HEN, CHICKS AND CATS (v1.0)

Ju’s frantic dash across colorful island puzzles gives HEN, CHICKS AND CATS a charming surface with a surprisingly demanding logic-game core. The goal sounds simple—guide a frightened mother hen to every stranded chick before prowling cats reach them—but each move can create a disaster. Ju cannot stop on command, instead racing forward until a wall or obstacle blocks her path, turning every level into a careful exercise in planning, positioning, and timing. The mood stays cute and relaxed thanks to bright art and gentle music, yet the puzzles steadily become tense when a single mistaken route leaves a chick exposed.

Players navigate compact, grid-like stages by choosing Ju’s direction and using the scenery to control where her uninterrupted movement ends. Cats copy her actions, so every command affects both the rescuer and the threat; success depends on exploiting walls, barriers, and level layouts to separate the cats from their targets. Each stage asks you to identify a safe sequence before committing, then restart and refine the plan when an experiment goes wrong. With 50 handcrafted levels, the challenge builds from understanding the movement rules into arranging complex routes where Ju, the kittens, and the cats all occupy exactly the right spaces.

The mirrored-enemy mechanic is the standout idea, giving the familiar sliding-block puzzle format a tactical chase element rather than relying on simple pathfinding. Its islands and cartoon animals make failures feel less punishing than they would in a stark abstract puzzler, while the underlying solutions still reward patience and spatial reasoning. Fans of compact, turn-based brainteasers in the vein of Sokoban-style games should appreciate its focus on clean rules that produce tricky consequences. HEN, CHICKS AND CATS suits newcomers because its premise is immediately readable, but puzzle veterans are likely to get the most from optimizing routes and untangling the later stages.