What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Fit My Cat (Switch)

March 26th, 2025

I felt really burned out last night, so I didn't really want to play anything. I played a few levels of Fit My Cat to try to relax before bed, though. One of them had too many cats to fit, so I quit for the night because I didn't want to deal with it.

March 20th, 2025

There's still an hour left in Thursday, but I've got Friday style burnout already. I wish I knew why these past couple weeks were challenging me so hard! Last night, though, I was able to relax with a very half-asleep play session in Fit My Cat. The difficulty outpaced my ability to think after just a few levels, but that's okay. I am thankful for super casual games.

February 8th, 2025

I've been having a very laid back day, which is really nice after the week I had! I'm gonna go buy a sub for dinner and, hopefully, play some unlocalized Switch games tonight. It's nice stuff to look forward to.

My nervousness was sky high last night, so my gaming was pretty low key. While I exercised, I played a little bit of a very basic hidden object game called Tiny Treasure Hunt. MASK, who is listed as the publisher for this on the Switch eShop, hasn't ever really blown me away gameplay-wise, but their games are really cute and charming! They take less than an hour to beat and lack challenge, but they have lovely pastels and good vibes. That's all I want sometimes. Anyway, I played 15 out of 20 of stages of this last night, and plan to clear it tonight. It'll be nice!

I kept on with Fit My Cat, too, but hit some levels with missing cats! For the first of them, I saw that a puzzle would be unsolvable without any single square cats, which are featured at the margins of the blurry screenshot below, but none were on the board! I, being reasonable and cool-headed, looked up a solution online to make sure I wasn't just being dumb, and I was not- the solutions online showed those single square cats. At that point, I thought my cat sorting quest had been brought to an early end, so I matched my own cats to the diagram, sure it would just stop forever once I failed to place the last two tiny cats. On Switch, though, it just called the puzzle finished with those two squares left empty!

It's fine, and I'm glad the game works, but also I hate it because it feels dumb to me that those single square cats are just missing! It makes the puzzles feel unfinished, and it happened again over the next few levels, too. I know this is what I get for buying Switch cheapies, but obviously, there's a version of this that works properly somewhere. I demand a patch!

Anyway, that's all for me tonight. I have run out of rage at my cat sorting game and am ready to get on with my evening. Have a good weekend out there, everyone!

February 7th, 2025

I'm posting through my weekly Friday night crash, though I'm even sleepier than usual tonight! Be careful of norovirus, guys, it's no joke!

Last night, I got back to my exercise bike, and tried Stray Cat Doors on my Switch as I pedaled. It's a bad game for fitness time, since I had to take a few notes and think through more than I'd expected, but I like it so far overall. It's very quiet and dreamlike, and the puzzles were decent, too. Some of them took me a few minutes, but I still got an "ah-ha!" moment out of a lot of them without using hints. I'm looking forward to playing the second half of this soon.

Way later, I played Fit My Cat for a few rounds. I'd been a little stuck on a puzzle, and it took me a bit to get it figured out last night, too. After that one, though, the other puzzles I did were pretty breezy. It was either a weird mental block on my part or uneven difficulty on the game's.

January 25th, 2025

Today it was sunny and the weather got above freezing, so I felt a bit better than I have been! I went to see The Colors Within, because I am a sucker for "kids in a band" anime, which was very charming and also helped. It is nice to be in an okay mood.

Last night, with coworker encouragement, I got my last few runs knocked out in Sweet Survivors, so I can play something else. It is strange, because I'm still itching to play Survivors-like style games, but I got tired of this one specifically towards the end. As little as I spent on it (about 4.75 with all the DLC) I'm impressed with how much playtime I got out of it, and can see revisiting it in the future. For now, though, I shall bid the baristas farewell.

I played some more of Fit My Cat, too. It's just a sorting puzzle, though, so I don't have much exciting to say about it. I do like it, and of course the pastel cat theming is good, but it would be fine with any theme.

January 22nd, 2025

Winter is bringin' me down this year, and I am suffering a severe lack of energy and enthusiasm.

Last night, I ended up trying cat games from my backlog. My first one was Skateboard Drifting With Maxwell Cat: The Game Simulator, a meme-y game about steering a skateboard towards arrows. I was so tired yesterday that I couldn't play this and pedal my exercise bike at the same time, so I don't feel like I can really judge it from last night's session. It wanted me to be connected to the internet as I loaded levels, though, so I think it was an online game no one else plays. It was a strange experience.

I tried Fit My Cat, too, which was a laid back puzzle game where you fit cats into boxes. It's not complicated, but it's cute. The difficulty scaled well as I played, too.

I want to get back to my shmup quest tonight, but I also want to sleep for 15 hours, so I will see what wins out.