The Cat and the Coup

In The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall.

The Cat and the Coup is a free to play, indie and cats game developed by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad and published by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad and USC Games.
Released on June 15th 2011 is available on Windows and MacOS in 3 languages: English, French and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 1,049 reviews of which 983 were positive and 66 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10

  • Memory: 4GB RAM

  • Dedicated Video Card
MacOS
  • OSX 10.10

  • Memory: 4GB RAM

  • Dedicated Video Card

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Feb. 2017
Interesting use of a game to educate people on the history of the first democratically elected Prime Minister Of Iran. A short game with simple gameplay, and quite stunning visuals & music. You play as the PM's cat, who leads him through events throughout his life by solving simple puzzles. Don't take my word for it, and check out my video by clicking on the link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqH8C2HfZ1U
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Feb. 2017
An enticing visual story of the imperial West's role in Iran during the 1950s. In The Cat and the Coup, you play as the cat of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, and go through back in time his story as Prime Minister, starting with his death under house arrest, and ending with his defense of the nationalization of the oil in Iran. The Cat and the Coup is a must for anyone interested in Iranian history, and especially for anyone who hasn't heard of Anglo-American intelligence operations that led to Operation Ajax, and the outing of Dr.Mosaddegh. A short visual novel, the few minutes you'll spend in The Cat and the Coup will detail to you the events that led up to Operation Ajax, and will, with subtle jabs, the imperialist ambitions of the West whose espionage led to Mossadegh's overthrow.
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Feb. 2017
a beautifully produced game about the 1953 Iranian coup. the art (influenced by Persian art) alone warrants some of your playtime. unforunately, the gameplay itself is pretty much padding that hinders the pacing of the narrative. because of this, the game feels like a short video that occasionally wastes some of your time, which is to waste the potential of the format of a computer game. as for the history lesson, it is a bit shallow, but still interesting because i imagine that the POV and very knowledge of this event is foreign for many english speaking players. ++ the reverse-then-normal chronological order of the story is very neat ++ beautiful art 6.5/10
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Jan. 2017
20 minutes max. A lesson in history from a perspective you likely have not heard. Recommendation: Download and play it through.
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Jan. 2017
Yes is it way too simplistic to be called a "documentary" - But it did made look up Iran's recent history, did it? So it did what it was set to do. Looks like a quite limited production in terms of time and money. The final product is both entertaining and makes the player want to learn more about this very briefly covered subject. The gameplay is not histerical but I honestly don't understand what people expect from a free game that is labeled as "short" and it makes thiw brief history lesson much more fun and memorable than, say, just reading about it. The facts at the end go just a bit too fast IMO as someone who's native language isn't English. The contrast between the event in the game and the Art at the background shows a disturbing "fall from grace" of a whole nation\culture and is pretty powerful.
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The Cat and the Coup
8.8
983
66
Online players
0
Developer
Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad
Publisher
Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad, USC Games
Release 15 Jun 2011
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