Did you find all 10 hidden thumb logos?! (No, the logo in my steam account pic doesn't count!!) William and Sly franchise 🦊 store.steampowered.com/search/?franchise=William%20and%20Sly Matt Roszak's Hidden Cats & Dogs 🐱 store.steampowered.com/app/2624670/Hidden_Cats__Dogs/

@Monokumathebear

3 ай бұрын

epic!!

@evandrofilipe1526

3 ай бұрын

I only found like two, they must be really well hidden

@AtmaDragoon

3 ай бұрын

I...did _not_ find all of them, I'm afraid; got too absorbed in processing the subject material. :B Almost got a 50%, though -- 4/10 logos found.

@drock1331

3 ай бұрын

I found 3

@recentmap7268

3 ай бұрын

If you can't beat them, join them. Time to create 100 hidden fox game. Using William and Sly image as base 🦊🦊🦊

Why does anyone need a hidden cat game? Just go outside. They're there. They're hiding.

@Azaelris

3 ай бұрын

true

@widdlepocketmarcy

3 ай бұрын

XD

@cosmicspacething3474

3 ай бұрын

I like how ominous this sounds

@pizzaguy_

3 ай бұрын

T H E Y ' R E H I D I N G. T H E Y ' R E W A T C H I N G.

@ericonion3561

3 ай бұрын

They scratch me tho

Devcats' proceeds go to supporting cat adoption and rescue so if you're paying for a hidden cat games I heavily recommend buying the paid releases by that studio in particular.

@ancientGnome

3 ай бұрын

I can recommend Devcat’s games as well. They are some of the better ones, while still remaining cheap. Somewhat frustrating for me, though, since I tend to stall out whenever 1-2 cats remain on a screen. The "FIND ALL:" series mentioned in the video is also decent and changes things up with every release. I’d recommend 2 and 3 over 1 and 4, personally. Some of the other games are straight up rubbish. No effort, copy-paste distilled boredom. One Dollar for a game is actually not cheap if you only get 5-10 minutes of content out of it. It’s a good thing you can ask Steam to refund the worst offenders.

@fearsomefawkes6724

2 ай бұрын

I was going to recommend An Arcade Full of Cats. So much fun and not just shovelware.

@kzgames3023

2 ай бұрын

Came here to say this.

@Varangian_af_Scaniae

2 ай бұрын

Proof for that??? "trust me bro" or what?

@Speed001

2 ай бұрын

Not saying that's a bad thing. But where are these cats coming from? We already have areas overpopulated by cats and dogs. Are these animals spayed/neutered to help prevent that? What's their business model, who is handling the funds?

When I started working on my game I didn't realise how many there were - I'm gonna change the name to Matt's Hidden Cats soon. I was only familiar with Hidden Through Time and Hidden Folks! I gotta say though, it is pretty satisfying to play these micro games and get all the achievements in 5 minutes.

@2leftthumbs

3 ай бұрын

Heya Matt! I like the rebrand! It rolls off the tongue well :3 I remember Hidden Through Time. That game was great! I can definitely see the inspiration now that you say it. But I think you've kept it very much your own :) Looking at it now, I wonder if Hidden Folks inspired the black & white Anatoliy's 100 hidden cats? And absolutely! It's like a slot machine that keeps paying out every 5 seconds. Hard to resist!

@MattRoszak

3 ай бұрын

@@2leftthumbs Hidden Through Time got quite a lot of comments accusing the game of being a ripoff of Hidden Folks, which I found quite funny because they're all obviously ripoffs of Where's Wally, and aren't so similar anyway. If only people knew about the ripoff-ing that was still to come!

@Terrivian_Vess

3 ай бұрын

@@MattRoszak I heard about your game through the recent EBF4 10th anniversary update, and look forward to it! I've really liked the other spin off games you guys have, and know you'll make it a unique experience.

@fiddlestickjones

3 ай бұрын

I didn't think you would be here, been playing your games for years on flash, you have definitely made some great games, you haven't seen a dime from me though, because I'm broke, but I wish you luck on whatever project you do next

@CosPlaywright

3 ай бұрын

The man, the myth, the legend. The Newgrounds Era's favorite Polish weeb.

