For those that don’t know, I have a massive soft spot for retro-inspired games on all formats. Heck, I’m even attending a retro convention this very weekend, but this post isn’t about me (it never is), instead it’s about the very charming looking Pix the Cat. It’s like the developers took the two biggest things online (retro games, cats) and merged them into a delightful looking arcade style game.
Developed by the French studio Pastagames, who created the excellent Rayman Jungle Run among many others, Pix the Cat features many different game modes including single and multiplayer modes, some changing the theme and aesthetic. Including Arcade, Nostalgia, Laboratory, and Arena modes, you’ll play as Pix – who plays a Pix – heading deeper and deeper into levels upon levels in a Snake-meets-Pac-Man digital world.
Enjoy a kinetic and stylized world within games where, in the arcade mode, your task is liberate ducklings and trail them to the safe-zones without hitting the walls, getting stuck, or running into your feathered friends, gaining the highest score possible and comparing them on the leaderboards. Completing “achievements” opens up new game modes and unlocks fantastic artwork, hilarious announcer voices and your favorite tunes from the game’s soundtrack! Among other surprising surprises…
Finally, Arena mode pits you against 3 friends in local multiplayer! With two players facing off on the same keyboard, connect additional controllers and blow your enemies to smithereens in epic battles of cats, ducks and eggs.
Pix the Cat will be available for download for PC on Steam at the end of January.
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