About This Game

Welcome to Animal Town. From the moment you press Focus, the adorable animals here will gently turn your time into a song.

♪ Story

Animal Town isn’t a world waiting to be saved—the world is already just fine. You’re simply here to settle in and get your own things done.

During the day, everyone keeps busy: Fox flips pans in the kitchen, Rabbit tends the carrot farm, Hamster’s nut shop always smells warm, Penguin writes poems for every scoop of ice cream, Raccoon turns old drums into treasures, and Owl runs the library. When night falls and the town’s lights come on one by one, you take your usual seat in the jazz bar and begin focusing, while the band plays just for you.

Each cat musician has their own past. Their stories aren’t a single main quest, but twenty short chapters of growth: how they came to town, picked up an instrument, found their place, faced their past, and ultimately decided to stay. The closer you become, the more complete these twenty chapters feel.

♥ Character Bonds

From First Meeting to Kindred Spirits

Saxophonist Ginger, Bassist Inkdrop, Pianist Snowball, and Drummer Xuanye—each with a distinct personality and even their own way of speaking.

Bond levels progress through First Meeting, Getting Closer, and Kindred Spirits. The closer you are, the differently they’ll talk to you.

• Give them dried fish, yarn balls, or catnip, or simply focus quietly beside them—your bond will grow either way.

• Each time your bond levels up, they’ll share a line meant only for you.

• Each cat has 5 chapters, 20 chapters in total, unlocking gradually as your bond deepens.

✦ Goals & Challenges

There’s no final boss, no winning or losing. The only real challenges are your attention and your honesty.

Your goals:

• Raise your Focus Level from Lv.1 to Lv.6 using real focused time, unlocking the Town Library and the Forest Stream. The full release will add even more areas.

• Bring all four cats from First Meeting to Kindred Spirits and hear all twenty chapters of their stories.

• Press Gold Records, collect achievement badges, and light up cat figurines as you progress.

Daily goals include focusing for 15 minutes and giving one gift. Advanced challenges include the 60-minute “Marathon,” the “Seven-Day Jam” streak, and the Jazz Bar “Hall of Fame” for accumulating 50 hours—each badge representing time you truly lived.

◎ Gameplay

Experience points and Notes ♪ come only from real focus: 10 XP and 1 ♪ per minute, with bonus rewards on completion. There are no shortcuts, and you can’t fool the system.

• Notes ♪ are the town’s currency, saved to exchange for gifts from the cats.

• To-do lists, habit tracking, daily tasks, and login rewards.

• A 60-day focus heatmap, 7-day bar chart, and streak counter turn your time into something you can see.

• Collection Room: every 10 hours of focus presses one Gold Record, with achievement badges and cat figurines lighting up as you progress.

• Freely set sessions from 5 to 360 minutes, and start or end with a single press of the Space bar.

☀ Playtime

Focus sessions can last anywhere from 5 minutes to 6 hours. Start and stop whenever you like.

In the demo, the progression line takes about 2.5 hours of real focus to complete, capped at Lv.6. But Animal Town is meant to be measured in real days: daily tasks reset at midnight, the 60-day heatmap can hold two months of your time, and the Hall of Fame asks for 50 hours in the jazz bar. It feels less like something you beat, and more like something you keep in your life.

About the Free Demo

The demo includes 3 scenes, all core tools and systems, and all 20 cat story chapters, with progression capped at Lv.6.

The full release plans to add the Town Café, the Seaside, and Under the Stars, along with four new companions and more content. Demo progress will carry over fully to the full version.

If Animal Town makes you want to sit a little longer, add it to your Steam Wishlist—the cats have already saved you a seat by the stage.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Under the guidance of the developer, AI technology was used to generate some images and music.