Cattails is an animal simulation game where you get to play as a cat surviving out in the wild in a colony. You as a cat get the chance to choose which colony of three you want to join: Forest Colony, Mountain Domain, and Mystic Colony. Each of these colonies in this game have their own territory in this world and each day, you have the opportunity to participate in two battles for your colony to claim/protect land that’s close to your colonies territory. If you win those battles, your colony’s percentage of ownership increases, and you have the potential to have that piece of land turned into a part of your territory that you must also protect.

Screenshot of the world map I took while playing Cattails.

I recently started playing this game because I wanted to play something more relaxing. I had gotten this game on Steam a while back but hadn’t gotten too far into it at the time. But decided I was going to put some hours into playing it again to see what it was like. And so far, I’ve been really enjoying Cattails.

Along with choosing a colony to join and fighting to claim territory, there’s a lot more to this game than that. You as a cat can also hunt for food and collect items that help keep your hunger and health meters up, so you don’t die. There’s also different skills you can level up and learn throughout to help your cat become stronger too as you gain experience points throughout the days in the game.

You can also in Cattails work on your relationships with the other cats in your colony. And from the number of hours I’ve put into this game so far, it looks like you can build relationships with the other colonies as well, though I’m not completely sure yet what happens once you’ve gotten those relationships up to a certain percent. My guess is that once you get your relationship with a colony to a certain percent, you’ll then be able to go into the colony’s headquarters and interact with the cats in that colony.

What I’ve enjoyed about playing Cattails so far is all of the areas you can explore, the variety of animals you can hunt and herbs you can collect to keep your health up, and just being able to play as a cat. There’s just a lot with this game you can do besides the things I’ve already mentioned that I can get into. For example, there’s a task board in your colony’s town where you can go to see what daily task needs to be completed and complete it and get Task Points that you can then spend at the board to buy items. There’s also two mines in the game that you can also explore where you can dig up resources that you can then trade in for Mole Cash, like the Task Points you can spend at the Mole Shop to buy items.

There’s just a lot with this game that I’ve really enjoyed during the time I’ve been playing it so far. And what I like the most about it is that I feel like I’m able to relax when I’m playing this game. I feel like that’s because once you get accustomed to the controls and get better at hunting, everything else comes naturally to me with it when it comes to playing a video game where you play as a cat. I also feel like the music in the game helps too because it creates a peaceful atmosphere during gameplay that makes this game much more enjoyable for me to play.

So overall, my impression of Cattails from what I’ve played so far is that I really enjoy it. It’s the perfect game to play whenever I want to relax or play a video game that isn’t very heavy on storytelling. Can’t wait to continue playing this game as I’ve enjoyed every minute of it and recommend it to anyone else who loves cats just as much as I do. Especially if you’re a gamer who enjoys playing life simulation games such as Stardew Valley as I feel like Cattails shares a lot of similarities to it.