Game: Hidden Cats in Paris
Genre: Casual, Indie, Hidden Object
System: Steam (Also available on Windows & macOS)
Developer|Publisher: Nukearts Studios
Age Rating: US E | EU 7+
Price: US $0.99| UK £ 0.79| EU € 0.79
Release Date: March 31st, 2022
Review code used with many thanks to Nukearts Studios.
Hidden Cats in Paris has a very on-the-nose title and a very simple premise: find the cats hidden around the game area. What you see is a line-art drawing of the Paris skyline. As you click on them, they are coloured in, while the rest of the area remains an uncoloured line drawing.
Meowing Around the City of Lights
Depending on what is hidden, and how, a hidden object game such as this can be surprisingly challenging. There can be different levels to progress through and find a specified amount of certain objects. This is one weakness of this game. It technically has one “level”, though it’s quite a large area. The objects to find, in this case, are cats, and they can be hidden in surprising ways.
- Found some of the missing felines and the end is in sight.
The large play area can be zoomed in and moved around using the mouse. Zooming in completely is useful to find some of the especially tricky cats. There are a little over 100 cats to find in the given play area, and though they are relatively easy to find in the beginning, they become trickier to find as you eliminate the obvious places. The play area definitely can hide the total amount of cats easily enough, but at times it can feel like the game is adding them to areas you already looked at when you return to look at them again.
- The felines have been found and there is a celebration in the street.
Conclusion
The music and sound effects do add to the atmosphere of the game with some peaceful acoustic guitar or accordion playing in the background at street level. This is replaced with bird-song and church bells as you move to the roofs or higher. Obviously, cats also periodically meow once you have found a few.
The game is cheap for what you get, but I still would have liked some variation in the levels or had the given play area separated into individual levels.
Final Verdict: I Like It
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