I maintain a watch out for video games I can use to introduce my young son to new genres. Cat Quest match the invoice final 12 months. It’s an easy motion RPG with cute, clear artwork a few cat slicing up a world of hedgehogs, foxes and, after all, dogs.
It’s at present free to maintain from the Epic Games Store.
Head over to its retailer web page earlier than 4pm GMT tomorrow and you’ll add it to your Epic account eternally.
My son bought hooked on fantasy tales final 12 months because of the Beast Quest novels, of which there are probably a whole bunch. I say “fantasy tales”, however actually he bought hooked on the concept of quests, boss monsters, and hitting boss monsters with swords. Even within the books, the presence of a narrative is almost incidental to him (and presumably to the authors – these will not be nice literature). Cat Quest launched him to the motion RPG, however it additionally fulfilled his deep longing to fuck up a dragon.
I bought Cat Quest for my child, however I loved it, too. Not a lot for its world – you are a silent procatonist in a pun-filled world, and I’m not the largest fan of puns – however for its easy, timing-based fight. Enemies telegraph the second of their subsequent attack with a meter that fills, and you have a dodge roll for getting out the best way. You additionally collect magic skills over the course of the journey, letting you gradual enemies, set them on fireplace, hit them with chain lightning, and different classics. There’s a straightforward rhythm to it.
Is it one thing I’d play forward of each different hack-and-slasher? No, however if you wish to flip your mind off and bash some beasts for a weekend, I wager you’d have a great time with Cat Quest. And in case you or your child likes it, its sequel provides co-op, makes development extra attention-grabbing, and is frequently discounted such that it is at present £4.28/€4.94/$4.94 on Steam.
If you actually prefer it, there is a Cat Quest 3 on the best way someday subsequent 12 months known as Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean.
