Copycat is a game where you play as a cat. That should be enough, and frankly, it almost is. Spoonful of Wonder delivers an emotional adventure where you scratch furniture, knock over priceless heirlooms, and endure abandonment in the woods – all while pondering your worth as a living being. It’s like Stray but instead of saving a dystopian world, you’re just trying not to be emotionally neglected by a woman who should never have been allowed near a litter tray, let alone a pet.
Gaming Heaven
You are a cat. You get to do cat things. This alone carries roughly 70% of the experience. Leaping between fences, toppling mugs out of spite, and meowing at humans who don’t understand you? Glorious. There’s even a touch of variety with dreamlike sequences where you imagine a wild feline life narrated as though David Attenborough is trapped in your subconscious. And those endless runner chase sequences? Surprisingly tense for a game about emotional abandonment and nap spots.
The visual style is warm and lovely, like a blanket wrapped around a mild existential crisis. Bonus points for the customisation – pick your preferred fur pattern before embarking on your descent into emotional chaos.
Gaming Hell
The story is… tonally adventurous. Like someone tried to combine a children’s book and a midlife breakdown. Olive, your new owner, abandons you halfway through the game – literally in the woods – and yet we’re meant to believe she deserves redemption. Narrative closure is so off-screen it might as well be happening in a different game.
Also: quick-time events. Nothing says “immersive cat fantasy” like being asked to mash buttons in order to scratch a curtain.
Final Judgement
A delightfully tragic game about identity, trauma, and canned tuna. You will cry. You will purr. You may also judge humanity. Recommended if you like cats and emotional whiplash.
