List of cat video games
This is an incomplete list of video games which strongly feature cats, other felines and anthropomorphic feline characters. This includes games where a player character is a feline, or where a feline is The Primary antagonist, as well as games which feature felines as the primary enemy variant. Video games which have a cat theme not directly related to individual characters are also included.
Game or series |
Year |
Platform(s) |
Character(s) and details |
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Alley Cat |
1983 |
Atari 8-bit, MS-DOS |
Players must guide the titular cat to a female cat which resides in an apartment, avoiding obstacles and completing mini-games on the way. |
Asameshimae Nyanko |
1994 |
Super Famicom |
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Blinx: The Time Sweeper |
2002 |
Xbox |
3D platform game in which players control the titular anthropomorphic orange cat. Blinx is the janitor of the Time Factory, the place where time is created and repaired, he is tasked with defeating monsters which are attempting to control the flow of time. |
Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space |
2004 |
Xbox |
In this sequel Blinx and his time-sweeping cat colleagues are set against a gang of pigs who wish to manipulate time for their own purposes. Players can also control the pigs and use their unique time manipulation abilities. |
Bloody Roar series |
1997–2003 |
Arcade, GameCube, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox |
Uriko the Half Beast, a zoanthrope from this fighting game series, can morph into a cat |
Breath of fire series |
1993–2008 |
Misc. |
Katt, Rei, Cray, and Lin. |
Bubsy series |
1993–1996 |
Atari Jaguar, Mega Drive, PlayStation, SNES, Windows |
A series of four platform games starring an athropomorphic bobcat. |
Claw |
1997 |
Windows |
Platform game starring Captain Claw, an anthropomorphic cat pirate, who must defeat the Cocker Spaniard Armada. |
Darkstalkers |
1994–1997 |
Arcade, Dreamcast, PlayStation, PSP, Sega Saturn |
Felicia, catgirl character from the series. |
EverQuest series |
1999–present |
Mac OS X, Windows |
The Vah Shir, feline humanoids, are one of the player races. |
Final Fantasy VII |
1997 |
PlayStation, PSN, Windows |
Cait Sith is based on Cait Sidhe from Celtic mythology. Red XIII. |
Final Fantasy XI |
2002–present |
PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox 360 |
The Mithra. |
Fur Fighters |
2000 |
Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Windows |
Third-person shooter, the player can control one of six animal characters, one of which is Juliette the cat. Each character has different abilities, all of which must be used to locate the kidnapped children on each of the game's levels. |
Klonoa series |
1997–2008 |
Game Boy Advance, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Wii, WonderSwan |
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Legend of Kay |
2005 |
Nintendo DS, PlayStation 2 |
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Mappy |
1983 |
Arcade, Famicom, MSX, NEC PC-6001, NEC PC-8801, Sharp X1, Virtual Console |
Mappy the police mouse must bounce on trampolines to access different floors within 16 houses in this platform game. The objective is to recover 10 pieces of stolen loot from each house, which have been stolen by Goro the cat and the Meowky gang. |
Mega Man V |
1994 |
Game Boy |
Tango. |
Mouse Trap |
1981 |
Arcade, Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Intellivision |
A maze game and clone of Pac Man in which players guide a mouse through mazes in order to eat cheese. The mazes are patrolled by cats which will kill the player's mouse on contact, unless the mouse first eats a bone and turns into a cat-biting dog. |
Nyan Cat Adventure |
2011 |
Xbox Live Indie Games |
Nyan Cat flies, jumps, gravitates and toasters his way to adventure in the year 20XX. Produced by 21st Street Games, not to be confused with Techno Kitten Adventure |
Petz series |
1995–present |
Pet cats are the are the subject of several games in the Petz series. |
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Phantasy Star |
1987 |
Game Boy Advance, Master System, Mega Drive, PlayStation 2, Sega Saturn, Virtual Console |
Myau the Musk Cat is a party member. |
Red Earth |
1996 |
Arcade |
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Rockin' Kats |
1991 |
NES |
Platform game in which players control a cat named Willy and must rescue Jill, his girlfriend, from the crime boss Mugsy. |
Shadow Hearts: From The New World |
2005 |
PlayStation 2 |
Mao. |
Sonic Adventure |
Big the Cat is introduced into the Sonic series and features as a playable character with his own levels and fishing minigame. |
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Sonic Rush |
Blaze the Cat joins Sonic the Hedgehog as a playable character. |
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Stay Tooned! |
1996 |
Windows |
Pixel, Chisel and Fiddle. |
SWAT Kats |
1995 |
SNES |
The Titular characters named T-Bone and Razor. |
Techno Kitten Adventure |
2011 |
Android, iOS, Xbox Live Indie Games, Windows Phone |
Side-scrolling video game where players control a kitten by adjusting its height in order to avoid crashing into the floor, ceiling or obstacles. |
Wizball |
1987 |
Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, ZX Spectrum |
An action game. A wizard's homeworld is drained of color, so he takes control of the titular Wizball in order to defeat enemies and collect droplets of color.{{cite journal | last = Roberts| first = Nick | authorlink = | coauthors = Stone, Ben; Dunn, Mike |
See also
- List of fictional cats in video games