A Wild Catgirl Appears!

A Wild Catgirl Appears!

NewWestGames · 2016 · LGBTQ+, Female Protagonist, Choose Your Own Adventure, Dating Sim, Visual Novel

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About A Wild Catgirl Appears!

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A Wild Catgirl Appears is a short romance visual novel where you join a high school coding club that accidentally brings their video game creation to life as a real catgirl. Choose your romantic path among multiple girls and unlock over 1.5 hours of story per route, now expanded with a new character exclusive to Steam.

A Wild Catgirl Appears - Now on Steam!
A Wild Catgirl Appears is a short romance visual novel featuring multiple routes, different girls to date and of course, catgirls!

Synopsis
A Wild Catgirl Appears follows the story of Ami, a loner at high school, as she joins the school's coding club and sets about making her first video game. They create Starla, an awesome catgirl ninja and create a figure to interact with their game. The figure doesn't quite work, but the next day Starla is quite real!

Who will you choose to date?

Includes free update!
All new for Steam is Eiko, a new catgirl character and route to the game adding over an hour of extra play time! Achievements and trading cards are also supported! Each route takes approximately 1.5 hours to play through so please try to get all of the achievements!

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Please note - a 64-bit OS is required to play this game.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 13, 2025
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Not recommended Feb 20, 2026
[h2]A Wild Catgirl Disappears![/h2] The writing is extremely juvenile, making for a difficult read, and some of the achievements seem to be bugged, killer combo you got there. The message at the end was really unnecessary too.
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Recommended Jul 15, 2026
Not actively bad but average at best. The writing is passable but the scenario is kind of shallow and the fantasy elements do not really add anything to the theme of self and social acceptance. Many of the characters look like there is something wrong with their necks or like their faces were pasted onto existing illustrations. I have no idea what the note Eiko reads in the ending is about. I guess it is something from the developer and I am just unaware of whatever real-life drama inspired it. I am cutting the developer a little slack here because this appears to be their first work but while the game is not bad enough to actively advise people against buying it, it does not really have anything that makes it worth recommending.
Not recommended Jul 2, 2026
Relatively easy 100% achievos, but negative because: - Issues with not getting achievos and having to delete files to fix it - Did not really feel like story was all that interesting
Recommended Jul 5, 2025
The Game is quite short, and depending on your reading speed could probably be knocked out in an hour or two. It isn't overly complex, no stat tracking or labyrinthine progression path. to my knowledge there isn't any real fail states but at time of writing i have only done one path. As a whole the game reminds me of a flash game, and I do not mean that as an insult. It strikes me heavily as an early game made by someone who has a soft spot for visual novels and made a solid attempt at it. While an argument could be made about whether it stuck the landing or not, the game is a cute, simple story that costs a few dollars at the max. And with the saturation of slop, asset flips, and shovelware there is on steam, you could do significantly worse than this game.
Recommended Feb 11, 2025
I never thought a visual novel about catgirls would not only captivate me but heal a relationship I thought was beyond repair. A Wild Catgirl Appears is more than just a game—it’s a masterpiece of storytelling and art, wrapped in a charming, emotional package that will stay with you long after you close the game. The story? Incredible. It’s deceptively simple at first glance—lighthearted and fun—but it has a surprising depth that caught me off guard. It’s sweet, emotional, and full of characters that feel real in ways you wouldn’t expect. I came in for cute catgirls and left with a heart full of hope and perspective on life I never expected. The art style? Breathtaking. Every scene is crafted with so much love and detail that you can feel it. The characters are stunning, each with unique expressions that pull you deeper into their world. It’s not just visuals—it’s art that stirs your soul. But this game didn’t just entertain me; it changed my life. My father and I had been distant for years. His battle with addiction strained our relationship beyond recognition. I bought this game on a whim, thinking it’d be a distraction from life’s heaviness. What I didn’t expect was for my fa…

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