A pirate hunt for 100 cats

Find Cats With Friends drops you and your crew on a mysterious tropical island where cats make the rules. You are a band of pirates who washed up here, and your loot is a hundred mischievous kitties scattered across the whole place. Your job is simple to say and slow to finish: track down every cat and carry it back to the cat box. The cats are not cooperating. They tuck themselves under bushes, inside tree hollows, on top of hills, and up the masts of abandoned pirate ships, so you will spend real time climbing, searching, and doubling back over ground you already covered. Along the way you will find tools and items that speed the hunt up, and the game asks you to use them wisely if you want all hundred cats gathered quickly. The island itself is bright tropical nature with local inhabitants to interact with, and the whole thing plays out in 3D from a third-person view.

Playing it as a group

Online Co-op is the core of this one. You gather a team of up to 6 players and split the island between you, which matters a lot when a hundred cats are hidden across it. One person can work the high ground and the ship masts while another sweeps the bushes and hollows, and everyone hauls finds back to the cat box. There is a co-op campaign to run through together, so the group shares one goal rather than competing for a score. The store text also lists Singleplayer, so you can go it alone if the friends are offline, though the search takes longer with fewer eyes on the island. Communication helps here: calling out a cat you spotted but cannot reach lets someone else grab it, and calling out areas you already cleared keeps the group from covering the same ground twice.

Before you start

Set aside a decent chunk of time. Finding a hundred hidden cats across a full island is a long, steady search rather than a quick round, and the cats in the awkward spots — hilltops, tree hollows, ship masts — will eat the most time. Expect walking and climbing as the main verbs: this is tagged as a walking simulator and parkour, so the pace is relaxed exploration with some vertical work, not combat. The tone is cute and family friendly, with no violence in the premise, which makes it a comfortable pick for a mixed group. Bring patience for the last stretch, since the final cats are usually the ones tucked into the places you already walked past twice.

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