Charming cat puzzler Nekograms pounces onto Nintendo Switch this October – Destructoid
Developer Hungry Sky has announced that its cute cat puzzle game Nekograms will be released on October 3, 2024, for Nintendo Switch at a price of $7.49. The game tasks you with ensuring every cat is nice and comfy on its own cushion, which is harder than you think.
Hungry Sky is a game developer based in Western Australia and is incredibly excited about releasing Nekograms, its very first game, on Nintendo Switch later this year. It’s just like all those cozy games you’ve tried out on Steam, but somehow even more chilled out. The game is already available on mobile devices, but it’s been enhanced for the handheld console to allow for even more replayability and a completely different experience in some cases. In addition to an endless mode, players can opt to use a new widescreen format to extend puzzles far beyond their complexities in standard levels.
Never stop making cats comfortable
Nekograms features 120 hand-crafted levels with increasingly difficult combinations of cats and cushions. As you can see in the trailer, it’s similar to a sliding tiles puzzle in that you must move the cushions around a grid, avoiding obstacles along the way until every cat has a cushion underneath it.
Endless mode, as you’d expect from the name, pits you against level after level until you fail, with no end in sight. This mode is enhanced on the Nintendo Switch with a widescreen format to allow for much larger puzzles than the mobile version could ever host. But you don’t get this from the start; you’ll need to unlock it by working through every level in the game and satisfying each cat you encounter.
Along your journey with Nekograms, you’ll meet more than 15 different breeds of cat and find more than a few that are wearing some pretty ridiculous accessories. Bread Face is one of my favorites, but the Watermelon Hat is probably the best one I’ve seen because it feels like something a cat would force itself into wearing and keep on its head out of spite. Even if it didn’t like it.
The Nintendo Switch version features controller, Joy-Con, handheld, and docked support, so you can play however you want. You can also skip levels and come back to them later and enjoy a relaxed puzzle experience with no timers or fail states, other than you giving up to speak of.
With three unique worlds and an original soundtrack designed to make Nekograms the ultimate cat-puzzling relaxing experience, there’s a lot to love about the game. If you’ve been waiting for the perfect combination of challenging puzzles and comfortable cats, then check the game out on the Nintendo eShop later this year.
