With an eShop full of so much variety, I personally believe that it’s important to be sure that there’s a lane for titles of just about any type to be successful. While somewhere in the 8s it may be important to start looking at games from a more mainstream appeal perspective, up to that point I think more niche titles and those focused first on making genre fans happy should be given room to breathe. Given the ever-growing popularity of so-called “cozy” titles I think it’s particularly important to be sure fans of this style of gaming are given their due, opening the potential for even more laid back and simple titles to get fair and thoughtful scoring.

All that said, given the substantial roster of titles with this flavor coming from about every angle, whether in the form of sims, puzzle games, or other more casual-friendly fare, there’s still a fair bar that everyone will need to clear to make a positive impression. A Tower Full of Cats is decidedly simple in its ambitions and approach, essentially serving up a pretty impressive amount of hand-drawn locales, but the hook is that there are cats hidden pretty well everywhere, and you need to find them. You’ll quickly learn that they can be tricky to spot, sometimes really just consisting of a small set of eyes and a mouth in the background, but it’s a good test for how thorough you can be. 

Additional challenges to find some nuts and bolts help to add a little variety to what you’re looking for, but there’s admittedly not much to the whole affair either. You’ll simply scroll through some large scenes, trying to find every cat you can, and highlighting them. Unlike some competitors it doesn’t penalize you for incorrect guesses, and that’s important since some are hidden from view, and will need where they’re hiding activated in some way. While sometimes this can feel like a cheat, and perhaps a little cheap in some cases, it does at least provide a little added depth to what can otherwise be an accessible but somewhat one-dimensional affair.