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Zappy Cats

Cats with lasers! Claw, jump, and shoot your way through fantastic and dangerous lands to defeat your enemies and recover what they stole. Explore your home town, meet the locals, and discover portals to new lands.

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Franklin's Chair Games
Publisher
Franklin's Chair Games
Release
February 9, 2026
174 days ago
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About the Game

Calling all zappy cats! Your laser powers are needed to save Biscuit's Bakery! Claw, jump, and shoot your way through fantastic and dangerous lands to defeat your enemies and recover what they stole. Explore your home town, meet the locals, and discover portals to new lands. 

Start your journey by choosing your fur and laser color. New unique fur colors can be unlocked throughout the world, so be sure to keep a lookout. You can change your fur and laser color at any time!

A quick tutorial will teach you all you need to know to make your way through the game. 

Be sure to take a break every now and then to snap some photos of your journey! Photo Mode gives you free camera movement within a range of your cat, as well as camera zoom and roll abilities. Try it out and see what sorts of unique pictures you can take!

Any picture you take will be accessible in the Photo Album. Here you can view, favorite, and delete each image. 

Zappy Cats is the first title from Franklin's Chair Games. It was built over the course of 14 months by a single developer with no budget and a lot of passion! Everything in the game with the exception of the rocks, trees, texture images, and some sound effects were hand made with lots of love. We hope you enjoy playing it as much (or ideally more) fun as we had creating it! Enjoy!

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