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Cats Make You Smarter!

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Meet 50 hand-drawn, funny cats and let them make you smarter by matching 2, 3, 4 or 5 of them on a board in 5 game modes.

What works
  • Free to play
  • Cute hand-drawn cat artwork
  • Multiple game modes and difficulty settings
  • Easy achievements
  • Relaxing music and sounds
Things to keep in mind
  • Limited replay value for some
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Some find artwork style repetitive or unappealing
  • Lack of narrative or deep gameplay
  • Fullscreen resolution issues reported

What to play next

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Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

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Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Cats Make You Smarter!: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fantasy, Violence, Story, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Survival, Story.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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