Cat Quest (Series)

[Dragon Lord]

Developer: The Gentlebros
Publisher: PQube 
Platforms: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, PC
Trailers: Cat Quest | Cat Quest II | Cat Quest III


The Cat Quest series consists of three action RPGs: Cat Quest (released in 2017 for PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC and Android/iOS), Cat Quest II (released in 2019 for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC and Android/iOS) and Cat Quest III (released in 2024 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, XSX, Nintendo Switch, PC and Android/iOS). The games follow a cat adventurer in a magical fantasy land of cats and dogs. With each entry in the series comes enhancements to the combat and game play, with Cat Quest III introducing sailing the open seas. The games are action oriented with a top-down view. They feature fairly large world maps with lots of caves and dungeons to explore and find loot to upgrade your weapons and armor. While the games remain on the relatively easy side, offering up a comfortable gaming experience, the post-game "Mew Game Plus" does offer up the ability to put multiple restrictions on the player for a more challenging second play through. Modifiers include things such as Level 1, No Changing Equipment, 1 Life, Enhanced Enemies and more.

Each game is pretty short, allowing for a fun casual experience while not being a major time sink. I was able to complete the 100% for Cat Quest in 14 hours, while Cat Quest II only took me 10 hours to 100%. This is with the Steam version of Cat Quest being harder to 100% than the console versions, because it requires playing through the game an additional three times with Mew Game Plus modifiers on to get the equipment reward from them (you need to play once with one modifier, a second time with two modifiers and then finally a third time with three modifiers active at one time). Which I guess you could say makes the Steam version of the first Cat Quest game the hardest to complete if you want all achievements.

If you like fun games that offer a cute aesthetic, lots of cats and of course we can't forget about the endless stream of furry cat puns the game throws at you, then you will find the Cat Quest games to be a grand time. They can often be found in Steam sales for around $5-$10, which, in my opinion, is well worth the price for what you get out of the games.

As a side note, unfortunately for people who like to collect physical copies like me, getting Cat Quest II on PS4 is a bit more expensive now. It only came in a "Pawsome Pack" with Cat Quest and Cat Quest II, but it is sold out every where and now the only way to get a copy is from a reseller on eBay. I ended up paying around $60 for a sealed copy of it because I really wanted it for my collection after playing the two games on Steam, and while that was about a $20 markup from the retail price, it was worth it to me for my collection. Switch copies can still be had for the retail price of $39.99 though. PS5 copies of Cat Quest III can be found on Amazon going for a sale price pretty often (they're actually on sale right now for $17, which I'll probably cop one for myself for that price).

Anyways, enough of me rambling and trying to be a salesman for the games. These are really fun games an for the price you can often find them, I really don't think you can go wrong with them. Especially if you have someone to play Cat Quest 2 and 3 co-op with. These games are really fun as single-player, I imagine they are even more enjoyable with someone to play them with. Just keep in mind that the co-op for these games is local co-op and not online.

[Moonface]

I've always had a vague interest in these games whenever I see a new one being advertised, but I've always been on the fence because my initial reaction is always "Ooh it has cats!" and worried that was blinding me as to whether the games are actually gonna be my cup of tea or not. Hearing they're not a major time sink helps a lot though; given the RPG-looking nature of the trailers I was expecting them to be long games which wouldn't be a bad thing except going through a whole series of long games would be a tall order.

[Dragon Lord]

Yeah, the games are pretty short overall. As I mentioned, I was able to 100% the first two in about 10 hours each, and that's with the Steam version of the first game being longer to 100% than console versions, due to being required to play through the game multiple times with multiple difficulty modifiers active.

If you don't care about 100% and are just going from stat to finish, I'd say these games are 6-8 hours at most. The third one might be a tad longer, but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet to know for sure, but I can't imagine it's that much longer than the first two games. They are very casual games that are just all around a good time, fun with not much challenge, which some people might not like, but I always enjoy finding a few games here and there that are nice "completely shut my brain off and not have to think about anything" games.

[Moonface]

Yeah, the games are pretty short overall. As I mentioned, I was able to 100% the first two in about 10 hours each, and that's with the Steam version of the first game being longer to 100% than console versions, due to being required to play through the game multiple times with multiple difficulty modifiers active.

Do you know why the Steam version has that difference to the console versions? o.o

[Dragon Lord]

I'm not sure why they made them different from each other. The Steam version came out a few months before the PS4 version, so perhaps they decided that requiring the players to play on Mew Game with the modifiers was too much of a headache and they didn't want to put them through it again. The weird thing is that there are more trophies for the game than Steam achievements, and they accomplished this by breaking certain achievements into multiple parts. Like the Steam version has just one achievement for completing all side quests, one for getting all skills, one for reaching level 99 and one for clearing all dungeons. For the PS4 version of the game, they took all of those and split them into three trophies each for different completion percents. Like instead of just one trophy for reaching level 99, there are three for reaching level 10, then level 50 and then the level 99 trophy.

So they got rid of anything requiring playing multiple times through the game with the Mew Game modifiers and instead opted to just split completion achievements into multiple stages to extend the trophy list. I know that trophy lists are required to hit a certain amount of points, so they probably did it for the purpose of hitting the correct trophy points count that they needed for the game.