Planned Release Date: Jul 17, 2026

About This Game

Match 3. Break everything. Run it back.

Cat 3 takes the cozy match-3 board you know and launches it into deep space. Line up three or more cosmic cats to clear them and strike the enemy. Watch your run-built upgrades turn every cascade into a screen-clearing storm. It's a match-3 at heart, a roguelite in structure, and a bullet-heaven in spirit.

Pick your hero

Start each run with one of four heroes, each with a run-defining perk and a chargeable special ability:

• Peridot — she likes money. Earns bonus gold on every match. Special: Gold Rush.

• Birdie — tanky and tenacious, with a fat max-HP cushion. Special: Feather Barrier.

• Carrot Cake — sweet lifesteal that keeps you in the fight. Special: Cat Nap.

• French Fry — pure aggression, with a big damage boost. Special: Grease Fire.

Draft a build, not just a board

Clear a wave and the shop opens: pick from rarity-tiered upgrade cards that stack in wild ways! Sharper claws, crit chains, cascade bonuses, auto-damage, lifesteal and more. Bring run-items like the Catnip Bomb, Laser Pointer, and Milk Bowl to bail yourself out of a tight board. Chain match triggers into board modifiers into stacking passives until one swap erupts across the whole grid.

Fight through the waves... and the bosses!

Enemies telegraph their next hit so you can plan your swaps. Survive far enough and you'll face a boss every fifth wave that puts your whole build to the test.

~Pull the Pawcha~

Earn Cosmic Shards from bosses and spend them on the Pawcha to collect cosmic relics.

Vampire Fang, Glass Cannon, Midas Paw, Berserker Bell, Twin Souls, Cosmic Overload and more. Equip up to three on a hero to bend a run in your favor.

Grow between runs

Bank Star Catnip and invest it in the Cosmic Tree. a global talent tree plus a tree for each hero to carry permanent power into your next attempt. Every loss makes the next run stronger.

Or just relax

Flip on Peaceful Mode for an endless, no-combat, no-pressure board and chase a personal-best high score.

Features

• Roguelite match-3 with escalating, run-based difficulty

• 4 playable heroes, each with a unique perk and special ability

• Dozens of stacking upgrades, run-items, and collectible relics

• The Pawcha relic collection + a two-layer Cosmic Tree talent system

• Boss encounters every five waves

• A relaxed, endless Peaceful Mode for score-chasing

• Colorblind symbols, reduce-flashes, screen-shake and volume options

• Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves

Swap cats. Stack relics. Save the cosmos. Then do it all again.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The visual art in Cat 3. The cat sprites, enemies, icons, relic, UI art, and the store/marketing images were created with the help of generative AI tools. I'm a solo developer and a programmer at heart: I can't draw, so I set up a local pixel-art generation pipeline to make the game's artwork. No AI-generated content is produced during gameplay.