Matt's Hidden Cats Demo
A downloadable game for Windows and Android
Go on a scavenger-hunt adventure that spans 80 hand-crafted levels, including beautiful holiday destinations and fantasy themes.
Move objects, look in buildings, detonate bombs, unlock treasure chests, dig for secrets, and more! Every item is clickable as you search for hidden cats and weird objects!
This demo includes the first 10 levels of the game!
If you're having performance issues, try using one of the .bat scripts to launch the game in a different render mode.
(The full game will release in Early 2026)
Matt's Hidden Cats features...
- Thousands of items to find, and 20+ hours of gameplay.
- 3 difficulty modes, with different goals in each, allowing for multiple playthroughs.
- Spot-the-difference challenges, and other secret game modes.
- Diverse areas including ancient Egypt, volcanic islands, European forests and castles, arctic tundra, fantasy jungles, and many more.
- Occasional dark humour. (which can be disabled for a family-friendly experience)
- 100% DRM-free, so you can make a copy for your grandma!
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Good game. I brought the last option in filter and when i chose the filter it turned the whole screen grey and I can't do anything.
Yeah, the filters don't work quite right on mobile. You can still interact with stuff, so you'll have to find your way back to that menu to change it to something else.
very cute. I love game that give me almost endless things to interact with and different varieties to customize and replay. One thing is while I play I don't actually look at the list of things I need to find. I just click everything.. idk if this is what u had in mind but i had a lot of fun!
Hope everyone is enjoying the mobile port!
Suggestions:
since u planning on making friendship level here is some suggestions.
1. If u make 1 out 4 of them mad or upset whatever that call, they will force u to run a certain amount of hard map based on thier negative friendship level
2. Make all of them mad then they'll force u to play a special map
3. Make thier friendship level to a certain amount of number then they'll give u access to play their map
Vouching this!
Love this, it's great as usual!
I would just like: more blood and more poke reactions. Maybe both at the same time :D
Lovely demo :D
Managed to get all collectibles^^
I just found a few small bugs while doing so:
In Level 1-7, inside the level the gem counter shows a max of 26, which is wrong, since there are only 25 gems.
In Level 2-2 easy mode the green bed in the right image is layered above the bottles left of it.
Keep up the good work :D
Thanks!
Will fix.
Great demo with amazing vibes, had a lot of fun playing with my partner! Really looking forward to the full release.
Small Suggestion: An option for a regular black cat mascot? We weren't able to find one in the shop even after spending most of the money available in the demo
Maybe!
The mascots need to be unique enough to stand out from the regular cats though...
That makes perfect sense! My partner has a black cat and wanted a little familiar in-game to match, so I thought I'd mention it :^) Perhaps a witch hat would be enough to make it unique?
Suggestion: when asked to give 'your name', if we put in 'your name' have it use a unique name of something derisive or snarky. (Smart Ass, Oh So Clever and so on)
Cool game. I enjoyed shooting everything I could :)
I like the game just as how user LordArugula describe it. I love how i can chomp on or eat some food of the food, am just abit sad that i cant eat all them pussy.
over 17000 objects clicked!
The art style is very charming with the toon style, bold outlines, and cute animals. Some things are a little creepy though :). I enjoyed clicking on all of the animals and objects and seeing the little animations and hearing their sounds. Will never not laugh at birds (accidentally) flung off of trees.
The level design is cool. They don’t feel same-y or just randomly placed. Each one is feels fun and hand-made and some have interesting interactions. Although I wish there were a few more secret/special object interactions, especially involving multiple objects. The larger levels are a little intimidating though because of how big they are.
I like that you’re not punished for clicking everything everywhere all at once or using hints. You are actually encouraged to interact with objects!! The hint system is also very useful with three different levels of how much information it can give you.
Glad you liked it!
There's only a few levels bigger than what's in the demo - most levels are around the size of level 4 and 5.
No idea why but I can't download this via the itch app. Is the platform not set for the download?
I'm not familiar with the Itch app. It's just a .zip file for Windows.
Spent a few hours going through hard mode without any hints. Full cleared only the first 4 levels lol. The full game is definitely going to take a while.
One issue I came across is the game would randomly crash after playing for a while.
which graphics quality setting and render mode were you playing on? I think I probably made the default settings too demanding on the GPU.
I played on the default graphic settings yeah. It's windowed, high quality and every box ticked except ultrawide. The game runs smoothly on my computer, the frame only drops when I zoom out too much. I crashed once when I was playing the first level, and a couple times on the 3rd.
If it helps, here are my specs:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS with Radeon Graphics (3.30 GHz)
16 GB RAM
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
I clicked on a cat and it exploded. I am happy I got to kill them, thank you.
Game keeps crashing when I try to do this now. I think they're onto me.
what graphics quality setting are you using? does it still crash if you switch to Low?
Did not see this before, sorry! I changed my graphics settings but unfortunately, same thing, after clicking enough times in total the game just.. crashes, I'm really confused on why it does this. I can say for sure it has to do with clicking because if I sit idle or don't spam click on everything it does not crash.
I can't wait for a full-blown boss battle with boss music, QTEs, and explosions in this game!
can't believe you're still making games! keep it up bud!
Might be peak
Any potential for a Mac version?
It's possible!
I just haven't tested it on a Mac yet... but I could try that out soon-ish.
Wooohooo! As a Mac user, I'd be thrilled!
I need a mobile version fr fr
Had a strange bug where the cursor was off sync with my mouse. It was likely lag but turning it off made it feel just fine
Cool game :D
I’ve always been into your games. Keep up the good work!
I am not sleeping this weekend
👀 I'll definitely be playing this tomorrow (if it works on my 10+ year old computer 😅)
Third level is bugged. The camera just won't stop going down and I have no idea what's causing this. That alone prevented me from going further in the game.
Awesome
Hi ShyGuyMask :D
Huge lag on my side, the game's mouse cursor has a hard time keeping up with my mouse. It's probably due to the game somehow taking a lot out of my PC, even though I don't think it should.
What are your system specs?
We'll try fiddling with some settings...
Device name: Windows11
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (2.81 GHz)
Installed RAM: 12.0 GB
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch: None
Edition: Windows 11 Home
Version: 25H2
Installed on: 2024-11-11
OS build: 26200.7019
Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.265.0
Manufacturer: Acer
Is this a laptop, running on integrated graphics? I have a laptop somewhere with a similar configuration, I could try it out later to see if I see the same problem
Not a laptop, it’s a tower. At least I think that’s what it’s called.
Hello, person who maintains the slightly modifed Ruffle build used in the game here.
Could you try running the game with the parameters
and report back? I'm in the EBF Discord if you need help doing that.
Was this a reply to my comment or Matts?
And if it's a reply to mine, what are those and how am I supposed to run these parameters?
I think you'll need to run the Matt's Hidden Cats.exe using the command line, with those added at the end.
We're gonna try to figure out an easier way to do it.
I don’t know what a command line is. How should I use it?
Wait a bit, we are gonna push an update who makes OpenGL the default, should improve perfs a lot
I had this issue as well initially, but after playing for a while, the cursor stopped lagging.
Dear Matt, we believe in you
Hello world
Yo man, it's been awhile! How're you doing?