CATO: Buttered Cat similar games & best alternatives

CATO: Buttered Cat

Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch, Linux, PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

CATO = Cat + Toast = Buttered cat paradox = Anti-gravity 🍞🐈🧩 200+ puzzles，40+ skins

What works
  • Charming and cute art style
  • Creative and well-designed puzzles
  • Smooth controls and satisfying mechanics
  • Secret levels and collectibles add replay value
  • Balanced difficulty curve with helpful hints
Things to keep in mind
  • Some repetitive music
  • Minor bugs reported in mini-games
  • Story is minimal and somewhat vague
  • Lack of keybinding customization
  • Some puzzles rely on timing which may frustrate

What to play next

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Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • One Hand Clapping

  • Fatum Betula

  • Elong Plug

  • Demon Tides

  • Quern - Undying Thoughts

  • Friendly Fire

  • Canvas of Kings

  • Cat on a Diet

  • I and Me
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Fatum Betula

  • Elong Plug

  • Demon Tides
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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

CATO: Buttered Cat: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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    "Players control two cats with different abilities and freely choose how to move boxes and solve puzzles, including switching cats or playing co-op."

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  • Competence

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  • Cooperation

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    "The mechanic of controlling two cats simultaneously requires internal coordination, resembling cooperative interaction between the two characters."

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  • Creativity

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  • Experimenting

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  • Expression

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  • Fantasy

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