Game Overview
A newly adopted cat becomes the quiet center of a household already cracking under the pressure of a failing marriage, difficult neighbors, and human ambitions. Choice of the Cat is a comedic interactive novel that turns everyday feline behavior—napping, scratching furniture, stealing food, and staring judgmentally—into tools for shaping entire lives. Its tone swings happily between affectionate pet-story warmth and absurd megalomania, letting you pursue cuddly domestic harmony, petty revenge, internet stardom, or a long-term plan to put humanity beneath the paw. With no visuals or action sequences to lean on, the writing makes its apartments, alleyways, rival animals, and increasingly ridiculous political possibilities feel surprisingly vivid.
Every scene presents decisions that define your cat’s personality and influence the people around you. You manipulate arguments, form alliances with pets, sabotage calls, create chaos, investigate household secrets, and decide whether problems deserve a soothing purr or a strategically timed knocked-over object. Choices steer both immediate outcomes and longer character arcs, so a benevolent rescue cat, a selfish menace, and a calculating ruler-in-waiting encounter very different relationships and endings. The text-based format keeps the controls simple, but the real challenge lies in reading humans well, balancing your desires against their needs, and committing to the consequences of your feline worldview.
What stands out is the scale of the branching narrative and its willingness to treat cat logic as both a punchline and a genuine role-playing framework. Rather than merely offering cute animal jokes, it gives weight to family conflict, friendship, loyalty, and the odd moral question of how much influence a pet should wield over vulnerable people. Gender options for your protagonist and extensive route variation encourage repeat playthroughs, especially for players who enjoy Choice of Games-style fiction, visual novels, or narrative RPGs such as Disco Elysium’s dialogue-heavy side. Anyone wanting reflex-based gameplay should look elsewhere, but readers who enjoy funny, choice-driven stories will find a remarkably flexible cat simulator here.
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Installation
- Select the Download button at the top of this page to open UploadHaven.
- On UploadHaven, wait for any countdown, then select Free Download. Optional: UploadHaven Pro for faster downloads.
- When complete, extract the archive to a Choice of the Cat folder using 7-Zip.
- Open the extracted folder and start the game normally.
- For errors, check Setup Guide & Troubleshooting below. Keep your security software enabled.
Setup Guide & Troubleshooting
How do I fix missing DLL errors for Choice of the Cat?
After extracting Choice of the Cat, navigate to the _Redist or _CommonRedist folder inside the game directory and install DirectX, Vcredist, and any other dependencies included.
What should I do if the downloaded file is corrupted?
The full archive is 95.62 MB — make sure your download completed fully before extracting. Use 7-Zip to extract the files. If you still see a "file corrupted" error, re-download and try again.
Do I need to run the game as administrator?
Usually, no. Start the game normally from the extracted folder. If you see a permissions or save error, check that the folder is writable and follow the game's documented fix. Only grant administrator access when a trusted game's specific setup requires it.
How do I update my GPU drivers for this game?
The game won't launch — what should I try?
Check that extraction completed and your PC meets the system requirements. Note any error message before choosing a fix. If it identifies a missing runtime, install the required DirectX components or Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable from Microsoft.
My antivirus is blocking the game — is it safe?
A warning needs to be investigated; the download source alone cannot confirm that a file is safe. Keep your security software enabled and review the detection details. Do not run or restore a flagged file unless you have verified that it is a false positive. If you are unsure, leave it quarantined.