About Cat and Granny

Cat and Granny is a stealth game with an unusual objective: you are not trying to avoid being seen causing chaos, you are trying to be unseen while someone else is. Playing as an orange cat displaced by the new black cat Granny has brought home, you knock over lamps, plants and chandeliers — and the goal is to do it while your rival is nearby, so the blame lands on him.

That framing mechanic is what separates it from the destruction sandboxes it superficially resembles. In a pure chaos game, breaking things is the score. Here breaking things is only half of it: the same knocked-over pot is a success or a disaster depending entirely on who was standing next to it. It turns wrecking a room into a timing problem, which is a much more interesting one.

The lineage is easy to place — first-person house stealth on one side, and the mischievous-animal genre that Untitled Goose Game made famous on the other. It takes the hiding, the patrolling adult and the fear of being caught from the first, and the playful, low-consequence tone from the second. Hiding in boxes when Granny gets close is the safety valve that keeps the whole thing light rather than tense.

It sits under Adventure, Arcade and Action, which between them describe the three things it asks of you: exploring a house full of destructible objects, short repeatable attempts at setting up a prank, and the moment-to-moment business of moving and hiding before you are spotted. It is played entirely with the mouse, which keeps the focus on where you are and when you act rather than on execution.

Tips for Cat and Granny

• Never break something while you are alone with it. An unwitnessed mess still gets blamed on you — the whole point is that the black cat must be nearby when it happens.
• Follow your rival rather than the objects. He determines when a prank is worth setting up, so tracking him is more productive than scouting the room.
• Learn Granny's route before you touch anything. A first pass spent purely watching where she walks pays back over every attempt that follows.
• Use boxes early rather than as a last resort. Hiding before she is on top of you works reliably; hiding once she has already noticed you often does not.
• Set up high objects for later. Chandeliers and shelf items make the biggest mess, so save them for when the black cat is genuinely in position.
• If a plan falls apart, walk away rather than improvise. Breaking something in a panic is exactly how you get blamed, and the room will still be there in a minute.
• Explore between attempts. The house has more destructible objects than any single run needs, and knowing where they are is what lets you take an opportunity when it appears.

Did you know?

• The core mechanic is misdirection rather than destruction — the same knocked-over object scores or fails depending on whether the black cat is nearby when it falls.
• It is played in first person as the cat, which puts you at floor height and changes what you can see coming compared to a normal stealth camera.
• Hiding in boxes is the recovery mechanic, and it works far better used pre-emptively than as an escape once Granny has noticed you.
• The entire game runs on mouse input, with no keyboard controls, so difficulty comes from positioning and timing rather than execution.