RPG Maker strikes again!
Existential Kitty Cat RPG is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction.
As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development.
Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers.
It seems like the "developer" here is a serial offender and has dumped over a dozen of these phoned in RPG Maker asset flips, minimal effort stuff, with lazy map designs, bad encounter designs, basically everything done with RPG Maker assets and stock character image creators, and completely terrible, elementary schoolchild tier writing. This is no exception, as the developer claims it's a ripoff of Jim Davis's famous Garfield character, but has nothing to do with it. It's full of peurile pre-pubsescent schoolyard humour, the type children get up to when they realise there's no adults around to punish them for being vile. It makes one wonder about the mental state of the "developer" of this garbage, but then you see just how much trash they've dumped on Steam, it just makes things worse.
Toying around with RPG Maker for about 3 hours doesn't make someone a real game developer, and I question how it's good for gamers to permit so many of these RPG Maker asset flips onto Steam when they have no real value as a video game. It's worth pointing out if you really do want to play RPG Maker garbage, there's literally hundreds of completely free RPG Maker asset flips on Steam, all better than this paid product.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 5 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
Existential Kitty Cat RPG is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
