Catmaze

Catmaze is a fairy metroidvania inspired by Slavic myths. Age-old tales will come to life in the unforgettable adventure of Alesta, a sorceress whose courage guides her through mysterious paths and dark forests in search of the lost road to Nav, the world of the dead.

Catmaze is a side scroller, exploration and metroidvania game developed and published by Redblack Spade.
Released on May 24th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.

It has received 535 reviews of which 454 were positive and 81 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Catmaze into these genres:

Side Scroller Exploration Metroidvania Platformer Action RPG Action-Adventure Female Protagonist Character Action Game RPG 2D Cute Lore-Rich Story Rich Open World Action Anime Pixel Graphics Fantasy Adventure Old School

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Dual Core 2.4 Ghz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Storage: 350 MB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS 10.7+
Processor: 2 GHz dual core
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Hardware Accelerated Graphics with dedicated memory
Storage: 350 MB available space

Linux

OS: Steam OS 2.0 / Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit)
Processor: 2 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1-compatible, 512 MB video memory, framebuffer object support. E.g. Intel HD 4600 or better.
Storage: 350 MB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Jan. 2025

It took me a long time to get around to playing this one, and I'm glad I went back to revisit it after all this time. What a nice time I had with this game. Just a really enjoyable experience, especially considering it was just one developer. Not sure if you read reviews after all these years, but thank you for putting this out there. I've been gaming since 1993, so I've played many games like this, and it was very nostalgic.

Sept. 2024

Fun little metroidvania, quite silly and charming. Worth a buy but don't expect too much replayability, took me 10h to ace the thing, last boss was a b&tch to go though.

July 2024

Such a fun game. Nothing terribly difficult, but such an amazing experience. Also, really enjoyed the story... all the "enemies" end up being totally relatable by end game. Although it shows only 4 hours of gameplay, I do have an additional 8 hours of gameplay via Steam Deck that somehow did not get logged (possibly because I was traveling and in "OFFLINE" mode). I'm nearing what feels like the end of the game and feels like I have less than 3 hours of pure gameplay left... making this an extremely enjoyable 15ish hour casual difficulty Metroidvania-esque action platformer. Although I have an amazing experience with this game, it's not without it's quarks. There are many times when there can be sprite overload and audio/framerate tends to get sacrificed. Nothing game breaking, but noticeable. Other than that, no real bugs or noticeable performance issues. HIGHLY recommend this game. I'd say it feels very reminiscent of the momodora series in terms of difficulty and play style with it's own unique combat "weapons". I'm a MV/Action Platformer junkie, and I definitely plan on finishing this game through and plaything through again in the future!

April 2024

This was one of the nicest and most satisfying games I've ever played, At first I thought it would be a short, cute, little adventure game, but the story was charming and the characters where delightful. I ended up getting 100% for my save and missed my chance to get the bad ending but thats okay, this one is well worth a second playthrough. If you enjoy metroidvanias this one is a top tier indie game.

April 2024

I was genuinely surprised by how much I enjoyed this game, especially after playing Fearmonium by the same dev. Despite coming out before Fearmonium, Catmaze is by far the better one of the two. The combat feels better, the platforming feels better, the mechanics are more interesting and even the story is way better, both in what it sets out to do and in the delivery. That is not to say that the game is perfect, far from it, it contains a multitude of jank and small flaws that you would expect from a one-person project (in that, it was programmed by one person, to my understanding), however the game has enough charm that it's easy to overlook those flaws and still enjoy it regardless. I saw other reviews reporting a bug about falling through moving platforms and I'll gladly report that I have not encountered it once during my playthrough, which means it likely has been patched. One "bug" or just unintended behaviour I did encounter that almost made me drop the game however was a much smaller section near the ending of the game. Trying to avoid spoilers: there is a puzzle where you control the main character as a child, in this form she doesn't have any abilities besides those she has at the start of the game and her jump is significantly shorter, to the point even simple jumps over small pits feel pixel perfect in the distance you need to travel. While solving a puzzle in this state, I came up with the correct solution to the puzzle but was unable to execute it due to the jump coming up just a few pixels short of the platform I needed to reach. Again- it was not a hard jump in principle, I was literally standing on a barrel and pressing space to jump to a platform that was directly above the barrael, yet no matter what I did the character just wouldn't get on. Miraculously, after about 20 minutes of trying, the game just randomly decided to finally let me jump on top of that platform, which im thankful for because I was about ready to give up and accept that the game was simply broken. Still, I don't think that one instance is enough to give the whole game a bad review, I'm just writing it down here in case anyone else encounters a similar problem.

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Redblack Spade

Publisher

Redblack Spade

Release 24 May 2018

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