Nikola Suprak

Charon’s Staircase is a first-person psychological horror adventure developed by Indigo Studios and released on PlayStation 5 way back in 2022. It made a minor splash in the horror gaming community when it released but now, three years later, there are likely very few people that remember it at all. There’s a reason for that, and not just because this specific subgenre of horror became so crowded these past five years that not even the most ardent horror aficionado can play them all.

It is pretty obvious what Cat Quest II is going for – and, no, not just “Cat Quest I but with multiplayer this time” (although that is true as well). Cat Quest II wants to be a warm, cosy, low-investment time-sink. The sort of game you can play and just turn your brain off for a while. It is extremely cartoonish, severely pun heavy, and remarkably simple.

There are a lot of games where most people can sort of guess what they’re going to be getting just from the title. Cat Quest, a 2017 role-playing game developed by The Gentlebros, happens to be one of those games. It is a quest and it involves cats, so, yeah “cat quest” kind of hits the nail on the head in terms of a description of what it is. Beyond that, though, Cat Quest evokes a whimsical, charming, and silly adventure and that is what stands out most about the game.