Catio Simulator combines clicker mechanics with light management as you build and decorate an outdoor cat enclosure to draw felines. You'll pet arriving cats to prepare them for adoption, earning fees that fund new decorations and upgrades to your petting abilities. It's suited for players who want a low-stress, idle-friendly experience centered on collecting cats and watching your catio grow.
About this game
Catio Simulator is a casual clicker game in which you decorate a catio to attract cats. Pet your cats to get them ready for adoption, collect adoption fees, and buy new decorations and petting abilities!
What players are saying
▲ Recommended0 hrs
such a cute little incremental thats chill and also hand drawn in a world full of ai slop. its so chill to play while you watch something and so many different types of kitty i love
The game is incredibly cute. It has beautiful hand-drawn visuals, charming animations, and adorable interactions with the cats.
So why is the review negative? Simply because the game currently lacks content. I reached essentially everything it has to offer in about three hours, and that is far too short, even for a game this charming.
The biggest problem is the lack of a meaningful end game. By the time you unlock the fanciest patio and start attracting the opulent cats, you can end up sitting on trillions of cash with practically nothing worthwhile left to spend it on. There need to be more end-game upgrades, money sinks, particularly auto petting and petting per click upgrades so that Opulent cats don't take minutes of clicking just to fill the petting bar.
It makes no sense to spend all that time building a beautiful patio that attracts the rarest cats, only to receive almost no meaningful reward for reaching that point. The opulent cats also take a ridiculous amount of repetitive petting before you can adopt even one of them. The common cats are manageable, but the rare ones turn the process into a grind without giving you anything useful to work toward.
As much as I love the aesthetic, I cannot recommend the game in its current state. Three hours of content is simply not enough.
I genuinely hope the developer continues updating it, because the foundation is lovely. More upgrades, better uses for late-game money, and some form of meaningful end-game progression could turn it into something to highly recommend. Right now, reaching the end game does not feel particularly rewarding.
This is a hotfix for a bug that caused a test save file to persist into the live version of the game for new players. I'm very sorry to anyone already affected by this, as I know it likely spoiled the early stages of the game for you, in particular by skipping the tutorial entirely. If you'd like to start a new save profile to experience the game as intended, you can do this by via the button in the lower right corner of the main menu.
Hey all, this is a small patch to add quality of life features that a few players requested, and to fix a minor bug, as detailed below:You can now pin/unpin specific cats. Pinning an unadopted cat will prevent them from being adopted manually by disabling the adoption button and LB-to-adopt on the controller. Pinned cats will also not be adopted by the auto-adopter.In addition to the existing option to enable/disable Vsync, there is now an optional FPS cap setting under settings > audio & graphics > cap fps. (Note that Vsync and FPS cap cannot be enabled simultaneously. I recommend keeping Vsync enabled unless you want to set the FPS cap below your monitor's refresh rate to limit GPU usage.)There is a new option under settings > gameplay > swap pet and select, which swaps the inputs for petting and selecting cats when enabled. This setting will swap the controls for both mouse and controller/steam deck. The controls display in the lower right corner will reflect this swap if visible.A bug that allowed incongruent cat names (e.g. a grey cat named orange) has been fixed. Existing incongruently named cats you have already seen will not be changed--sometimes there just really is a grey cat named orange.Best,Luke
