
Do NOT Take This Cat Home
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
***Do NOT Take This Cat Home***
It's your day off, but the weather is really bringing you down.
Among other things.
But... you're drawn to the distant sound of something calling out to you...
You follow it to a dark, lonely alley. And at the back of the alley, in a cardboard box...

...is a cat.
A very cute cat.
What will you do?
Will you selfishly ignore it and go enjoy your day off?
Will you befriend it only to abandon it anyway?
Or...
...Will you take it home with you? Surely you will, right?
Right. Who could say no to that face~?
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32K+ words! (3-4~ hours of gameplay, depending on reading speed)
39 unique endings + 1 true ending
Original Soundtrack (available for download!)
Surreal atmosphere, animations, minigames and more!
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WARNING!
This game is not suitable for children or the easily disturbed. It includes depictions of horror elements, human/animal violence and death, abuse/abusive relationship(s), disturbing images, loud noises, flashing images/lights and more.
Individuals suffering from anxiety, depression or certain fears/phobias may not have a safe experience playing this game. For full list of content/trigger warnings go to 'About' section in the game's main menu. Or download .txt file below!
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TRANSLATIONS
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Portuguรชs (BR)
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Italiano
Star Words Team
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ะ ัััะบะธะน
Alexander "lycoris" Shkolnikov
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I DID NOT UPLOAD "DO NOT TAKE THIS CAT HOME" TO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE OR TO ANY OTHER WEBSITE AND I DONT PLAN ON DOING SO FOR NOW.
Please don't download any apps claiming to be my game as they might be viruses!
| Updated | 14 hours ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Rating | Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,205 total ratings) |
| Author | Pixeliminal |
| Genre | Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction |
| Made with | Ren'Py |
| Tags | Cats, Creepy, Horror, Indie, Multiple Endings, Psychological Horror, Ren'Py, Scary, Yandere |
| Average session | A few hours |
| Languages | English |
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Development log
- Russian translation added!Apr 18, 2026
- Fixed dev version uploadOct 09, 2025
- Italian Translation Added!Oct 02, 2025
- Portuguรชs (BR) translation added!Dec 13, 2024
- Removed red cross from gameSep 26, 2024
- Guide for full reset!Jul 12, 2024
- Fixed gameplay bug and grammar errorsJun 09, 2024
- Just fixed a few grammar errorsNov 05, 2023















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This is for sure a game I will NEVER forget, one of my very first games and I ended up spending 6 hours playing just to get every single ending because I love seeing all the different endings and this game was just making me rage-quit, but it's so interesting and I loved it!!
He not available for Android
okay so that was lowkey a masterpiece???? when i first started playing it i thought it was an excellent example of what i call 'wouldn't it be fucked up if ...' horror, horror where you take a very simple idea and follow it to the worst and most absurd conclusion ... junji ito is very good at this type of horror. it's horror that brings a strange sort of a relief to an anxious person, who spends a lot of time ruminating over worst-case scenarios, and seeing it reflected and magnified in media makes it easier to cope with what most often feels like an elusive sense of dread. but then as i kept collecting endings, each one more absurd and horrifying than the last, circling around these ideas of responsibility and abandonment, guilt and alienation, companionship and loneliness, and came closer to understanding the protagonist ... i realized how much this game was really meant for people like me. thank you for making it, and for giving it a weirdly hopeful ending, despite everything that led up to it.
Pls help! I've unlocked 35 endings but can't get to the next ones bc I'm still "not ready" (but I should be right?). I think the game's lagging bc it says I've found 29/40 endings, I do have 35...
I've checked many times the endings I have, looked for answers online, but idk what to do anymore
Me personally how I completed it was I saved the game at every option. So, I could go back and do every option could lead to different endings even past ones from the beginning of the game that did nothing in the past.
Hola, realice una fans traduccion a espaรฑol para pc y android, pueden ver en mi perfil mi discord y mi pagina web
this is such an outstanding game.. at first it seems like a silly little game, but the little insights into the playerโs head, the endgame!! wow, congratulations for makingt this amazing work of art!!!
Habra traduccion al espaรฑol?:c
hola, la tengo en mi perfil!
