Free to playIs Sill Cats worth it?
Sill Cats is worth it if…
- you want quiet, cute company on your screen while you work
- you like pixel cats that nap, wander and react to your cursor
- you enjoy small routines like dawn playfulness and late-night zoomies
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Cats living on your desktop
Sill Cats is an always-on desktop app, not a level to beat. Every now and then one bats at your cursor, then pretends that was entirely reasonable. They usually stay out of your way, which is generous for cats.
Clicks, moods and midnight zoomies
You do not control the cats. You get their attention with one click, a reaction with two, and with three clicks they might actually play with you for a bit. They might also just sidle over to watch the cursor and decide that was enough. Their mood follows the clock. They are liveliest around dawn and dusk and properly lazy at midday. Stay up late and you may catch the sprint between 1 and 4 a.m., a sudden full-speed tear across the screen.
Two free cats and a growing family
The base app is free to start with an Abyssinian and a Tuxedo. You can show one or two at a time, across as many monitors as you have, and give a favorite a name to make it yours. Breed packs add more looks to choose from, without raising the two-cat on-screen limit. Toy packs, including a free Basic Toy Pack, put things on your screen for them to mess about with. Choosing the next arrival is half the point.
Quiet company while you work
The appeal is low-pressure company. The cats explore on their own, settle down for long naps during your daytime work, and add small moments of movement at the edge of a spreadsheet or browser tab. Settings live behind the little cat signboard or the system tray icon, where you change breeds, cat count and other options. Leave it running and your computer feels lived in, in a way that asks nothing of you.
Good to know before you adopt?
What do the cats actually do on my screen?
They stroll across the desktop, climb onto window edges, sleep in corners, watch your cursor and sometimes bat at it. Click once to catch their eye, twice for a reaction, three times and they might play with you briefly. Much of the time they just live there, napping through midday and getting livelier near dawn and dusk.
What is the deal with the late-night sprint?
Between about 1 and 4 a.m. the cats can suddenly tear across the screen at full speed. Night owls get the best seats.
Will they get in the way of work?
Usually not. That is the tax for having cats, pixel or otherwise. You can switch to one cat or adjust settings from the signboard or system tray icon.
