Catcrawl shows that all cats are beautiful
Who doesn't want to be a cat sometimes? Funding on Backerkit for Zine Month!
- Catcrawl by Plotbunny Games is crowdfunding for Zine Month now!
- Hexcrawl mechanics meet story games (GM-less/solo TTRPG for 1-4 players).
- Take turns playing the cat and explore a lovingly detailed apartment map.
- Illustrated with 35+ cat drawings by 17 people from our community.
Catcrawl your way through an apartment
You are a cat and have recently arrived in your new home. Now you’re alone in this unfamiliar environment for the first time and set out to explore it. Is your exploration going to be curious and cute? Or are you a cat that’s out for chaos and destruction? How are you going to interact with the environment and what are you going to discover? Play to find out!
Using a lovingly detailed apartment map with 24 squares for the cat to explore, players of Catcrawl take turns playing the cat, describing the environment, and narrating the consequences of the cat's actions. Several prompt lists support their exploration.
Catcrawl was written by award-winning design duo Jasmin Neitzel and Andrea Rick (Plotbunny Games) from Germany. The English version of Catcrawl will be crowdfunded on Backerkit during this year's Zine Month. The German version will be released in March for the Gratisrollenspieltage (the German Free RPG Days) as a PDF and locally available limited print run, which the crowdfunding will partially make possible. Both versions are available during the campaign.
Community artwork against AI
Besides the cover artwork, apartment map, and cat minis by Andrea Rick, the artwork in Catcrawl has been created by the wonderful Plotbunny Games Discord community and their families. Sixteen people have contributed over 35 black-and-white cat drawings in a glorious variety of styles and drawing techniques.
All of their cats are included in Catcrawl's layout (also created by Andrea Rick). Together, they celebrate the creativity of our community, the individuality of their creators, and their support of our games. They also illustrate what we lose if we don't cherish human-made art in all of its diversity and stages of proficiency.
Because all cats are beautiful. And we need our communities now more than ever.
Short sessions for exhausted people
If you're anything like us, you're pretty exhausted these days. Who has time for epic role-playing prep or 5-hour sessions in the midst of all of this?!
Which is why Catcrawl requires zero preparation – just open the zine and start playing! It also offers you a flexible session length of about 30 minutes to 3 hours, depending on how many squares you want to explore in one session and how long the cat stays in each of them (solo sessions are even more flexible if you just want to add a few minutes of being a cat to your day).
Like most other games published by Plotbunny Games, Catcrawl comes with a free template for online play via playingcards.io so you can easily play it with your friends around the globe, your friends who are too tired or too disabled to leave the house, and your friends who are taking care of kids (or cats) at the same time.
Take a break – be a cat for a while!
