Doctor Cat is a simple puzzle game that addresses mental health issues that affect us every day.
Advance games is a small video game studio based in Brazil that was founded in 2023. In its short history, the studio has several titles under its belt like Finger Football: Goal in one, Golf: Hole in onePuzzlerio and of course the title that concerns us today, Doctor Cat.
Doctor Cat is a simple puzzle game with a very serious theme. The game introduces us to Doctor Gato, a psychologist who treats patients with real, everyday problems that are about to exceed the limit of the bearable limit. All types of animals (dogs and cats) will go through our consultation with different daily life problems, work stress, toxic relationships, empty lives, lack of goals and motivations, and a good list of things that we will reveal while we solve the puzzles.
Doctor CaIt does not aim to solve anyone’s life, but rather to listen and empathize with the patient to make them understand that what they are feeling is normal. Validating your emotions and identifying them will be the only possible way out of a problem like mental health. This, along with the life story, constitute the two main healing tools. As we solve the riddles, our patients will open up and share more of their emotions and thoughts. The puzzle is different in each situation and is a graphic representation of what the patient feels in some of the situations he tells us about.
It’s true that Doctor Cat It’s not a big game, the mechanics are still the same. The puzzle has two difficulty levels which simply increase the number of pieces we need to have. Additionally, the edges are marked for easy placement. For its part, the music that accompanies us does not vary much, becoming excessively monotonous. Furthermore, the only possible scenario is consulting the doctor. This, coupled with the lack of animations, makes the title look rather poor in general terms.
CONCLUSION
Doctor Cat It will not remain in the history of video games for its playability, nor for its technical part. Both are quite flat and poor. The game’s mechanics alone end up becoming boring over time and the soundtrack doesn’t accompany you at all. The game has no incentive to play it. However, the approach to normalizing everyday situations that can alter our mental health and well-being is appreciated. In a world that stigmatizes there mental illnessA game that takes it out of the ordinary is appreciated and for that reason alone, you might try this title.
Doctor Cat
$4.99
Benefits
- Deep and necessary theme
The inconvenients
- Too simple
- Low difficulty
- Only one mechanic available
- Simplistic sound and visual section
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