#43 - Little Kitty, Big City

Little Kitty, Big City is a cute game where you play a cat who fell out of their owner's window, way atop a high-rise apartment.

Miraculously surviving the fall (thanks to some well-placed obstacles and a bird you cling to), you find yourself on the street level several blocks away, unable to find your way home.

The bird admonishes you for your poor flying skills, then offers to get you a fish when you insist you're too tired and hungry to climb all the way back up your building.  But you need to pay him in "shinies," which you can find lying around all over the city.  You will need to find 4 total fish around the city before you'll have the stamina to climb your way back home.

From there, you're traveling around the city, interacting with other animals and collecting cute hats to wear.  You either find the hats lying around in places, or you can pay 5 shinies to the bird at a vending machine and he'll get you a hat out of the machine.

You rescue a rambunctious tanuki stuck in a pipe and he professes to be an inventor.  He offers to let you be his test subject for interdimensional travel.

He's been messing with the spacetime continuum and has connected all the sewer pipes through a sort of wormhole.  This is your fast-travel in the game, so you can cross the map quickly without having to run across the whole city.

He calls it the Petwork™ and insists you unlock each one with a single bird feather.

Another cat will teach you how to sneak up and pounce on birds, causing them to drop a feather.  Don't worry, it's a catch-and-release game; you let the birds fly away as soon as you catch them.

You also meet a duck who has lost his four children.  You agree to track them down for him, but be warned that he won't take them back until all four are accounted for.  So you'll have a trail of ducklings following you everywhere until you find all of them.

Another fascinating character you'll run into is a chameleon who can't change his colors to match his surroundings.  He's convinced you're a magician (like he is!) because you can always see him.  He gives you riddles, then "hides" and you have to track him down across the city.

There's also a beetle, who is the manager for Taffy, a wealthy social influencer cat.  The poor guy is stressed beyond belief and hanging by a thread. #JusticeForBeetle!  He gives you a phone, which you can use to take selfies.  In Steam, snapping a selfie will actually take a screenshot.

There are a few other cats who will teach you how to behave more like a street cat, unlocking different cat reactions you can use throughout the game.

And that's pretty much the jist of the game.  There are a few other characters to meet and plenty of small puzzles to figure out.  Ultimately, you need to get your stamina up so you can scale your building and get home.  Which will be a challenge in itself, even with a full stamina bar.  But there are plenty of fun things to do around the city on your way there.

Or just find one of many nap spots all across the city and take some time to relax.