Cat Mail Co. is a cosy game where you run a post office for cats, and I wish it let me snoop into their private lives

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Cat Mail Co. is a cosy game where you run a post office for cats, and I wish it let me snoop into their private lives

Rock Paper Shotgun · 3 months ago

Rock Paper Shotgun previews Cat Mail Co., a cosy first-person game from Gamersky Games and Maracas Studio in which the player takes over a run-down post office serving a clientele of cats. The writer, drawn to the game by a self-professed nosiness about other people's parcels, enjoys the demo's gentle sorting and organising loops but laments that it offers few chances to pry into the secret lives of its feline customers.

In the game you inherit the business from a retiring postmaster who has left packages piled up in disarray, and you serve cats who arrive at a front-desk bell to either collect or drop off mail. Collections rely on vague clues such as a parcel being "tied with a red ribbon" or bearing a clover sticker, while drop-offs require stamping the correct destination, weighing the parcel, applying the right number of stamps, and using an X-ray machine to add fragile or heavy stickers; each shift ends by loading a boat with parcels bound for the cat captain's next port. The writer wishes the cats revealed more about themselves and that the X-ray let players glimpse the contents, and, lacking that, says they will keep inventing back stories for the cats they serve.

  • Cat Mail Co. is a cosy game about running a cats-only post office.
  • You sort, weigh, stamp and X-ray parcels, then load them onto a boat.
  • The reviewer enjoyed it but wanted more snooping into the cats' lives.

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