I maintain an eye fixed out for video games I can use to introduce my younger son to new genres. Cat Quest match the invoice final 12 months. It is a easy motion RPG with cute, clear artwork a couple of cat slicing up a world of hedgehogs, foxes and, after all, canines.
It is at the moment free to maintain from the Epic Video games Retailer.
Head over to its retailer web page earlier than 4pm GMT tomorrow and you may add it to your Epic account without end.
My son received hooked on fantasy tales final 12 months because of the Beast Quest novels, of which there are likely a whole lot. I say “fantasy tales”, however actually he received hooked on the thought of quests, boss monsters, and hitting boss monsters with swords. Even within the books, the presence of a narrative is sort of incidental to him (and probably to the authors – these are usually not nice literature). Cat Quest launched him to the motion RPG, but it surely additionally fulfilled his deep longing to fuck up a dragon.
I received 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 am not the most important fan of puns – however for its easy, timing-based fight. Enemies telegraph the second of their subsequent assault with a meter that fills, and you have got a dodge roll for getting out the best way. You additionally collect magic skills over the course of the journey, letting you sluggish enemies, set them on hearth, hit them with chain lightning, and different classics. There’s a straightforward rhythm to it.
Is it one thing I might 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 superb 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 often discounted such that it is at the moment £4.28/€4.94/$4.94 on Steam.
If you happen to actually prefer it, there is a Cat Quest 3 on the best way someday subsequent 12 months referred to as Cat Quest: Pirates of the Purribean.
