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Is Choice of the Cat worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-led story about a cat
- Players interested in family drama who prefer manipulation and moral choices over combat
- Cat enthusiasts who want to role-play affectionate, mischievous, or tyrannical behavior
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking visual presentation, since the game uses text without graphics or sound effects
- Players wanting conventional combat, exploration, or equipment-focused RPG progression
- Readers who prefer a short, linear story rather than repeated choices across a 600,000-word novel
- Players looking for a serious tone rather than comic cat behavior and human manipulation
Our take on Choice of the Cat
This adventure replaces the usual human-centered hero role with a domestic cat whose tools are affection, mischief, manipulation, and destruction. Rather than focusing on combat or exploration, it makes household relationships, petty disruption, and social influence the main structure of play.
What is Choice of the Cat?
Choice of the Cat is a 600,000-word interactive novel played entirely through text, with no graphics or sound effects.
Players control a rescue cat living with a family facing possible divorce, making choices that shape relationships with owners, neighbors, pets, and other cats. The cat can seek affection, manipulate people, take revenge, rescue others, become famous through viral videos, or influence political events. Play as male, female, or without a defined gender. Multiple approaches include kindness, intimidation, mischief, quiet persuasion, and destructive behavior. Activities range from shredding possessions and stealing objects to helping an owner pursue a recording contract. The story supports repeated playthroughs as different kinds of cat.
How Choice of the Cat plays
- 01Choice-driven novel
- Decisions determine how the cat treats its family, allies, and human targets.
- 02Multiple cat identities
- Play with a male, female, or unspecified gender identity and pursue different feline personalities.
- 03Family manipulation
- Interfere in a troubled household by supporting its relationships or pushing its members apart.
- 04Political interference
- Disrupt important calls or use calming tactics while the humans pursue political goals.
- 05Repeated playthroughs
- Different choices support play as varied kinds of cat across the text-based story.
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Choice of the Cat: platforms & release
Is Choice of the Cat worth it?
It is worth it if: interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-led story about a cat. Skip it if: players seeking visual presentation, since the game uses text without graphics or sound effects.
Where can I download Choice of the Cat?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Choice of the Cat's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Choice of the Cat on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
