I’ve carried a lot recently. Quietly, in the way you do when you’re the person everyone leans on. And the thing I wanted most, more than rest, more than a holiday, was to be something small and unbothered for an evening. A cat, ideally.
Little Kitty, Big City understood the assignment.
What it is
You are a small cat who has fallen from a window and needs to get home. Along the way you knock things off shelves, collect hats, nap in sunbeams, and get distracted by pigeons. Nothing needs you. Nothing is waiting. There’s a story, technically, but the real game is wandering around being a cat with zero responsibilities.
Available on PC, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox. Also on Xbox Game Pass.
Why it helps when you’re running on empty
Zero pressure. Zero stakes. The whole game is warm, gently funny, and structurally asks nothing of you. No fail states. No urgency. You are purely a cat. And something about that, about being a creature that exists entirely for itself, is more restorative than it has any right to be.
For anyone who needs to put down the weight for an evening. Be a cat. It helps more than you’d think.