I audibly went 'WTF?!' when I saw CatBox at 7:08. This is almost a direct copy of "Cats Organized Neatly" by DU&I

@MattRoszak

3 ай бұрын

I noticed that too!

@usernametaken017

3 ай бұрын

​@@MattRoszakarent you the battle fantasy dev

@MattRoszak

3 ай бұрын

@@usernametaken017 I'm also the Hidden Cats dev!

@SomniumLG

3 ай бұрын

Yeah unfortunately no graphical elements have been copied 1:1 so we couldn't DMCA it :(

@eunaosei4187

3 ай бұрын

yeah i noticed it! i have cats organized neatly on steam and its so obvious this game is coping it

I want to point out that the devcats apparently spend a portion of their revenue on charity and "raising awareness on adoption and rescue" which is actually pretty cool

@unkarsthug4429

3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, "Raising awareness" is not the same as helping. For example, The breast cancer foundation has long used the fact that their mission statement is "Raising awareness" rather than "Ending breast cancer" to put most of their expenses into advertising rather than actual research, because advertisements count as informing people, and thus "raising awareness". I'm not saying the devs are doing that, but when you hear that, it is at least often a sign of a charity that only exists to get donations, then spend them to advertise for more. (There's only so much awareness people need, before you're just trying to get everyone else to solve the problem you claim to be working on.)

@_Cloun

3 ай бұрын

@@unkarsthug4429the thing with ADOPTION specifically is that awareness is GREAT and actually helps cats get adopted!

@megapussi

3 ай бұрын

i mean sure, i can trust a random company to donate "a portion" on "raising awareness," or I can actually do the research and donate directly to a charity I know will actually use my money (which they get more than "a portion" of) effectively

@TehTeh911

3 ай бұрын

The characters in their games are their real life rescue cats and the games are full of pictures of them, pop ups with cat care information and educational info about cats in general. I really liked the Zodiac sliding puzzle game and am enjoying the cat sudoku game as well, though I feel it could do with some quality of life features. Also like the games are less than $5 each, even if the money was just going to buy treats for their kitties I'd be stoked.

@jamesmillerjo

3 ай бұрын

Not cool, man. Not cool.

I really wish steam would bring back something like green light where the community can give actual good high quality games a stamp of approval. Its basically impossible to find anything new that doesn't look like low quality shovel ware.

@martynas6ha4griefer

3 ай бұрын

It would be nice to have some sort of 'moderation' or quality control, however I could also see it being easily bypassed or abused in one way or another. Not to mention that by nature it would just make harder for developers to release titles, which is good if you want to prioritize quality, but not so great if someone is looking to get feedback from players on an early access title. Anf of course, steam/valve with the current system get paid 100$ just for the publish of it. Not giving much incentive to change that. I'd personally love if there was some compromise and a way to moderate without the issues that it'd present, but I've no idea what that'd be right now.

@dynogamergurl

3 ай бұрын

The bot reviews could still ruin it like they have other reviews

@fonesrphunny7242

3 ай бұрын

And who is going to vote? The same average gamers who regular fall for bad early access games, despite all the red flags? Great, so basically nothing changes and the "best" scam games still get greenlit. It's even going to be worse, because people will see the greenlight badge as sort of a "sign of quality", even though quality has little to do with it. Not to mention bots and people who take money for positive feedback. You just can't have meaningful votes on technical things like this.

@JMcMillen

2 ай бұрын

Greenlight didn't work because there were organized attempts to approve garbage games, and many times they were successful.

@NatetheNintendofan

2 ай бұрын

you deserve 10,000 steam points for this comment

I heavily appreciate the good words about Matt Roszak's games, especially as a long time fan of his. Either way, this does seem kind of like an epidemic and definitely should be made known, especially by bigger channels.

@hugh2861

3 ай бұрын

Hello, fellow NoLegs avatar. And yeah lol, first thing I thought when i saw this trend happening was "oh no, Matt is making one of these", so glad his was pointed out in this vid as an example of a good one.

Your marketing for William and Sly won't work on me! *I already bought it!* wait.

@2leftthumbs

3 ай бұрын

You are a True Man, Truman Graham. Yours truly, -Graeme

@jkjkrandom

3 ай бұрын

​@@2leftthumbsI used to play the original 2 games when i was a kid. I knew I recognized th name from somewhere but the footage of the class collection reminded me. I'm going to pick those up and reply them.

I learned from the recent fake game titles flood that one way titles are able to get positive reviews built up is that they'll set the price to be unreasonable in almost all currencies except for something like rubles and then buy many copies in using that currency to leave reviews. Because it's so expensive for other currencies it won't get bad reviews from them. Then once it's able to show a positive review score they will fix the prices. So devious. The secondary game key market is going to be flooded with these fake game titles because even though Steam removed them from the store the keys can be redeemed and will show the name of the game they're copying. Then the person goes to install it and sees that it's some shovelware crap.

@jademonass2954

3 ай бұрын

is THAT why i saw a game that looked to be made by a 10yo priced at $200? thats insane

Wow, I played william and sly as a kid on some flash game sites all the time, it was one of my favorites and the game that made me realise games can be meditative, and art.

going through my reccomended queue was so annoying. I'm trying to curate a library of games I would like to play, and after filtering out tags that aren't relevant, I'm left with half my recommendations being these cat games. A lot of these games are tagged as every game type on steam, making filtering them out extremely difficult, and its screwing up the algorithm just enough that its hiding new releases of games that I would buy to the point where I have to find a game myself (through KZread, Kickstarter, or an ad) rendering the queue and even wishlist useless for me.

@illdeletethismusic

2 ай бұрын

my steam has 87832 titles marked as ignored, an ever growing list

My favorite of these cat games are the "An ... Full of Cats" from the DevCats, they promote to adopt shelter cats and also rescue cats and every game purchase helps rescued cats.

I've been playing the anatoliy games for almost a year now, and when I saw the copycats i legit thought they were his, and once i loaded in I got lowkey angry at the straight plagiarism of a man's passion projects. It's absolutely disgusting ngl

Great video - its refreshing to see a video pointing out an issue of this kind with a distinctly non-bitter tone, though it does feel like there may be some bad actors involved in the more mass produced instances.

@yoshimasterleader

3 ай бұрын

It kinda makes him sound more bitter. Like how someone who's clearly upset puts on a fake smile.

@zarrg5611

3 ай бұрын

​@@yoshimasterleaderBetter than the mean spirited dreck that many like to dump nowadays, besides It's immaterial now, the genre fell of hard soon after this video - just check steam new releases

@followthefundev

2 ай бұрын

Can you elaborate on the bad actors?

@zarrg5611

2 ай бұрын

​@@followthefundevJust the idea that this can be used as cheap content generation, guess it's not illegal, though it could be related to illegal activities I guess,

@followthefundev

2 ай бұрын

@@zarrg5611 Ah ok, I was expecting some horrible rabbit hole lol

This is just flash games but on steam and paid

@Manavine

3 ай бұрын

tbh, expected really. Only reason they're paid is probably because steam charges to publish games

@Metqa

2 ай бұрын

I miss my old flash games. I found a flash emulator online to play a few but the rest are gone forever. I actually like the hidden cats games. It makes me want to take the page nd color it in with coloring pencils IRL. I wonder if there is DLC for that?

@wolfandspice

2 ай бұрын

​@Metqa If it wasn't Flashpoint then use that, it's the biggest Flash preservation project with over 160,000 games.

1:32 above the barrel on the left 3:05 next to "SteamDB" 3:37 (pause,it's a little sneaking and used the keys a little) on the cover image for "101 Cats Hidden im Dubai" 8:28 (pause,it's a small bit fast) next to "Interest over time" 13:54 (pause) on Hidden winter cats' cover image. is all i could find.

@honaleri

3 ай бұрын

10:19 Its floating in the image as you scroll down. 2:08 In the volcano.

@Radio.SiIence

3 ай бұрын

7:02 in the box with “FIND ALL 3: Travel”

It's wild and sometimes a bit frustrating that the simplest "low effort" games sell so many more than a lot of other indies that don't even get a fraction of the attention they deserve.

It's fascinating to see all these flash game devs from my childhood still going at it, facing new challenges we never could have seen coming all those years ago. William and Sly, Sonny, Epic Battle Fantasy, Book of Mages, Epic War, Gemcraft, Platform Racing 2: these free games I sank hours and years into were my gateway into the medium, and I just hope whatever this new trend ends up becoming, it will lead a new generation to join the hobby.

I'm actually part of the problem here because I keep buying them :[ I genuinely find them fun and relaxing, they're just a pleasant experience to wind down with after a stressful day, actually it awakened a new interest in hidden objects/scavenger hunt types of games for me. I play a lot of the "Find the ___" type games on Roblox as well. It's simple, engaging enough to where I don't fully turn my brain off, but don't have to go full "gamer" mode to play it, and let's me enjoy a fun little experience for a short period of time before I'm onto my next task. I honestly wish full on Where's Waldo scenes would be made, full of little fun details to look at, gags, and chock-full of objectives to find. I like the singular focus on "cat" or "bee" well enough but I would love something more extravagant. I'm not sure what you call those immense Where's Waldo-ian scenes, but I would gladly pay for some games like that. I understand it's definitely not for everyone, and some may even find them annoying flooding the pages of steam. With any trend it will eventually die off. But maybe they don't have to, if more full experiences were made by devs who also share an interest in this sort of thing. I noticed a dev called Matt Roszak, they made the Epic Battle Fantasy series, creating a game just like that and I'm very excited for it. I already have it wish listed. I will also admit I am on the spectrum, so that might have something to do with it? Idk haha. Anyway, good video! Just wanted to leave my own piece here.

@2leftthumbs

3 ай бұрын

As you should! If those are the games you like, please, continue to support that! My main issue here is: The free releases choking out indie games. And that's a Steam-side issue, NOT the developers or the users! Take a look at Hidden Through Time, and (one I just learned of) Hidden Folks! Those might scratch that more full-on hidden object itch :) Funny that you mention Matt's new game! I gave it a shoutout later in the video haha

@yosupitsvic7612

3 ай бұрын

@@2leftthumbs So you did! And, I've actually already beaten Hidden Through Time and all it's DLC, and... actually played through as many online levels as needed to get all the achievements. And I have the sequel. I might be addicted. o_o But yeah, some more legit good hidden object games are "A Building Full of Cats" and its sequel "A Castle full of Cats" which funny enough has this like, Castlevania sorta thing going for it, Crime O' Clock, and to add in something a little different "Find Everything" on Roblox which is this insanely cool platformer collectathon that is seriously underlooked and deserves a lot more attention I think But even as a fan of these games, I will agree that it overwhelms the store. ITs as if every other week im seeing a new one pop up under the "new releases" tab and while that's cool for me and means more fun, I can easily imagine how frustrating it can be for those who want to see other indie games and for the devs who put their games on steam only for them to buried under "I commissioned some bees" 47th entry in the series. It is an interesting dilemma for sure.

@nayzal

3 ай бұрын

​@@2leftthumbs +1 for Hidden Folks. Such a charming game, the world feels so alive!

@elrodiel2412

3 ай бұрын

I'm also guilty. There is a Where's Waldo with some twists. It is called Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective. I loved HoG games from the BigFish era before smartphones. The black&white scenes I belive came from Hidden Folk dev Adriaan de Jongh and illustrator Sylvain Tegroeg. Never heard from them for years till this January when the dev said they might come back to this genre and encouraging ppl to discuss them on their discord. All those free games have to compete with each other and not take the highlight of maybe other "classic" HoG games. Ppl when they see free scene that, yes, they scratch the itch, they will never pay for an actual full on HoG with jokes, adventures, aha moments etc.

@cats4president

3 ай бұрын

in case you would enjoy a similar but off-screen tabletop experience, i strongly recommend the boardgame "micromacro: crime city".

I don’t really see many cat games on my steam front page.

@MistyLose

3 ай бұрын

Well they are hidden

@Gust3883

3 ай бұрын

@@MistyLose It's definitely a lot more than 100 tho.

@macnbac3476

3 ай бұрын

First time I'm hearing about any of them

@jnharton

3 ай бұрын

You probably don't play cat games...

@psiryan

2 ай бұрын

Same. I think the algorithm is dependent on the users play history and suggestions based on game tags related to that history.

0:32 I find these games annoying since whenever I am trying to find monster Raising games (like palworld or Nexomon or monster rancher) I have to type in the genre 'Creature Collecting' . Which theses cat game have the tag of

@Cuprite1024

3 ай бұрын

Just one more reason we need a proper Monster Tamer/Taming tag.

@robertskitch

3 ай бұрын

Steam also lets you exclude tags from any of your searches. Would excluding hidden object games help?

@imalltheragex2000

3 ай бұрын

@@robertskitch idk

@WhirlyBeepBoops

3 ай бұрын

I think people such as Gym Leader Ed are pushing for something like that

not brotato being called a vampire survivors clone 🥲

I remember Joel Vinesauce falling victim to one of the “bootlegs”

honestly been addicted to the hidden animal games. A fun time waster when im on Discord with friends

One of the first wildly popular and successful hidden object games was Hidden Folks. It's got the same black and white artstyle as these newer games but with a lot more charm and care put into it and of course being paid. It's a game I genuinely recommend if you're into these hidden object type games.

As your average consumer I had no idea this stuff even existed, much less at this scale, really cool deep dive into this niche existence.

1- 2:05 (On the volcano) 2- 3:09 (SteamDB logo) 3- 8:30 (next to "interest over time") 4- 10:19 (in one of the screenshots of "Cats hidden in jungle Jams") 5- 11:27 (On the dinosaur's head in the bottom left) 6- 13:53 ("Hidden winter cats" banner)

William and sly??? I remember playing that over and over as a kid, wow that's amazing.

I clicked on this video because I didn't know there were so many hidden object games but also a few years ago I saw a streamer playing "Find All" which you also showcased here and I absolutely adored how the picture got colored in as you found objects, and also that you wouldn't be offered other objects to find until you found all of the category of objects it was asking for. For example if there are 5 candles to find, you won't be shown any new objects to find until you find all 5 candles. It offers three kinds of things to find at once so if you can't find all of one category you can probably find all of one of those other two, and once you do get a new kind of object to find in that one's place. It's extra fun because you're on a timer, and so finding all the objects fast enough can get you a steam achievement (bronze, silver, or gold), and there are hundreds of objects per level. All that combined with the levels asking the player to find a different combination of items each time (it's a random order) means it can be quite a challenge to get all the time achievements as you can't just memorize first cats then dogs, then instruments as the order items will be shown is random. All the Find All games also have a nice sound track, and the backgrounds change perspective based on camera movement/some objects move based on the game state. Some of the games also include mini games that aren't hidden object games within them. The other hidden object games you showed on here seem to be quite lacking in challenge and polish comparatively with the Find All games, and so the other ones you mentioned don't personally interest me, though I can understand liking a simple search game, I usually prefer a little bit more to my games.

Was surprised when you mentioned a William and Sly successor! I played that game constantly as a kid, to a point where I could speed run it. What a gift to know its come back!

Fascinating. I didn't know Steam had a KZread style algorithm. This reminds of a video in the anime community about Japanese light novels starting on a site that also has a sort of algorithm. This lead to light novels becoming very similar and developing increasingly ridiculously long titles. This explained where all the ridiculously long titles for anime adaptations of light novels came from.

very interesting video! nice work man, i noticed this trend a few weeks ago but i didn't realize how deep the rabbit hole went

there are so many 18+ games, having simple "find 100 cats" games flud the trending instead of miss goblin girl is much better even in this video there are so many hent games popping all over the place

@2leftthumbs

3 ай бұрын

I think it's basically 1 toggle to not be shown those. I just have it off, so I can get a clearer picture of what is releasing day to day

I mostly play free games, but we're talking about big live service free games, not little 1-hr experience cat games. I didn't even know these cat/find-object things existed until this video!

My favourite game on steam is a free game but it's a Battle Royale game, I've played it for over 2000 hours at this point. Also yeah I noticed this too recently, the robo and dino cats lined up with the steam event since they could be made quickly enough for it which probably helped boost their popularity too

I think the appeal of hidden cat games is that you can just zone out while binging a slow-paced drama or listening to a podcast. Being able to play a game with only the mouse means I can eat a snack or drink while winding down.

I like this cheery and upbeat hyper-positive tone for an acutal serious problem that has been plaguing Steam for the past 5-8 years...

I think steam should also have their "new and trending" page generally only be allowed to include one game per developer. I know theres been other issues similar to this in the past where devs have had the misfortune of posting their game when a massive studio decided to port a ton of their backlog to PC

Wait, William and Sly, as in those old flash games? How did I not know about this, I loved those games!

I feel embarrassed that I didn't realise it was THAT William & Sly until 11 minutes in lol

Man, I was only able to find, like, 4 logos. The "Hidden ____" trend has definitely been noticed by me as of late, glad to see someone else talk about it Also, William and Sly is great, I *can* confirm

I paid for the Jingle Jam 2 years in a row and I have a hidden object 'cat in an arcade game'. I had no idea this was such a common thing on Steam lol.

the entire video i was thinking about matt's game, so i was kinda shocked when you actually gave that man the shoutout he deserves

Thank you so much for bringing my attention to the third William and Sly game! I had no idea there was another one in development!

It's like putting out coloring books to pay the bills while you write your graphic novel.

Loved the William and Sly flash game. Only played the first. But played it from start to finish about five times. And to 100% each time. Been waiting for the 3D version. The moment I seen this video tell me the game is now on Steam, I got it instantly. Not sure what it was made with, but if Unreal was used, it might be possible to play it in VR with UEVR. Likely best to play it on the 2D screen anyway. Either way, it looks like it be a blast to play, and over 9,000 times better than The Fist Tree (some other 3D platform game, I didn't like much, with a fox you also get to play as).

Very funny seeing this rundown right after having the same exact experience looking at the releases surrounding Windowkill. I didn't really look into it much, i mostly had the same reaction (copy-pasted assets is lame but if people are enjoying the games then more power to them). Hope the release of William and Sly continues to prosper!

I played a few of the hidden cat games, then got discouraged with them being one-shots. I started wondering if they were doing data collection somehow.

@followthefundev

2 ай бұрын

Unlikely, people just like hidden object games! But it's very easy to check using free software like glasswire, which easily show what apps are accessing the internet (i.e. it should be none for these types of games).

yep i've noticed this over the past few months.. very interesting watch, thanks!

great video and love this a lot on how bring attention to this trend and others but quick question, what was the best hidden cat game on steam though in your opinion?

If there was ever a mascot for the internet it'd be a Cat- Cat Videos are like a trend that never dies, it just never gets old seeing Cats get up to their strange antics. I got one in my lap right now

8:10 It could also be that they got into the coupon thing that Steam gives you when you complete a collectible card pack. These coupons usually reduce the price of a game by a lot and it makes sense for them to set the original price prohibitively high to compensate for that.

Great video! Regarding the $25 shovelware games, there is a hidden market of game developers who make their money not by selling games directly, but by signing up to game key sites and selling "mystery box" packs of games. They usually "guarantee" games of a certain $ value, and all that actually means is that you're going to get 2-3 pieces of shovelware which cost $25 on steam but are worth $0

I played an arcade full of cats, and I found it enjoyable. I thought it was just a was to sell dlc for it, but it definitely has more thought put into it that "find the 100 objects" games that are being mass produced.

100% agree with separating free and paid games on trending/ upcoming. It's really a no-brainer and benefits the consumer, producer, and Steam itself.

will just say, i played willaim and sly 2 in my childhood and i recently rediscovered it, not only the flash games BUT the third one to! its so nice to see the franchise still kicking :)

I wanna make a find the 100 cats game with a massive map but there are no cats at all

@topcatfan

3 ай бұрын

Or only 99

3:21 bro... 💀

@2leftthumbs

3 ай бұрын

I have all filters off on my business account so I can track release trends. I didn't really want to put my personal account out there. That... may have been a mistake. I'll blur that out!

@Magmacholic

3 ай бұрын

@@2leftthumbs yee that's entirely fair lol, just found it funny when I saw that pop up outta nowhere.

@Sherin974

3 ай бұрын

@@2leftthumbsNo don't apologize. Seeing the content being listed next to each like that made me think there was something to bypass a filter. Everything checked ok.

Devcat games are really good, the mansion one is my favorite so far

I have added “hidden objects” to my steam filters since these games don’t appeal to me at all and are so rampant. I’m really glad steam allows you to do that

1:32 -> Left side above barrel 1:50 -> Volcano 3:05 -> On steam DB logo 3:37 -> 100 Hidden cats in Dubai image 4:30 -> Fifth slide in carousel 7:02 -> Find all 3 travel image 8:30 -> Right of interest over time 10:19 -> right image of cats hidden in jingle jam 11:27 -> Bottom right atop T Rex's head 13:52 -> Hidden winter cats image

I remember hearing about one of these games on some site for steam cards. and if i had to guess i think a lot of the sales are probably from people buying the game for steam levels. since they are so cheap.

@bestaround3323

3 ай бұрын

Some people need the extra friend slots

I only discovered this through Devcats, idk which game i got first but i liked their sudoku and sliding puzzle game and that they're themed around educating on cat rescue and care. I didnt notice until the next couple weeks a million of them showing up and i did indeed get irritated. I was like steam i dont need 20 low quality versions i was just supporting a dev i liked.

7:10 that "cat box" game is awfully similar to Cats Organized Neatly

Interesting topic, but what's crazy to me is that I stumbled upon this video in the algorithm, and immediately thought William and Sly sounded familiar. I definitely played the original games on Kongregate like 15 years ago. Interested to see what your new project is like.

I started watching this thinking you were going to show a top ten of unknown awesome cat focused games

I was brought on to a hidden cat style fan game for Selen Tatsuki (a vtuber) at the end of last year. It's definitely a simple game to make, but helped a bunch with developing my Godot + project skills

It's as if some developers wanted to create games out of love and others out of greed. Who would have guessed!

Off topic to the video, but i remember playing a William and Sly browers games many years ago. Great to see that you got a full game now, hope for the best.

No matter how far the internet progresses, it will always loop back around to funny cats.

This trend maybe from the game a Castel full of cats which is a better one of these with colors and puzzles

@Nightmaze

3 ай бұрын

"A Castle Full Of Cats" is not the first game of that sort from Devcats, the first one is "A Building Full Of Cats". You can also play the very recent "An Arcade Full Of cats" which is free.

Man, I've been loving those games on Steam recently... probably 'cuz I grew up playing hidden object games by Artifex Mundi on Big Fish Games, with basically everyone in my family owning a cat or two.

I appreciate you shouting out Matts game. With the unfortunate overlap I was worried the game would catch some undeserved flak, now I hope it'll introduce more people to his art

Never even glance at the Steam free games, haven't ever played a "Hidden X" game. I had three hidden logos, focusing on static shots, or, assuming you would be sneaky, screen shots or screen recordings of static pages with zooms and pans. I briefly thought I had a fourth and fifth before realizing your Steam avatar is the logo...D'OH!! Then I did spot a logo on an actual scrolling screen recording! By the end, workout replaying anything, and mostly more interested in the actual content of the video, I got 5.

I have over 4000 free games on my account. And I have played around 1000 of them. I've found some hidden gems among those, but I also have to go through a lot of trash to find those. However, I'd say some of the Hidden Cat games are pretty entretaining and wouldn't go in the trash category.

