Cat Adventure begins when you wake up one morning as a cat, and begin to explore this new perspective of life. You get up and analyze both yourself and your surroundings. Rather than freaking out because you’re a cat, you are instead excited to take on this new form. You’re happy to escape your responsibilities and live it up instead.
Once you get off of your bed, you walk around the room you’re in and have the option to either jump on the sofa, or walk over to the other side of the room. If you jump on the sofa you can look out the window, and yearn for the great outdoors as you admire the beauty of the sunrise. You wish to feel the grass under your feet, and the wind in your fur. Your options afterward are either to go explore the room as could be done earlier, or proceed down a hallway you see. If you choose to go back and explore the room, you notice a cat tree. Here you have a choice of three different options: you can claw at the scratching post, climb to the top and observe the room from new heights, or jump into a carpeted house and take a nap. If you choose to go to the scratching post, you release your energy and find how good it feels to sharpen your claws. If you climb to the top of the tree, you get to feel what it’s like to be the same height as a human again. Finally, if you decide to take a nap, you see just how much sleep the life of a cat entails. Regardless of what option you select, you end up going back to the room, and then making your way over to the hallway.
You walk down the hallway, eventually reaching the kitchen. You walk around and find your food bowl, noticing that it’s empty. Right after this, you hear a noise coming from above you, and you hear footsteps. You draw the conclusion that this house has a second floor, and that your owner is coming downstairs. Your owner comes into the kitchen, and you analyze them, wondering what you should do and how to react. Here you get to choose whether you play with your owner and show affection, or run under the kitchen table and hide. Either way, your owner ends up putting food in your bowl and leaving the room. You go and eat your food, and once you’ve finished, your owner comes back into the kitchen and opens a door leading outside. You see your chance and you make a run for it. Before your owner has the chance to stop you and close the door, you dart out through the crack and into the outdoors. Once you’re outside, you must choose whether to turn left or right, which takes you on two different paths with varying conflicts to face.
If you turn left, your exploration of the streets is interrupted by a big dog. The dog sees you and starts chasing you, and you are again faced with a decision of what the best course of action would be. You can either run straight home and get away relatively easily, or you can run and hide in the nearest bush. From within the bush you would wait out the dog for a couple of hours – just to be safe – and head back home. If you make a right immediately from the doorway, you run into a family on the street: a child and their parents. They are all excited to see you, and the child approaches you to pick you up. You have the option of either scratching the child, or letting them pick you up. If you scratch the child, then your owner hears the screaming and crying coming from outside and comes to bring you back into the house. If you allow the child to pick you up, then they start carrying you away to take you home. After a while of struggling, you squirm your way out of their arms and run off, again returning back to your house. Regardless of which course of action you take, you end up back home in your bed, with the realization that a quiet day in at home beats the craziness of the outside world. You are thankful to be home and enjoying the simple things in life, like admiring the beautiful view out of a giant window from the safety of your own place.
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