Cat Quest III Review

What another awesome installment. you can play this without playing any of the prequels. Keep an eye out for the point of no return and finish everything before entering that door. ~10 hours to completion.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: Around 10 hours
Estimated achievement difficulty: 3/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: This guide will help you find missing gear, but for the most part you don’t need a guide at all.
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: Kinda, if you go through the ending you can’t go back, but the game will warn you about that.
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No, you can play on the story difficulty and still unlock all the achievements
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

I love the Cat Quest series so much and this third installment is so awesome! I loved moving around with my ship, shooting canon balls at enemies, and finding all the hidden secrets. One thing The Gentlebros (the developers) do so well within this series is that everything is there for a reason… A specific text blob when doing an action, mist, patterns with shells, it all is there for a good reason!

In Cat Quest III you are on an adventure to find the Northern Star. You start on a small island and will do your first dungeon over there, but then the world of Cat Quest 3 is all yours. And you might not be able to fight every enemy just yet, there is always a save point around the corner, so trying out and seeing how far you can come doesn’t hurt at all.

The most amazing thing are all the (little) secrets, there are just so many. You will constantly have the feeling you explored something special, or you have an idea of what to do next. However, the second best thing by far is that your cat will change looks by what you decide to wear. The gear has special abilities so you don’t want to choose them all by looks, but it is just nice to see the armor change. By the end, my cat was wearing a very ugly head, but it had such nice stats.

Of course, we can’t furrrget all the cat puns. How have they already filled 3 games full with cat puns without boring us? That is just a skill on its own!

I only have 2 small complaints. the first one is that I would have loved to see a quest log. You can kinda see the quests on the map, but I would have loved just a short list to remind me what I’m working on. And the second thing is the white screen. Sometimes when loading ( for example at the start of the game) the screen turns totally white. This kinda hurt my eyes. I wish it was a black screen instead of a white screen. Both things are quite minor.

The achievements in Cat Quest 3 are for completing just everything. Get every bounty reward, find every item in the game, and complete a lot of side quests. After you finish the game you can’t go back into your save file, so finish everything before entering that specific chamber… the game will give you one warning about this, so make sure you don’t skip text so you don’t miss this. For the rest… just keep exploring and be curious about why something is there! I missed a few items when I thought had explored everything. Gladly there is a guide where you can see all the items listed and then click on it to find out how to get it.

I give Cat Quest III 4.5 out of 5 stars and I hope we will see many more Cat Quest sequels!

This review for Cat Quest III was written on 9 August 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 30 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.