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Sort Them Cats 5,215 cats, one tidy shelf at a time

Sort a mountain of colorful cat figurines in a cozy little shop, matching each one to its place and earning paw coins for upgrades along the way.

Is Sort Them Cats worth it?

Sort Them Cats is worth it if…

  • you like low-pressure games where the only deadline is your own curiosity
  • you find sorting, matching and organizing genuinely relaxing rather than chores
  • you want to collect 5,215 tiny cats in space suits, pirate hats and fruit costumes
  • you enjoy poking through a colorful shop for hidden bells and small surprises

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Sorting, one shelf at a time

You open the door and the floor is a sea of little cats. Empty shelves line the walls. That is the whole job: pick up a figurine, find the shelf it belongs to, place it, feel a small click of satisfaction, repeat.

The rhythm is the point. As you settle in, you learn to gather several cats at once before heading to the shelves, so a trip that used to take three now takes one. The piles shrink. The shelves fill. Somewhere in there, the mess quietly becomes a collection.

Paw coins and upgrades

Every cat you place earns paw coins, and paw coins buy you a better sorting life: carry more cats per trip, reach farther across a shelf, unlock abilities that make the whole operation smoother.

So the game has a gentle loop of decisions. Spend early on carrying capacity and haul bigger armfuls, or save up for reach and place cats without walking the length of the shop. None of it is urgent, which is exactly right for a game about tidying up. The upgrades just make the satisfying parts more satisfying.

A shop that asks nothing of you

Nothing here chases you. No timers, no failure waiting around a corner, no cat that penalizes you for picking the wrong shelf first. You sort when you feel like sorting, put on the radio, and let an evening disappear into it.

The look helps: bright, colorful, hand-drawn in spirit, with a shop that gets warmer and more cheerful as it comes together. It is the kind of game you play to unwind, where the biggest decision is whether to finish this shelf or find just one more cat first. (It is always one more cat.)

Running a very specific kind of shop

This is shop keeping stripped to its most pleasant part: the stock. Instead of invoices and suppliers, your inventory is thousands of figurines scattered across the floor, and your task is getting every one of them onto its matching shelf.

There is real hands-on work in it, first-person and physical: walk the piles, pick up, carry, place. And there is the quiet shop-sim pleasure of watching a space transform, from a floor you can barely cross to a neatly arranged store you would actually want to visit. The customers are optional. The cats are not.

What else should you know?

How long does a full sort take?

The game is built around your pace rather than a fixed run time. With 5,215 figurines across 25 themes, there is a lot of shelf to fill, but nothing pushes you to finish: you can sort a little each session or clear the shop in a few long sittings. The hidden bells and surprises scattered around the shop give you a reason to wander between shelves, too.

Is there more to do than just placing cats?

Yes, though everything stays inside the sorting loop. You earn paw coins and decide which upgrades to buy, from carrying more cats at once to reaching farther, and you can build a colorful cat tower as your collection grows. Exploring the shop also turns up hidden bells and special surprises, so there is a light layer of discovery under the tidying.

What do the cats actually look like?

They come in 25 themes with playful costumes and tiny accessories: space explorers, pirates, fruity felines, musical cats and more. The figurines are small, colorful and stylized, part of the point is finding favorites among the thousands, so the designs lean cute and varied rather than realistic.

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