac: you breed cats, send them out on tactical runs, then carry the survivors' genetics into the next generation. The humour is dark and the systems are enormous. Steam reviewers who bounce off it name long runs, interface problems and uneven balance, so this is not the pick for a quiet evening. Released in February 2026, it sits at 90% across nearly 55,000 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The pick for anyone who wants Stray's cat without Stray's dread. Little Kitty, Big City drops a house cat into a bright open city and lets the trip home wait: there are hats to collect, corners to explore and a cast of chatty animals handing out errands. Nothing here can hurt you. Players in Steam reviews flag how short it is, two to four hours, plus a camera that gets clumsy now and then. It carries 97% across almost 14,000 Steam reviews and suits a child as well as an adult.

Why it's here: The one to play with someone else on the sofa. Cat Quest III is a compact open-world action RPG about a pirate cat sailing the Purribean, with dodge-and-combo fights, a ship of your own and a pun in every line of dialogue. A second player can join locally as a partner cat. The caveat in Steam reviews is that it is short and rarely difficult, which is a flaw for veterans and the selling point for a mixed-skill pair. It holds 95% across 4,300 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The longest proper adventure on this list. Crypt Custodian casts you as Pluto, a cat who has just died and been sentenced to clean the afterlife forever, and builds a top-down metroidvania around the broom: new abilities open new corners of the map, and the doomed ghosts you befriend give the story more weight than the premise suggests. Steam reviewers single out a few stretches of the map as empty and the in-game hints as unhelpful. One developer made it, and it sits at 97% across 3,200 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The pick if you want to live as a cat for a season rather than an evening. Cattails: Wildwood Story is a life sim RPG: you lead a colony into a forest, track prey by scent and pounce on it, grow the town to recruit new residents, fall in love with one of them and raise kittens. Players in Steam reviews say it turns repetitive once the main goals are done, and that losing your inventory on death stings. It holds 97% across nearly 2,000 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: A whole metroidvania you can finish in one sitting. Gato Roboto sends a cat through an alien underworld to rescue a stranded captain: inside the armoured mech you have the firepower, and outside it you are small and exposed, slipping through tunnels and waterways the suit cannot fit. That swap is the game. Steam reviewers flag slippery controls and a couple of bosses far harder than everything around them. It costs under eight dollars and holds 94% across 5,300 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The cheapest game here and the best reviewed. A Building Full of Cats is a hidden-object game with one instruction: find and pet every cat in a five-floor building, more than 300 of them, around fifty properly hidden. Nothing rushes you. The only complaint with any volume in Steam reviews is that it is over quickly, and reviewers go out of their way to praise its support for cat adoption and rescue groups. Three dollars, and 99% across 4,500 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The logic puzzle of the group. Cats Organized Neatly gives you a grid and a pile of cats curled into awkward shapes, and asks you to fit every one of them in: 80 hand-made levels, 32 hand-drawn cats, and nothing to learn beyond click and place. Steam reviewers note that the harder boards lean on trial and error and that some cat shapes are hard to read at a glance. It costs three dollars and holds 97% across 4,900 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: An odd, durable favourite from 2015. Cat Goes Fishing starts you on an island with a basic rod and builds one long climb from there: quests for cash, better rods, upgrades, boats for deeper water, a radar, and a catalogue of fish that each behave differently enough to need a plan. There is no story and no ending to judge. Players in Steam reviews say it grows repetitive over long sessions and has a few windowing bugs. It still holds 94% across more than 16,600 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The story pick, and the one game on this list that sets out to upset you. Copycat follows Dawn, a shelter cat convinced she is a wild animal, with a nature-documentary narrator describing her living-room life as a jungle hunt. That joke carries a harder story about an owner in failing health and a lookalike stray. It runs about four hours. Steam reviewers are split on the rest: bland, repetitive play between scenes and an ending some found unsatisfying, which matters in a game that is all story. It sits at 89% across 6,000 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The game for the part of cat ownership nobody else here covers: knocking things off shelves. Catlateral Damage: Remeowstered is a first-person house cat simulator where the objective is mess, toppling books and shattering vases across procedurally generated homes, with new cats and abilities to unlock. It is a toy more than a challenge. Steam reviewers say a run through it lasts only two or three hours and that the upgrade loop repeats. A small corpus but a happy one: 97% across 367 Steam reviews.

Why it's here: The management pick, with a real warning attached. Cat Cafe Manager hands you your grandmother's run-down cafe in a village called Caterwaul Way: renovate it, set a menu, hire staff and befriend the local strays until the place fills up. The loop is pleasant and the cast is warm. But Steam reviewers report crashes, staff who stand idle and an economy that turns repetitive, and those complaints are frequent enough to count. It holds 88% across 3,200 Steam reviews, the lowest score here.

Why it's here: The tabletop pick. Quilts and Cats of Calico adapts the board game Calico: you place patterned fabric scraps to sew a quilt, score for matching colours and patterns, and attract cats who each prefer particular designs. There is a campaign, solo play and matches for up to four, locally or online. Fans of the board game call it faithful. Steam reviewers flag bugs in multiplayer and a story mode that runs thin. It holds 93% across roughly 600 Steam reviews.