Yes — Splat Cat is free to play, so you can install and play it without buying anything.

Is Splat Cat Steam Deck compatible?

Mostly. Valve rates Splat Cat Playable on Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual tweaking — a community controller layout, or zooming in on small text.

Can I play Splat Cat on Mac?

Yes. Splat Cat has a native macOS version on Steam.

Is Splat Cat multiplayer?

No — Steam lists Splat Cat as single-player only.

Is Splat Cat on PC Game Pass?

No — Splat Cat is not on PC Game Pass right now.

Splat Cat

Name: Splat Cat
Brand: Helen Spight
Availability: InStock

Helen Spight · June 18, 2022 · Casual, Platformer, Puzzle, 2D Platformer, Puzzle Platformer

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About Splat Cat

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Splat Cat is a puzzle platformer where you paint your way through levels while grappling with the emotional journey of artistic creation and self-doubt. Navigate increasingly surreal environments filled with manifestations of creative insecurity, culminating in a confrontation with the embodiment of your artistic fears before discovering the beauty in what you've created.

Play as an artist in this puzzle platforming game, painting their way through their discovery of art, and the creative block that lies within the medium. As the game progresses, you dive deeper and deeper into your insecurities, doubts, and fears as an artist, and begin to encounter different types of monsters while trying to reach your goal. Finally, defeat the personification of these insecurities about your art in an epic boss battle before revealing the beautiful artwork you made along the way.

Splat Cat — game info

Platforms: Windows, macOS
Steam Deck: Playable
Player modes: Single-player
PC Game Pass: Not included

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What Steam players say

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

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Players love this cute, relaxing puzzle game with charming cat-themed content, praising its unique gameplay and calling it highly recommendable. The main complaint involves a display scaling issue where the screen cuts off at the edges, making some UI elements difficult to see, though the core game itself is considered cool and enjoyable once you get past that technical problem.

Recommended Nov 30, 2025

Very cute, wish there was more

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Recommended Aug 12, 2026

runs really smoothly!! had alot of fun playing this. very cute and clean and un covering the background was fun too!! definitely gonna play again as a winddown game. the colors pop and the main character cat is so cute!!

Recommended Feb 8, 2026

God tier game, so happy i found it - amazing, cant recommend it enough - hands down game of the year!

Recommended Jan 23, 2026

i LOVE this game

Recommended Jan 14, 2026

nice relaxing game <3 rec

Recommended Oct 4, 2025

I've started this game and quite enjoyed it, but when I play the full screen is too far in. What I mean by that is the corners are cut off. I tried to exit out and in, and restart my game. but it didn't work. I assume this isn't a feature in the game as in the photos of the game's home page you can clearly tell where your paint brush and your star is at. But if we push that out of the way, this game is really cool and unique!

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