A Wild Catgirl Appears is a short romance visual novel featuring multiple routes, different girls to date and of course, catgirls! You follow the story of Ami, a loner at high school, as she joins the school's coding club and sets about making her first video game.
User reviews: Mixed (100 reviews) - 45% of the 100 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date: 5 Jan, 2016

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23 February

AWCA v2.0 Now Released!

Hi everyone!

Just to say the new release is now LIVE! It now also works on 32bit PC's!

Linux and Mac should be here later this week.

Please post any bugs you find in the forum, as although I have tested the game, there might be one or two still!

Thank you,
NewWestGames

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26 January

AWCA Update 1

Would you like a little sneak peak into the remake? Work is already well under way, and going quite well indeed!

http://newwestgames.com/2016/01/26/awca-update-1/

As always, if you have questions feel free to message me directly here on Steam, or @NewWestGames on Twitter!

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A Wild Catgirl Appears - Now on Steam!
A Wild Catgirl Appears is a short romance visual novel featuring multiple routes, different girls to date and of course, catgirls!

Synopsis
A Wild Catgirl Appears follows the story of Ami, a loner at high school, as she joins the school's coding club and sets about making her first video game. They create Starla, an awesome catgirl ninja and create a figure to interact with their game. The figure doesn't quite work, but the next day Starla is quite real!

Who will you choose to date?

Includes free update!
All new for Steam is Eiko, a new catgirl character and route to the game adding over an hour of extra play time! Achievements and trading cards are also supported! Each route takes approximately 1.5 hours to play through so please try to get all of the achievements!

NewWestGames
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Please note - a 64-bit OS is required to play this game.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 7 64-bit
    • Processor: AMD Athlon / Intel Celeron
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Onboard
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 7 and above 64-bit
    • Processor: AMD Athlon X2 / Intel i3 and abve
    • Memory: 1 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Dedicated ATI / NVidia
    • Storage: 300 MB available space
Helpful customer reviews
191 of 223 people (86%) found this review helpful
5 people found this review funny
2.4 hrs on record
Posted: 5 January
This is a good first attempt. But in no way sufficient.

The technical aspect is clearly lackluster. The game doesn't have a fast forward, history or auto-read. I makes subsequent playthrough a bit annoying.
And no, unity is not designed for a visual novel. I know that some things are easier to do with it than with a game engine like Ren'Py, but the constraint are quite annoying : 200MB of ram ? really ? 64b system only ? Visual novels are great being played on small factor devices. For these reason, this is not possible with this game.

Characters art are good. However, they could benefit from more movements and poses.
Some special scenes (like the one in the shower room) could have dedicated graphics.
Some art are a bit behind in term of quality, like the shopping scene or the beach one. This is acceptable on a first try. But only on a first try.

Character development is... poor. Sorry, but that's something to work on.

Story is short, so i know i should not expect a great scenario.
As for the writing. Please note that descriptions are not superfluous. It does not have to be only dialogue.

This is a good test (on the developper's perspective) for things that are related to a game, like monetisation and deployment.

But remember, experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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339 of 475 people (71%) found this review helpful
29 people found this review funny
0.5 hrs on record
Posted: 5 January
A mediocre visual novel in which a well-endowed Mary Sue gets to fall in love with the character of her dreams. Literally. Granted, I wasn't expecting a literary masterpiece (who was?); decent yuri fluff would have been more than enough to justify the price tag.

But let's be honest here: 'mediocre' gives A Wild Catgirl Appears! far more credit than it deserves. Even if you can somehow get over the middle school-grade writing skill and all its typographical errors, the game itself is flawed at a mechanical level to a baffling degree; the menu is out of an alpha stage demo, background quality is inconsistent, the CGs border on nightmare fuel, sprites aren't always scaled properly and the painfully stock music often fails to queue as intended.

Then again, what do you expect from a VN made in Unity? No, I'm not kidding, it's actually built in Unity. Who the ♥♥♥♥ does that when options like Ren'Py exist?! I struggle to think of anything more blatantly amateur.

'Amateur' -- that's the lesson today. Character sprites this nice deserved better. Much better. Stick with the works of Hanako, Ebi-hime, Christine Love or even Sakura Fantasy if you want a competent OEL yuri VN; you're not going to find one here.
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84 of 100 people (84%) found this review helpful
16 people found this review funny
4.8 hrs on record
Posted: 5 January
What is this monstrosity!?

Okay, lets make it short.
-Looking at the content: I can say that this is just an uncreative VN. The story is just too simple and childy (There is 0 creativity in it).
-About the gameplay: The only thing you'll find is that decisions are almost inexistent.
-The HUD is just painful, what is that resolution? 640x480?

This is a total mess.

The only thing that could have saved this game (in addition to the card drops) is the artwork. Every character has like 3~4 face gestures (If not less) and 50% of the time they don't fit the situation. Yet it still has some decent images(? (Excluding all the horrorific drawings made by NewWestGames. Seriously, what is this AND THIS? WTF!).

In conclusion: This game is terrible. I wouldn't recommend it even to my worst enemy. But it has cards and only 4 achievements for easy completion so... It's something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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115 of 162 people (71%) found this review helpful
56 people found this review funny
0.1 hrs on record
Posted: 6 January
Got this as a joke. Tried a few minutes. Not laughing.
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28 of 33 people (85%) found this review helpful
1.4 hrs on record
Posted: 7 January
Not really.... the best.

I want to be able to give a better review; the game is, in its own way, charming. And the characters are pretty cute. However, there are just too many things that let the game down. I've heard from other reviews that it was made in only a month, but I feel that that still doesn't excuse some of its issues.

The first thing I'll mention is the artwork. Some character shots are okay, whilst a lot of others are of pretty shockingly poor quality. Some simply show a poor grasp on anatomy (and not in the way of over-large boobs, as thats of course a style all of its own - more in the way of strangely twisted frames and limbs), whilst other genuinly look as though they've been edited in a couple of minutes in paints - like the originals, but with features altered or added with thick, black blurry lines. Other images seem to be have been scaled up and down strangely, whilst some of the backgrounds are of dramatically better quality than others.

The outcome seems difficult to control, and the ending abrupt. Theres also very little in the way of actual romance scenes, though I only played through once, so there may be more hidden in there (though I doubt it). I was offered very little lesbain cat-girl smut, but to futher cement things I was also offered very little in the way of romantic story, and so walked away from the game pretty unhappy in general.

What else is there to say? Buttons are unresponsive, and take some trial and error to find - they're no where near their graphics. There is very little in the way of controls, with the game lacking even a basic volume control.

In conclussion, it is after all a pretty cheap game, even cheaper when on sale, and some may be able to look past its numerous faults in order to appreciate some hidden charms. If you're not new to visual novels, as I am, and are more willing to forgive, then give it a go. If not, I'd recommend passing it by.
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