Scaredy Cat

Scaredy Cat (2025)

Hot Dawgs Studio · August 25, 2025 · Adventure, Casual, Action-Adventure, Puzzle, Exploration

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About Scaredy Cat

A scaredy cat steps into the forest alone to find a rare flower for her friends — but some journeys are more than they seem.

Scaredy Cat — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Players praise the game's charming aesthetic, emotional story with an effective plot twist, and its short, wholesome adventure about standing up for yourself. However, common complaints center on clunky platforming controls (especially the tree climbing sections), occasional technical bugs like malfunctioning lamps in the labyrinth, and one report of a severe crash to black screen on exit that locked the keyboard.

Recommended Sep 25, 2026
A fun little game. The scenery is very nice and the story is interesting.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 12, 2026
A littley short, but deffinietly pretty enjoyable and made my day a littley better1!1! :33
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 6, 2026
Nice short game Also the controls did not mention it but you can run by L-shift or pressing in your joystick
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 3, 2026
Scaredy Cat is a really cute little adventure game that I found surprisingly touching. I play as a young kitty who wants to prove that she is brave enough to travel through the darkest part of the forest alone and find a rare flower for her friends. It starts off feeling like a simple little adventure, but the story gradually becomes more meaningful as I meet the strange inhabitants of the forest and learn more about what is really going on. The exploration is very straightforward, which I think suits the game well. I move through the stylized forest, look around the different areas and interact with the characters I meet along the way. There are no complicated controls to learn, so I can concentrate on the story and the little details in the environments. I liked the way the game encourages me to actually pay attention to the places I am walking through rather than turning everything into a big mechanical challenge. The dialogue was probably my favourite part. There are some genuinely funny conversations and a few story twists that I was not expecting. The game has a nice balance between being cute and being a little more emotional than the colourful art style initially suggests…
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 14, 2026
This game is SO SWEET! I kept getting frustrated till today I finally found the tree for the second monocole. I LOVE this game. Definitely reccomend.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 6, 2026
Very cute looking game about a little furball who gets peer-pressured into finding a flower in the spooky woods. Along the way she learns to stand up for herself, and not let others push her around. [spoiler] She just learns it a bit too late [/spoiler] The game consists of some light exploring, some CLUNKY platforming, and a bunch of fetch quests. Besides the awkward jumping, the only issue I encountered was one of the lamps in the labyrinth didn't seem to work correctly, you had a limited time to get from one lamp to the next, which recharges your light, but it wasn't recharging, so I kept getting sent back to the start...after a few tries tho I guess it fixed itself and worked. I won in about 20min, and minor issues aside had a good time. I saw the plot twist coming a mile away tho [spoiler] was hoping it would be a "on the threshold, not over it" type of thing, but it wasn't :{ [/spoiler] Really nice job for a short student game!
1 found this helpful

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