Pawsky

Genre: Misc.

Players: 1

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Review:

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Pawsky, released in 2025 on PC and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2026, is a family-friendly game that you could technically call a Visual Novel, but there’s so little text and so little story here that the genre doesn’t seem like the best fit. This game has you following a round cat (presumably the titular Pawsky) and choosing multiple-choice answers for how it will go about its day.

The characters and scenery in this game all make use of extremely simple 3D constructed from basic shapes, and while it does have a charm of sorts to it, like an early pre-Toy Story Pixar short film, it’s not much to write home about. Tack on a simple upbeat but repetitive song to back the game, and that’s pretty much it.

Here’s the thing though… Pawsky is over in 2-3 minutes. You have maybe a half-dozen choices, after which an animation will play showing your choice play out, or maybe you’ll have a “minigame” where you select when to stop a moving cursor. None of the choices seem to have any major impact on the story, and it’s not an especially interesting story anyway.

Overall, Pawsky just seems pointless. It’s cute for the few minutes before it’s over, but not cute enough to justify existing, or for that matter to justify even the low $2 price tag. This is a big nothing of a game, and you shouldn’t buy it.

tl;dr – Pawsky is a short game where you select a few multiple-choice answers to questions about what a round cat will do during its day. None of your choices seems to matter all that much, the story doesn’t have any sort of impact, and it’s over within a few minutes. There’s not really any game here, and you definitely shouldn’t be paying for this non-game.

Grade: F

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