Cats in the Forbidden City

Hidden-object cat hunting inside a Qing Dynasty court painting

Catnip Studio · Released Sep 12, 2024

Reviews: Very Positive; 100% of 58
Recent reviews: Not enough recent
Players: 0; daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
Steam Deck: Untested
Last update on Steam: 2 years ago; Sep 12, 2024
Minimum PC: Videocard with at least 5…; 4 GB RAM · 0.6 GB disk; Full requirements

What is Cats in the Forbidden City?

This single-player, point-and-click hidden-object game places 200 cats inside “Wànguó Lái Cháo Tú,” a painting of foreign delegations awaiting an audience with Emperor Qianlong. You scan the palace scene and click cats as you find them, with a hint available once every 60 seconds.

For you if...

+you enjoy calm puzzles focused on spotting hidden details

Not for you if...

−you want action or objectives beyond finding hidden objects

What players say

100% of 58 reviews are positive

Players praise the historical artwork, how the cats blend into the scene, and the relaxing music. Several describe the game as very short.

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Cats in the Forbidden City system requirements

Minimum: Videocard with at least 5…, 4 GB RAM, 0.6 GB of disk space.

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Minimum

OS: Windows 10
Processor: 4.0 GHz Dual Core
Graphics: Videocard with at least 512MB
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 600 MB available space

Does Cats in the Forbidden City have co-op or multiplayer?

No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.

Single-player

Does Cats in the Forbidden City run on Steam Deck?

Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.

PC version details

DRM: None declared on Steam
Controller: Keyboard and mouse
Platforms: Windows
Achievements: 100
Steam features: Family Sharing
Languages: Text only: 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 in the Forbidden City 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 28, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam