'City Litter' is a single player RPG where you play as a stray mother cat, on a search for her missing litter of kittens through the streets of a sprawling city metropolis.
You were out foraging for food when the city pound invaded your litter of kittens and took them away. As an animal there is still the scent from their captors, so without any time to waste, you must travel beyond your stomping ground in order to bring them home.
Players plays this game from a third person view, and see our world from the height of an animal. Controls come from the familiar format used for RPG games using game controllers (such as GTA V). Player characters interact with environments that intuitively recognizable for cats – climbing ledges, sneaking up on prey for food.
There are many predators – animal and human that you must avoid.
Unique to this game, is the absence of any dialogue. Although the player interacts with the world and other NPCs, information is communicated largely through visual cues (highlighting and pointing markers to places of significance).
'Scent', a core mechanic in the game, is represented in-game with the use of colour. This is something that is taught early in the game, and is a dynamic players get accustomed to very quickly.
Examples of this, would be different overlaid shades of green to indicate nearby food sources, and shades of red which get brighter to signal nearby or approaching predators.
There are side missions to accompany and deepen the main narrative. Completing side missions give you points that can be spent on a skill tree where to acquire skills to make you more agile, stronger, and stealthier. For instance:
The approach to the feel of 'City Litter' is comparable to Wall-E, players build a connected and personify a non-human character.
Platform: Gaming consoles – Microsoft Xbox One, Play Station 4
Target Audience: Mature audiences ages 13 years and older.
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