The Ultimate VR Cat Game That Lets You Become A Cat - I Am Cat VR Review

I Am Cat does exactly what it says in the title. It takes you, a human wearing a Virtual Reality headset, and turns you into a cat.

Well, it doesn’t make you a cat exactly, you’ll still be you, but I Am Cat does an absolutely incredible job of putting you into the furry paws of a feline and making you feel like a cat n Virtual Reality.

You can be a good kitty or literally the worst cat imaginable in I Am Cat, and that’s what makes it such a fun VR Cat Game.

This is the very definition of a VR Cat Game. The game doesn’t involve cats, or happen to show cats, or let you look at cats. I Am Cat makes you the cat, and it does so in very novel and fun ways that make full use of Virtual Reality hand controls and immersion.

Take your view of the world for an example. In most VR games your head is usually situated a few feet above the floor of the virtual world, at about your height or an average human height.

Instead in I Am Cat your head is very close to the ground. Your eyes are just above the floor, a lot like a cat’s. When you move your view of the world feels a lot like watching one of those cat collar camera videos, except with much smoother and less shaky vision.

You can use a lot of things around the house. Like the faucet.

Speaking of movement, the movement in this game is amazingly innovative and designed to make you imitate a cat to move.

You’ve got these long, straight arms, and the paw at the end of them follows your touch controller for each hand. There are no almost no physical buttons to press, no slide movement, all of the movement and interactions in this VR Cat Game are done with your paws. I mean your hands.

There are a tun of little games and cat toys to play with as a VR Cat.

The first thing that the game teaches you to do is walk. It can be tricky to get the hang of, especially if you’re used to other VR games that have you use the motion of your hands to move around the world, like Gorilla Tag.

While Gorilla Tag is a Gorilla VR Game that has you slapping the ground and other surfaces to move yourself around, I Am Cat feels much different. You have to move your arms kind of like you are imitating a cat. You have to quickly swipe at the ground with one paw and then the other in quick succession, just like a cat would.

It does take a little getting used to. I found myself trying to glide my paws across the ground like you would in Gorilla Tag, purely out of habit, and found that the game would frustratingly move me forward and then slingshot me back to where I started. This feedback wasn’t very pleasant, I’d rather just not have moved at all, but I did eventually learn to imitate a cat’s front paws with my hands to move quickly and comfortably.

The movement is so immersive because of this, and you can even pounce by smashing both paws against the ground, or climb by pawing at a vertical surface. You can even pick up objects with the grab button, which releases your claws, and hold items in your mouth. The movement is a lot of what makes this game so fun, and combined with how small you are in the world makes you really feel like a tiny cat scurrying and jumping around a house.

The tutorial in I Am Cat is great at showing you how to walk and move around. It does still take some getting used to though.

That’s where I Am Cat takes place, at least at the time of writing, entirely within a house with a ton of household items, toys, and your owner, an old woman.

She looks absolutely MASSIVE to you in the game. You are a cat after all, she’s so tall compared to you.

Your owner. She looks absolutely massive ingame and towers over you.

The scale of the house around you continues to reinforce that while you are playing this VR Cat Game you are a small cat instead of a human standing in a room with a VR headset on their face.

You can easily run and jump around furniture, mess with the many household items like the very intelligent feline that you are, eat your food, drink water. If you’ve ever seen a cat do something hilarious and silly then you can do it in I Am Cat.

There are a lot of things to explore and do, and interactions to discover, in the house the game takes place in. Despite being a two story and fairly average sized place, the house is a massive playground for you since well, you’re a tiny cat.

Climbing and jumping around is so much fun in this Cat VR Game.

You can turn on the TV, change the channel on the radio. Break into your owner’s computer, or even cook. There are an absolutely insane amount of things you can do.

Oh, and if you’re a bad cat and break some glasses, vases, or fine china, then your owner won’t be too happy with you either.

Make your owner mad in I Am Cat and she’ll whack you with a frying pan. No cats were hurt in the creation of this VR Cat Game.

There’s even a progression system with experience and levels. On your handy cat smartwatch on your left paw you can look at various tasks that you can do around the house.

These are all fun little cat activities like playing the piano, breaking stuff, exploring the top of the refrigerator. You know, Virtual Reality Cat Game things.

Each task gives you experience, and you gain levels over time. They’re an interesting way to introduce you to new wacky things that you can try around the house.

You’re given some direction in your Cat VR Game adventure through these missions, which are a ton of fun to complete.

I Am Cat is exactly what you’d want from a VR Cat Game. It turns you into a cat in VR, and wow does it do a good job at that.

Even if you aren’t a cat lover the unique movement system and perspective are fun an unique on their own, and completely worth checking out. You can play I Am Cat on the Meta Quest, and on Steam using PCVR. Enjoy!