Review: Cats Are Liquid: A Light in the Shadows (2015)

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Cats Are Liquid: A Light in the Shadows (2015) is a 2D platformer about a cat abandoned by her owner and put into a world she must try to escape. Basically, you just move the cat around different levels, jumping/rolling/squishing it through each obstacle.

It's cute! The cat is white and glowing, with an emoji face and a blobby body. The game mechanics make for fun visuals– any time the cat squishes down into a tiny area is fantastic– and the levels are all bright primary colors. Good background music, too.

There are 90 levels; I played about 5 or 6 before quitting. Apparently in later levels you get new powers, like flying and exploding. It has a story element which keeps it more interesting than just a typical “jump over things” platformer, but I'm really more into narrative games at the moment, so I set this one aside for now.

Price: $1.00

Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. I played the Mac version.