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Dawn is a young cat that’s faced significant hardships in their life. Abandoned at a shelter, their luck changes when adopted by an elderly woman named Olive to be her companion – and for the first time in a long while, things might start looking up for Dawn! Safe shelter, food security, friendship, Dawn could get used to this! Things change however when you find out your name was taken from someone else, and you were adopted because Olive’s first cat, the original Dawn, looked just like you but ran away a week ago. You were a replacement, and when the original Dawn comes back, things get a bit complicated.
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3-5 hours to complete, Copycat is a linear simulator that focuses less on gameplay and more on the story as it attempts to make an emotional impact. Objectively, it’s not a bad game, especially for an indie group; the writing is without errors and the voiced narration is well done. However, the middle and end of the story is fumbled pretty terribly, the game tries to deliver an emotional story but ends up feeling shallow and honestly kind of irritating. The narrator is antagonistic and railroads you into doing aggressive actions without the player understanding why until the end of the game when you learn the cat’s backstory, and does it’s best to make you sympathize with Olive, Dawn’s owner, when by the end of the game, you’ll probably hate her. Upon losing her cat, she adopts another one, when her cat comes back, she accidentally kicks you out of the house. When she realizes she has two cats, she drives far, far away out into a forested area and abandons you there instead of returning you to the shelter, and the good end is making your way back to her and forgiving that action. To sum up the spoiler to those who don’t want to be spoiled, neither Olive or her daughter Mae should ever own an animal. Copycat is a game that tries to be bittersweet, but in the end, it’s just bitter. If you like cats, this game will probably upset you.
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Amazing game! Really impressive that this was developed by just 2 people and it's their very first published game! Great narrative and music :) I love short narrative game experiences, and this one was great!

This game broke me!

It’s an emotional rollercoaster but it’s worth every second of it.

I usually play indie horror so I thought I would try this for a change of pace and didn’t expect what i got. It make me cry 3 times, I plan to go back though it to get all achievements.

I played through in one sitting on my steam deck and it ran perfectly. The game guides you through it so it’s not difficult to find where you are supposed to be.

For their first game this is pretty impressive, I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.