Demo unleashed for Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery

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Cozy cat-themed whodunit coming to Steam for Windows PC in the first quarter of 2026

Between Blacksad, Inspector Waffles, Albert Wilde and more, it's getting awfully crowded in the cat detective litterbox. And soon another new investigator will be joining the clowder (real word!) in Nobody Crown's upcoming Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery.

Players control the unnamed "crime-crushing noir tabby" from the Feline Forensics department. As the department's lone investigator, it falls on you to figure out who made off with a priceless gemstone from the local museum in a brazen heist that "devolved into a grizzly murder." (Not a typo; get used to the puns in a game populated entirely by animals.) To find answers that "prove that there's no such thing as a purrfect crime," you'll need to examine the crime scene for evidence and interrogate a strange and quirky cast of characters like an "anti-social frog artist, a pig tourist with a suspicious past, [and] a true crime podcasting koala." Then you must "rely on deductive reasoning skills" to make sense of all the "mismatched alibis and mistrusting motivations" you dig up and unravel the "numerous layers of intrigue and conspiracy." 

Described as a short, "soft-boiled detective puzzler full of funny dialogue, cozy puzzles, and a mystery with plenty of cattitude," Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery is like a cross between a classic noir-styled detective story and cute cat videos. It's presented in a charming black-and-white cartoon art style, controlled via keyboard or gamepad with rotatable isometric camera angles. As you navigate the museum's "marble halls" and admire its many exhibits and parodied famous artworks, your investigation will be accompanied by the suitably noir-tinged "jazz soundtrack, composed of saxophones, plunger trumpets, and speakeasy pianos." Gameplay involves a combination of free exploration and menu-styled interactions with area-based hotspots that pop up when you draw near. Along the way there will be "several interconnected plots to follow and plenty of puzzles" to solve. To succeed you'll need to collect and examine evidence in your inventory, identify false testimony in your notebook, and fill in deductive blanks with collected keywords from your investigation, Case of the Golden Idol style. 

The complete version of Feline Forensics and the Meowseum Mystery is still a few months away, expected to launch sometime in the first quarter of 2026, with part of the profits going to "support cat adoption and rescue efforts." The good news is that you can already get your paws on the playable prologue available now on Steam for Windows PC. Better yet, this is just one of two different cat-themed (of course) games to look forward to Devcats, serving as publisher here while also hard at work on their own escape room puzzler Fluffy Escape: Cryptic Cube.