Cats and Soup is a game where you watch over a small village of cats and slowly earn money to upgrade the cats and their village.
Mechanics- In the game you are able to see the skills of each cat in your village as well as the strengths/role of different clothing and items. You are also able to assign cats to different jobs in the village and dress them in different clothing. You may name the cats and feed them things, which causes them to level up and become better at their specified skill. You are able to collect the coins earned by each cat and spend them on various items for cats/the village. There are routine occurences of characters who pass through the screen and can be tapped to get coins.
Dynamics- The mechanics of the game leads users to collect coins so that they may buy the cute items available. Users may also strategize to give certain cats certain jobs and clothing to best utilize their skills, and some may choose to strategically level up cats with certain skills. The repetetive coin drops encourages users to stay on the screen and grind for coins.
Aesthetics- Cats and Soup aesthetic touches heavily upon fun in the forms of abregation, sense of pleasure, expression and discovery. Abregation is apparent in the way that the game has no objectives besides being able to change the scenery of the game and watch your cats accumulate /upgrade items. There is fun in the discovery of new cats and farming/cooking equipment which is routinely earned as you grind the game. Expression is present in the ways that you can dress and name your cats and sense of pleasure is prioritized when considering the soft animations, adorable art style, and calming sound track of the gave.
