Fit My Cat is a puzzle game developed and published by RedDeerGames. It’s a cute, cozy game where you organize cats into boxes and…well, that’s about it.
Each level contains a box and a handful of cats. Cats vary in shape and size. Some can fit into a square inside the box. others occupy six or eight blocks. Also, cats can have different shapes, occupying L-shaped blocks. Consider the blocks of Tetris, and that’s what you have here, except for cats.
The goal is to fit all the cats in the box. You can rotate the cats to help them fit better, but there are obstacles. Inside the boxes, balls of yarn or cats can take up space. So how do you rotate all the cats to fit comfortably?
That’s all there is to the game. In addition to the range of cats and box sizes varying from level to level, the game can become repetitive. In general, it is quite simple. I didn’t get stuck until level 41, almost halfway through the game. Some levels did not use all the squares in the box. I was quick enough to measure how many spaces the cats would take up and then I measured all the squares in the box to know if I would need to use all the space.
Unfortunately, Fit My Cat isn’t perfect. Even with just three buttons—select a cat, move and rotate them—the controls weren’t always responsive. I didn’t notice a problem until the last few levels, so I’m wondering if the controls get confusing the more cats there are on the screen.
Regardless, it got frustrating – the L stick hovers over a cat before selecting and moving it. Moving them was never a problem, just their choice. It was almost like the cursor got stuck in the cat box. I would move the stick in all directions, always switching between two or three cats. I had to wait until the cursor caught what I wanted, otherwise I would have to reset the layer and start over. It made an overall relaxing experience annoying at times.
What I liked most about Fit My Cat was the lack of pressure. The music is relaxing, with the cats meowing now and then. There are no timers and no lives. You can start and restart a puzzle whenever needed. It also auto-saves so you can do a puzzle here, another puzzle there and take your time overall. With more than 90 levels, this game will keep you busy. Not to mention, the graphics are charming.
Overall, Fit My Cat is a great choice if you’re a fan of simple, no-stakes puzzle games. Just remember that controls can sometimes have a mind of their own.
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