CATO: Buttered Cat Review

CATO: Buttered Cat is an awesome but challenging puzzle platformer. Finding the solutions to all the puzzles is the challenging part. It has no missable achievements.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: This is hard to say as it is a puzzle game. A friend completed it in around 8 hours, but I think I would need 20 hours without a guide.
Estimated achievement difficulty: 5/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: There are guides on Steam for all the secrets. However, I’m missing a guide with all the solutions. I hope someone will make one.
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty option. You can use the hint system without missing an achievement
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

What a unique idea to combine a slice of bread with a cat and to have different skill sets for each of them, and for when they are combined. When I learned about this game I was so happy to hear it has no speedrunning achievements or anything like that but that it is a puzzle platformer. What I didn’t know yet is how I underestimated how challenging the puzzles would get and that I would already start struggling in chapter 2 out of 5. I would like to add to that that puzzle games are a hit or miss for me when it comes to understanding and solving them. Give me a sudoku or picross game and I’ll do very well, but for some other puzzles, I would just not be able to see the solution or work it out in any way. So that I’m struggling doesn’t say anything bad about the game, it is even positive. As it comes up with clever solutions to the puzzles!

What I love about CATO: Buttered Cat is how much love for detail there went into the game. There are many skills available to unlock. (With codes you can find online as well as finding secrets in some levels). And it is also great how the game will tell you if you missed a secret. you can see this on the level selection map. But not only the skins, but also the details in the levels and how creative the solutions are.

For the achievements you just need to play through the game and find all the hidden secrets. None of them are missable and for the most part, you can see where you’re missing secrets.

I give CATO: Buttered Cat 4 out of 5 stars.

This review for CATO: Buttered Cat was written on 16 September 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 22 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.