The Meowfficer

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"The Meowfficer" is a poorly made JRPG/RPG Maker looking (it was made with GameMaker Studio, hard to say if that's better or worse, but it's still crap) action adventure game where you control a cat in a cat police force and deal with problems caused by dogs (wow, racism allegory, so edgy). The cringey e-book text brackets very lame top down shooting sections, all of which are made badly and look like garbage. This was a failure on Steam Direct. The use of low-resolution, ugly pixelcrap here is dishonestly presented as a "deliberate artistic choice", but we all know it's because the developer wasn't capable of anything better. The result is a visually unappealing game, especially when compared to thousands of professionally developed games here. Whether the developer lacked the talent for modern visuals or the money to hire an artist is irrelevant. This choice significantly detracts from the game... gaming is a visual medium. Games like Undertale and Stardew Valley are incredibly rare exceptions that made it [i]in spite[/i] of the pixelcrap holding them back (imagine how much better they would be if the graphics didn't suck). Pixelcrap is never okay. This was made with the god…

So I first played this over on gx.games. I absolutely love this, and I love the storyline and art. It’s a bit akin to Stray, sad, and similar to Detroit Become Human in gameplay. All of those are similar in wanting to experience it for the first time again. Short but sweet, with a bunch of dialogue and a few achievements to discover. A genuinely amazing game, and all free. I highly recommend.

Gameplay isn't appealing. Visually, it's an ugly game, full screen isn't possible and no controller support so controls with k+m on a laptop are awkward so, overall, a miss to this game.

NEUTRAL review. Interesting game + concept inspired by real life issues (in certain countries). I didn't complete the game, so I'm not sure how the storyline goes. The first half of the story was entertaining enough, though the dialogue was a bit cheesy, slow and illogical at times. Characters are interesting, and there flavour text sprinkled throughout the world. Not a fan of the combat mechanics though, it's hard on the eyes. We also aren't able to change the game resolution, I had to hide my task bar to view the entire game screen. Also, "harsh language" or "profanity" should have been included in the "Mature Content Description".

I like it, kinda hoped it would be a bit longer though. Short and simple, it's good.