Alright, you’ve heard of games that mess with your mind, right? But this—this—is something else entirely. It’s called Archimedes' Cat and let me tell you, it’s a maddening stroke of genius that’ll have you purring with delight one moment and screaming into a pillow the next.
You play as a cat. But not just any cat. No, you’re a cat that can change its volume! And I don’t mean just meow louder or softer. No, this feline can literally get bigger or smaller depending on the situation. Sounds simple, right? WRONG. It’s a goddamn puzzle nightmare wrapped in a cute, furry package.
Imagine you’re cruising through a level, feeling all clever because you’ve just figured out how to get your cat to squeeze through some tiny gap. But then BAM! You’re too small to push the button on the other side. So you gotta backtrack, grow larger, but now you’re too big to even fit in the same damn gap you just crawled through. It’s like the developers sat around saying, “How can we mess with players today?”
But you know what? That’s what makes it freakin’ awesome. It’s like they took the concept of thinking outside the box and then threw the box out the window. This game forces you to rethink everything you know about puzzles.
The controls? They’re tight, which is good, because you’ll need every ounce of precision to navigate these levels. The art? Adorable as hell, which only makes it more frustrating when you’re stuck on a level and that cute little cat is just staring at you like, “Come on, genius, figure it out!”
I’m telling you, if you’re the kind of gamer who loves a challenge, this is the game for you. It’s like a Rubik’s Cube on crack—if the Rubik’s Cube were a cat that could change size at will and screw with your brain at every turn.
So yeah, Archimedes' Cat might just drive you up the wall, but in the end, when you finally crack that puzzle that’s been taunting you for hours, you’ll feel like a goddamn genius. And isn’t that what gaming is all about?