The Cat Machine
Cranktrain · 2015 · Cats, Indie, Strategy, Puzzle, Logic
PC
Very Positive93% · 121
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About The Cat Machine
"There’s humour here in spades... It’s fun, fast, colourful"
- Rock Paper Shotgun
The Cat Machine is a game of logic, and also cats. Cats riding around on Trains. As we are all aware, the stability of planet earth's orbit around the sun is maintained by an enormous and very secret underground machine. A machine where cats of various colours ride around on trains, as cats have done since time immemorial.
Without this secret mechanism, the earth would undoubtedly fold in on itself, probably with a rather satisfying popping noise, but also with the unpleasant side-effect of then ceasing to exist.
The Cat Machine places you in charge of designing that contraption.
A fun logical puzzler, the game is all about working on a solution, the correct design that will 'process' multiple configurations of cat trains. Cats can only travel on tracks that are the same colour as the cat itself (of course) and the cat at the front of the track decides where the whole train will go. Once a cat has traveled along a coloured track, it flies away, as cats are well known to do. The goal is, for every train, make all the cats, including the white one at the end, fly into the ether.
This is the only way to save the earth.
- More than fifty levels!
- So many cats, you wouldn't believe it. It has, I think, all the cats.
- Beautiful, beautiful music!
- Utilises high-fidelity, 60fps Advanced Cat/Train Simulation Technology for maximum cuteness.
- Support for Windows, Mac, and even our Linux friends.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I enjoyed the concept but it didn't click with me and overall, I didn't enjoy it. Not to knock the game and I wish I could leave a review with a "mid" option, so I'm leaving a thumbs up because it's well made and other people are enjoying it.1 found this helpful
I recommend, good puzzles.1 found this helpful
i 100%'ed this years ago. Still have fond memories, still would play again! Play the cat game!
Send cats around convoluted machines on trains to launch them into space and correct the Earth's orbit? Who are you to question the Science Cat? The puzzles are good and can be surprisingly hard. The idea is absolutely insane, in the best way possible. The cats are cute. What's not to like about this game? Lovely. Definitely recommend.
Overall, I am a cat person so I enjoy playing it. After playing for a while I realized that this game sometimes is not only purely about the logics and how you arrange the orders, but also about the space and the position of each hub. Because the limitation of the space will make some solution not working at all, and cats will collide with each other. So the seemingly workable solution is quite delusional. Think before hand is important but trial and error is more essential in the context of this game.
Build coloured bridges in just the right way to spin off all the cats as they traverse the level. Its a bit janky to control, and I was initially a little disappointed at how simple it was, but when you get in to more complicated levels and work out the logic of it its very satisfying to solve and there are a good amount of levels to go through. Worth picking up, especially if its on sale.
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