The life sim the place you lead a cat colony has a brand new demo
I am going to spare you my cat puns and inform you straight up: The life sim the place you play as a cat is again. There’s gardening, foraging, adorning, wooing your cat mate, and various feline fight, really. Cattails: Wildwood Story is planning to launch later in 2023 nevertheless it has a demo out there proper now on Steam.
I performed the primary Cattails recreation, which was simply known as Cattails and launched in 2017, years again and was shocked that there is really an enormous territory management and fight facet to it alongside all the standard cozy actions of comparable life sims. That is returned for the sequel, which sends your cat colony to say a brand new residence the place you may put down roots but in addition battle towards different cat factions across the map.
The brand new demo for Cattails: Wildwood Story permits you to play by means of the primary season of the sport, which is simply 10 days, shorter than the 28 day seasons most farm sims angle for. You may begin by designing your customized cat with a ridiculous degree of element, selecting your cat clan’s official identify and designation (clan, kingdom, syndicate, and so on) and your individual title (captain, king, foreman, director, and so on) which is a degree of administrative specificity I suppose I ought to have anticipated from cats.
Reasonably than working round to satisfy an enormous solid of cat characters off the bat, I am requested to construct a temple to our cat spirit—and I assume I must be grateful {that a} lion does not thoughts being the god of my feral home shorthairs—after which start gathering choices to entice new cats to my clan (the Timberland Syndicate, in case you had been curious).
I spent my first season searching squirrels and different critters within the forest and starting to stake a declare on different grid squares of the map by preventing towards different AI cat clans hanging on the market. There is a minor survival ingredient as effectively—conserving your starvation meter full—and likewise some particular cat fight expertise like a knockback roar.
What I loved in regards to the unique Cattails was that it did not thoughts being a bit goofy. It is a pixel artwork cat recreation with detailed cat portraits and cat romance with a whole territory management and administration ingredient strapped on. That is undoubtedly nonetheless true in what I’ve performed within the demo for Wildwood Story with its Fus-Ro-Dah-like cat shout, lovingly rendered cat friends, and excessive character creation particulars.
Cattails: Wildwood Story is taking part within the large Steam Subsequent Fest demo occasion this month however has gone forward and made its personal demo out there beginning as we speak.
