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Cat God Ranch
This delightful little game is the equivalent of a casino slot machine, but instead of money it asks for a little bit of mental effort. Effectively a dopamine producing machine. The concept is simple: a static board of tiles. Every turn, you draw all of the animals in your warehouse and distribute them randomly over the board, each one taking up the space of one tile. Each animal produces X money per turn, so total that up. Every X turns, you are required to pay a fee - pay enough or lose. The twists are obvious, given how popular metaprogression as a mechanic has become over the last decade. First are the run modifiers that you can acquire from the store. Second are the animals themselves, who all have separate powers and values. Third is the Cat God you're paying the fee to - each one offers a different ability or passive buff.
That was all very dry, wasn't it? Here's why I love it: the artwork is adorable, every animal makes a distinct sound (that's clearly made by someone imitating animal noises), and all of their powers tie into the theme of the animal. Rabbits, when next to other rabbits, breed and cover your board in rabbits. Lynx naturally eat rabbits, and make a bonus payment when they eat. You can probably guess what a new animal will do just by knowing about it! Okay, maybe not exactly, but you'll get the idea. Hoofed animals want to graze on grassy tiles and be near each other. Carnivores want to eat. It lends this entire delightful vibe to the game, where you're assembling a little zoo that produces oodles of money.
Its overall structure is, perhaps, a little grindy as it asks you to beat the game not once but at least seven times per new board. It has oodles of unlocks - animals to find, gods to unlock, items to buy - and there are even two more game modes I haven't touched yet. Not to mention collecting all of the achievements!
I picked this game up expected an idle amusement inbetween meatier games, and discovered a delightful mixture of chance and strategy. While at its core it's RNG based - you can't choose which animals will appear every day to be added - you CAN influence what kind of animals and what rarity will come, depending on what you do, and there is this feeling of being in control, and needing to make the right choices to make this run successful. Ah, it's a good game! Perfect for relaxing and listening to silly noises and trying to build an explosive combo that gets you the whole game won. -7/8/2025