Cats of the Ming Dynasty
A hidden-object cat hunt inside a historical Chinese ink painting
Catnip studio · Released Mar 11, 2024
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 98% of 189
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update on Steam
- 2 years ago
- Sep 12, 2024
What is Cats of the Ming Dynasty?
This 2D hidden-object game uses six scenes from Qiu Ying's Along the River During the Qingming Festival, depicting Ming-era Suzhou. You search for and click on 600 hand-drawn cats, with hints pointing to undiscovered cats every 60 seconds.
For you if...
- +you enjoy relaxed games built around close observation
Not for you if...
- −you want cooperative play or competition against other players
What players say
98% of 189 reviews are positive
Players praise the detailed artwork and background music. Some find the search too easy.
Screenshots and trailer
Cats of the Ming Dynasty system requirements
Minimum: Videocard with at least 5…, 8 GB RAM, 4 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Cats of the Ming Dynasty?
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- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- 4.0 GHz Dual Core
- Graphics
- Videocard with at least 512MB
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Does Cats of the Ming Dynasty have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Cats of the Ming Dynasty run on Steam Deck?
Playable Playable: it runs on Steam Deck with some adjustments.
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 100
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Danish, Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Turkish, Greek, Norwegian, Czech, Japanese, Polish, Thai, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Romanian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Spanish - Latin America, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, Uzbek, Urdu, Armenian, Igbo, Sindhi, Sinhala, Croatian, Icelandic, Cherokee, Galician, Catalan, Afrikaans, Kannada, Luxembourgish, Hindi, Gujarati, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Turkmen, K'iche', Kinyarwanda, Tajik, Serbian, Odia, Welsh, Konkani, Bangla, Nepali, Basque, Hebrew, Latvian, Tigrinya, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Georgian, Maori, Wolof, Bosnian, Persian, Telugu, Tamil, Irish, Estonian, Valencian, Belarusian, Quechua, Zulu, Xhosa, Lithuanian, Sotho, Sorani, Yoruba, Uyghur, Scots, Tswana, Filipino, Mongolian, Hausa, Dari, Azerbaijani, Amharic, Albanian, Assamese, Tatar, Macedonian, Marathi, Malayalam, Malay, Maltese, Khmer.
Does Cats of the Ming Dynasty use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
