Bounce Cat: Free the Cat

A cat is trapped in a maze you can't enter. Fire yarn from the rim, ride the ricochet, and nudge or smash the right walls so it finds its own way out. 200 mazes.

A cat is stuck inside a walled maze, and you are on the outside. You cannot walk in to carry it out. Instead, you stand at the rim and fire a ball of yarn through one of the open gates. The yarn keeps bouncing off the walls - angle in, angle out - and never fades; it vanishes only when it touches the cat, or flies out through an opening. Read the angles, open a path, and let the cat find its own way out.

THE TWIST You never control the cat directly. It drifts around the maze on the same bounce physics as your yarn, nudging off walls and never sitting still. Your job is to change the maze itself - clear a corner here, shift a wall there - until an exit lines up and the cat simply rolls out to freedom.

THREE KINDS OF WALL

• Solid walls never move. They are your fixed mirrors for banking shots.
• Sliding walls shove aside when your yarn hits them - reposition them to carve a new lane.
• Brittle walls shatter on impact - break them to punch an opening where there was none. Plan which wall to hit, and in which order, so the cat's wandering path lands on an open gate.

HOW A LEVEL GOES

• Drag from a gate to aim; a preview line shows where the yarn will bounce.
• Yarn is limited - every shot counts, so spend it where it changes the maze the most.
• Watch the cat's loop, time your shots, and steer the layout rather than the cat.
• Open a clear route to the outside and the cat escapes. Level cleared.
• Run out of yarn before that happens and you simply try again - no penalty, retry instantly.

200 MAZES, 10 WORLDS

• 200 hand-built levels across 10 worlds.
• Early mazes teach one idea at a time; later ones grow into sprawling layouts up to 42 by 54 tiles, full of bank-shot puzzles and movable, breakable walls.
• Five different cute cats appear across the levels, each riding the same lively bounce physics.

HANDY CONTROLS

• Restart: reset a level when a plan goes sideways. Restarts are limited - earn +1 for a three-star clear, or +2 by watching an optional video.
• Fast: hold to fast-forward the action while you hold the button, unlimited, so you never wait for the yarn and cat to settle.

A FEW MORE THINGS

• Circle-based bounce physics for both the yarn and the cat; when they collide, both change direction.
• A seamless looping soundtrack and soft sound effects.
• 12 languages.
• Plays in portrait or landscape.
• Works offline after install.
• Made by PixelRyu, an independent developer.

Free to play, supported by ads. No purchases required.

Read the room, take the shot, and let the cat bounce its way home.