Cat Mail Co.

Cozy game, glad you can continue after you are done with the game. I am also happy that they changed the sparkle effect to a beam of light when the packages had a buddie to go with.

OVERALL ★★★★★ (5/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ Cat Mail Co. is the game I expected it to be - simple, cute, and deceptively addictive. This is the game that you can spend hours on due to a satisfying gameplay loop, as proven by my 14 hours of play at review. The loop is simple: scan and stamp packages, sort them in appropriate locations, and identify incoming packages for customers. There is no time limit, there is no massive penalties. Just you and a bunch of packages that need to find their homes. It is the game you play while talking with friends. I can wholeheartedly endorse it, even with the cons it presents ☾ ˖°˖ PROS - Cute art style - Addictive Gameplay Loop - Stress Free - Co-op - Endless Game ☾ ˖°˖ CONS - No native controller support at current, though I know this is something they plan to add. - Sunny Shores & Tropical Dunes stamps too similar. I found myself very often confusing the two and think there needs to be better differentiation - Some grammatical errors within the pre-existing generation of the package requests. This is a nitpick. i.e. "This package is for my mom. My package is cube-shaped." - No cat customization within co-op - Corrupt packages are hard to notice, as they are a tiny purple swirl that fades in and out. - Similarity between heat and bright identifiers, another issue that caused me to mix up several times due to both using the sun symbol, as well as being next to one another. GRAPHICS ★★★★★ (5/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ There is a cohesive art style in the game that makes it fit well into the genre of cozy. It's not strenuous on the system or one's eyes. AUDIO ★★★★☆ (4/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ The audio cues at current are extremely cute and satisfying. The shadowy noises upon placing a package in the shadow room, the sizzle of placing a package in the heated room. The Revealuna sound is a bit obnoxious when you walk by if you forget to turn it off, and I wish there were more ambient tracks or variety in the day and night music. DIFFICULTY ★★☆☆☆ (2/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ On a basis, the game is insanely easy. I played much of it between bouts of consciousness on new medicine, so I would hardly say I was performing at top notch. However, there are some similarities in visuals used for sorting packages that up the difficulty, as mistakes seem prone to happening due to it. There is also the aspect of space management, and just juggling all the different rooms and locations by the time you have everything unlocked. All in all, though, it is an easy and relaxed game. STORY ★☆☆☆☆ (1/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ There is pretty much no true story. The game consists of sorting packages, and then going through piles to unearth new rooms, which culminates with you unearthing the final room, then the loop continues. There is room for a story, but that is not the point of this game and would require restructuring of some of the systems, so it is not something I would expect any time soon. GAME TIME ★★★★★ (5/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ This game is one of those endless games. The loop keeps you playing, and even when you finish the "story", you can continue playing as packages will always keep coming. This is a good mindless game, whether for relaxing, visual stimulation while listening to a podcast or audio book, keeping busy while talking with friends, or winding down for bed. PRICE ★★★★★ (5/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ This game is $15, and I finished the main story solo in about 10 hours. Another 4 was invested into a run with a friend, and I have plenty more to play. I always deem at most $1/hr a worthwhile price point, and the content of the game matches that for the endless play. BUGS ★★★★☆ (4/5) ☾ ˖°˖☆ ˖°˖☽ There aren't too many bugs. The only one I have personally faced is packages getting stuck in the package pile in multiplayer, which halts progression. Inspecting the pile closely will allow you to pull out the package, though, and progression resumes as intended.

This game isn't rushing you anywhere, you can simply sort packages and take customers at your own pace. Bonus points for everyone being cats. + story + simple pace + surprisingly good coop + simple achievements that basically fill as you progress -save only at the end of the shift -A few bugs, like packages suddenly jumping out of the boat destroyed, coop partner does not see some packages.. But thanks to the pace of this game, its very manageable. Overall, 8/10, fast, simple, cute. Glad i bought right on launch! :)

I think you will know if this game is for you pretty fast. If it is, you'll really like it. If it isn't, you'll probably think it's a little bare bones. It's for me, so I loved it. Almost no notes? The lack of time pressure is a feature, not a bug, and so is the chill atmosphere. My favorite part of the game is stamping things to make it look as pretty as possible. Figuring out a way to organize the boxes/letters in a satisfying way is another part of the game that is a big draw. If I did have a note that isn't a major spoiler, it would probably just be that I wish there was a way to favorite stamps for quicker selection, as well as a way to move/buy/upgrade shelves so that you could optimize even more. That said, this game is pretty much what I look for when I just want to load something up and relax.

I just clicked the fish on the wall the whole time....great game

While the game is cute and enjoyable at first, the lacking upgrades (more decorative stamps? why not a bigger boat to ship packages?) and repetitive speech by characters make it really boring after a while. That, and the controller support for this game is rather iffy, if not par-baked. Additionally, the naming system is confusing ("I'm here to pick up a package for my mom, my first name is William and it's cold" and then the game wants to to pick between three 'Samuel S' labelled packages in the fridge.) Overall, it's an ok game, but it's far from complete, and honestly needs a few quality of life patches to make it worth folk's while. I don't recommend it, however, as it become monotonous and annoyingly confusing after a while.

Um excelente jogo para relaxar e pra quem ama logística de organização. Um game cozy, sobre você ser um gato fofo, em meio a um mundo cheio de outros gatos também fofos, e você decidiu ser um carteiro dos correios do antigo carteiro que guarda segredos maliciosos (não zerei o game, então suponho que seu segredo seja que ele traiu a esposa pra ficar com uma encomenda. Isso sim exigiria esconder um segredo com um amontoado de 999 encomendas). O game não te força a resolver as coisas logo. Ele te dá todo o tempo do mundo para você jogar como desejar. Tbm te explica as noções básicas de sua profissão, mas não dá nenhuma sugestão de como organizar as caixas e envelopes que se acumulam no depósito... É aí que entra uma das partes mais divertidas do jogo no início (ao menos pra quem tem autismo e adora organizar as coisas) :D Minha sugestão é vocês desde cedo ja escolherem onde cada tipo de encomenda estará. Eu separei sob os seguintes critérios: destino, modificadores e formatos. Ex: perto da entrada daquela área onde atende os clientes, com uma estante de metal e duas de madeira ao lado, escolhi que fosse da Ilha dos Gatos. Na estante de metal, escolhi que ficasse encomendas pesadas, que a estante de madeira no fundo escolhi para as frágeis. O correios de vocês vai ficando cada vez mais bagunçado a medida que progride e libera novos destinos (não há salas o suficiente para a velocidade que essa bagunça cresce). Vocês vão ter que ir desenterrando novas salas soterradas por encomendas, para aí sim terem mais salas para tornarem elas salas de X destino. O game vai testar a cabeça de vcs quando houver decisões que parecem dificeis ou ilógicas na organização das caixas. Façam a melhor escolha. O que vale é funcionar pra vocês. Há! E existem duas escadas que vocês podem achar em meio ao depósito de vcs e usar pra alcançar o topo de estantes mais altas.