Stroke the Cat (2022)

Developer: Game Achievements Ltd
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
Genres: Arcade
Main story: about 10 minutes
Completionist: about 10 minutes
Where to get it: PlayStation Store

The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A deadpan, self-aware simulation of petting an unrealistically realistic cat, repetitively and indefinitely, until you relax or get bored.

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About

Do you love cats or have ever wondered what it would be like to own one? Well we have, but we actually have no idea and we can't actually offer you a real cat. What is on offer is an ultra realistic unrealistic representation of what it is like to have a cat, aka nothing like the real thing. You can however stroke it and make it purr, then you have the opportunity to do it again, and again and then stroke it as many times as you want before you are completely relaxed... or annoyed... or bored... then you can leave.

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.