@2leftthumbs

3 ай бұрын

There are some decent ones! But the longer the trend has gone on, the more overstuffed the store is becoming with low effort versions

@zepyzeck

3 ай бұрын

@@2leftthumbs yeah definitly. i played most of the free hidden cat games, and the newer ones have less and less quality

Fun fact in 2014 scott cawthorn also made a fairly similar concept game called "kitty in the crowd" where you scroll around an image looking for kittens! But instead of a minimalistic 2d artstyle, it was basically just a bunch of pngs on top of eachother hahah

William and Sly looks a lot like a game I did play - The First Tree.

Well, I rarely ever leave comments on youtube videos, and well, somehow, youtube decided to serve yours up to me. Yes, there has been a glut of hidden animal games lately, making it harder and harder for indies like yourself that put in more effort in creating their games. Best of luck with your game release, I'm going to take a look at it now since I've never heard of them before.

I noticed this trend just yesterday while looking at the available sales. The only game I've purchased that is similar is Hidden Folk. Also, I never play free games on steam, I have enough paid games on my library that I never play.

12:02 EBF are still some of the most satisfying flash games i have ever played, ever a decade+ later.

I remember I played the DevCat Hidden in an Arcade game , and some days laters I saw that my Brother got achievements in a bunch of different games of the the kind , and I just thought “Wow, that is a lot of them out of nowhere “ , so it is interesting to know a bit of their origins (=´∀｀).

they should just bring greenlight back

Thank you very much! This is a very good video. I stopped doing "hidden..." because I was tired of the genre. I changed my attitude to game development and went into 3D.

You just helped me pad my steam achievements

Another thing about it is that 5 of these games made it into SteamDB's top 250, with 2 of them making the top 50.

I got spooked cause i have a little puzzle hidden cats game called Cats in Time by the devs of Escape Simulator but it seems to be completely unrelated to this trend.

Never during my 3 playthroughs of Mushroom Cats did I consider it would be this influential.

I didnt find all 10 but I got half at least! 1:59 volcano 3:13 steam db logo 8:30 next time 10:27 scrolls away 13:54 highlighted game --- I doubt the steam account user PFP counts or not lol

i paid and played like 4 hidden games a few years ago (by the first dev you mentioned!) i found them cute, and left it at that but yea, recently ive been getting reccomended that style of game left and right, a bit too many are popping up

0:10 LIMBUS COMPANYYYYYYY

@cameronplatt5097

3 ай бұрын

haha nice (i am mentally ill)

@playday663

3 ай бұрын

The 4925 current players had a purpose

I have 5 different hidden cat games in my library bc i brought a cheap bundle and 3 of them were included, the other 2 were free anywat

The system works when after saying, "what is this why is this being shown to me" the two weeks to, "jesus chist another one is this some sort of scam?", to a video essay about these games. Meanwhile you got blatant fraud on the platform with name changing games/dev/publishers to established titles.

@2leftthumbs

3 ай бұрын

Oh yeah! There's all sorts of BS going on on Steam. Someone changed their app name and price the other day to look like they were Helldivers 2 for 50% off. I think that was shut down rather quickly!

This really reminds me of trends like simulators and tycoons on Roblox

I saw one of those cat games on New & Trending. Installed it didn't know what to expect more than I thought there would be 10-ish free maps and then an option to by more maps. Not that the game only had one map and all 100 achievements were one for each cat found. But even after installing and finishing that game I have not gotten anymore recommendations for those cat games.

13:40 ROCK AND STONE!

I am surprised no one did this minimalistic genre for mobile devices. Games are cheap, sessions aren't long mechanics (scroll and tap on the screen) are made for mobile... It would be perfect fit here

Woah...I played William and Sly on Bubblebox or something back when I was a kid... To think Id randomly come across your channel, learn you are still making things AND that the maker of Epic Battle Fantasy is still around too? I guess it makes sense that Flash games were the original Indie platform and the creators would still be going strong

11:54 Matt Roszak mentioned!! Woohoo!! xD

only hidden cats game I play is cats in time which is more of a puzzle game