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A Wild Catgirl Appears!

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.

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January 4, 2016
10 years and 213 days ago
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Mixed282 reviews56.4%

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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!

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