Hidden Kittens: Kingdom of Cats

Genre: Puzzle

Players: 1

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Review:

(Note: Review code provided by the kind folks at Silesia Games)

Hidden Kittens is a family-friendly hidden object-style Puzzle game released on PC in 2024 and ported to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch in 2025. As the title indicates, this game has players looking for cats hidden in a monochrome scene with a medieval fantasy theme.

The presentation here makes use of cute, cartoony 2D line art with minimal animation such as rotating windmills. This is backed by thematically-fitting “Renn faire”-style music, and joined by meowing sounds every time you uncover a cat. These sounds get annoying pretty quickly, but thankfully you can change the sound settings so you don’t have to keep listening to it.

Actually, speaking of settings, you can also individually change the colors of different elements, such as the color of cats you’ve already discovered, which is a nice touch I wish more games like this offered. I also have to commend this game on offering some good touch controls in handheld mode including pinch-zoom, as well as decent gamepad controls using an on-screen cursor. No matter which way I chose to play this game, the controls worked well without issue.

When it comes to the gameplay itself, this is a pretty standard hidden object game. The cats you’re looking for can be partly-obscured, in the scene itself or in a picture in the background. Despite this, they’re not particularly difficult to find. Reaching certain thresholds of number of cats found unlocks doors within the scene that take you additional scenes to find more cats before exiting back out again.

There was one thing I found frustrating in the gameplay, and that is that some elements of the scene can be interacted with, but the game doesn’t indicate in any way that you can do this, meaning that players could be missing cats that they have no way of knowing they need to interact with objects to reveal.

I’m also not a fan of this game’s hint system, which can be used at any time to bring up a circular area to highlight a cat you haven’t located yet. My issue is that this circular area is far too small, and basically gives away the location of the cat completely, making this less of a “hint” and more of a “just find one of the cats for me”.

I suppose I should mention another potential complaint here, and that is that with only about 350 cats to find overall, this game can easily be completed within an hour, or even less if you’re good at spotting hidden objects. However, with Hidden Kittens only costing $3, the length seems about right for the price.

Overall, I think fans of hidden object-style Puzzle games are likely to enjoy Hidden Kittens, and it even has some nice features that are uncommon for this style of game, but there’s nothing truly revolutionary or transformative here. If you’re a fan of hidden object games, I think this will satisfy you, even if only for an hour or so… but if this sort of game doesn’t appeal to you, I don’t think Hidden Kittens is likely to change your mind.

tl;dr – Hidden Kittens is a family-friendly hidden object-style Puzzle game where players try to uncover the 350+ hidden kittens within a medieval fantasy setting. There are some nice features here that overall make this a good take on this style of Puzzle game, but there’s nothing really exemplary or transformative that’s going to make this appeal to anyone who isn’t already looking for a hidden object game. But if you do like this sort of game, I think you’ll be pleased with what’s here.

Grade: C+

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