Did the main menu's background change for anyone else? Like, I'm pretty sure it was cute, but then it just looked unsettling! (Great game tho :D
This has a good message and a sad endingbut happy one too like dude which one is it like you escape the demon but you leave it even though it's going to die ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
loved it...
i LOOOOVED this game sm omg. i got a little frustrated after like 20 endings but STICK TO IT because its super fun. the true ending actually made me tear up a little lmfao but lowkey informed me that i needed to fix my standards a little because i wanted to take the cat back home when it started sounding all sad lol thankfully that wasnโt an option
I know I would have like chose to take the cat home to but good thing that wasn't an option cuz if I did yeah probably died about 1 trillion more times
I feel like it was cool where when playing hide hand seek it was like i went from this game and switched over to The Man From The Window. nice game, when i fix my broken microphone i would love to make a video about this game!
great game!
im having lots of trouble in downloading the game in my Mac air... could I ask for help????
whats not working?
This is such a great visual novel. I'm not a huge fan of visual novels but this is pristine. How do you come up with something like this? I would love to see a sequel or, even better, a prequel. Keep up the good work, Pixel!
Really enjoyed play the game. ๐
Quite sad that there wasn't much information about this game on internet despite it's quality.
How to play on mobile im crine
Joiplay
Can I translate it into spanish?
I have no right words to say rather more impressed with how I feel inside the game, the game felt more immersive playing this especially in the night, you could feel it's presence and maybe how long you probably are but I'm not gonna say more onto that rather I just wanna give feedback how I absolutely WANT MORE of THESE, The sound effects, how despite even I felt bad for the demon itself just because it gave that cute meow sound. Despite this being nearly 3 years, I think there can be more added into it, or maybe even a sequel or another alternative if the creators do, I wish to hope to see there is a future update for more of this game cause honestly, it felt more heartwhelming in a way that just gives you that undescribed feeling. Now I give credits to the people working on this game, Im gonna assume its probably either less or if it's a single dev then congrats, also what softxtouch said or the comment below me is how I also feel playing the game. The relevance toward this game to our world where yes, people do feel lonely and how much they can deeply connect and how linked it is, I do believe that it only extends their view on life. I truly had to reflect my actions and see my surroundings to see what I could've actually done if I was in that situation. GREAT GAME, PLEASE MAKE MORE
This game honestly felt less like horror and more like watching two lonely things try to love each other in the worst possible way. you keep wanting to believe 'IT' cares enough for things to work out, even when deep down you already know it never really can, and yet you still end up putting yourself in the same situation again anyway & also felt like 'IT' mirrors how some toxic dynamics work in real life, where insecurities get quietly used as a way to keep you attached, always chasing a kind of love it was never really capable of giving. i think that's what made it hit so hard for me, this game is just so well written and good, i related to it more than i expected and its weirdly comforting to know im not the only one who felt that way.
No words needed.
HOLY SHIT WHAT WAS THAT. I just expected another grinding for different routes, easter eggs and bugs, even got a little bored at about 25th unlocked ending. and then every step towards true ending everything started to feel....a little too familiar. Really well made and I loved it! ...altho I need a few minutes to sit with my thoughts.
Finished the entire thing... god damn that was beatiful. I felt bad at the end, while also feeling good. This was an actual masterpeace, you do truly know how to tell a complex story. And the twist too? i am speechless and i dont know how to cope. 10/10 game holy shit i need a drink
Fantastic game. I've finished the entire game, and every so often I go back and dare myself to see IT again.
we need more games like these
YESSSSS =D
if the dev doesnt make more games iama be sad
I REALLY want to take this cat home โฆ
but I shouldnโt โฆ
EDIT: I took the cat home again
good =3
what a great game
i hope for more of this game
Diabolical & Brilliant!
I personally love this game. I think i played it about more than an year ago when i fully completed it. I just got back into playing some other VN's and decided to come back to this gem. Played it again fully, all i can say is that its just amazing. <3
im glad to see that people are still playing this even though its almost 2 years old :3
what can we say we lovee the game
the game isnโt done downloading yet but Iโm saving it for my day off to play it like the description says
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Yall i took the cat home. Thatโs my CAT!! … this ainโt my cat
Just played the game and got really confused about what's happening behind all these routes, especially different voices appearing in the story...can anyone kindly offer their explanations/interpretations?
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hii did you finished all the endings? personally i think we played as a schizophrenic person. but it could also be that the cat is purely eldritch cosmic horror infiltrating our mind. some ending suggest other people is normal and we are the only weird one. it is supposed to be confusing so i wont read too much into it if i were you
I loved this so much that I played it all in one sitting! I love how the cat symbolizes a lot.