Game Info
Year
2026
Players
1
Age
14+
Playtime
15 min
Complexity
1/5
Collection
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Description
An eighteen card solo game where a witch manages a magical lab while a cursed familiar spawns monsters
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Where There's A Wilz, There's a Play Review at 0:31 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Interesting puzzle
- Great artwork and style
- Appealing to keep an eye on for the campaign
Cons
- Ambiguity in the rule for discarding cards from the spell book vs. spell cards.
Thematic elements
- Mischievous cat casts a spell, unlocking monsters into your lab that need to be gotten rid of via a portal.
- Your lab
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Players draw spell cards and monster cards.
- Hand Management — Players use spell cards to manipulate monsters.
- Set Collection — The goal is to get all monsters into the portal column.
- Spatial Puzzle — Relocating monsters between columns based on their numerical values and column heights.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is an interesting puzzle.
- Love the art.
- Really great artwork on this.
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Totally Tabled Rules Teach at 0:00 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Successfully banishing all monsters is a win condition.
- The game offers different difficulty levels (medium and hard).
- Spell cards offer interesting strategic choices and can alter gameplay rules (e.g., reverse gravity).
Cons
- Running out of magical spells (cards) can lead to losing.
- Some spell effects might not be usable if the conditions aren't met (e.g., 'whirlwind' requires two columns of equal height).
Thematic elements
- Banishing monsters summoned by a cursed cat
- laboratory
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Action Point Allowance System — Players may perform up to two relocations at the beginning of their turn, and must then play one spell card.
- Hand Management — Players manage a hand of spell cards, choosing which ones to play and when, with the choice of spell affecting subsequent actions.
- Set Collection — The goal is to move all monster cards into the 'portal column' to win.
- Set Up / Tableau Building — The initial setup involves dealing cards into specific columns ('lab', 'spell book', 'portal') and arranging them in descending order.
- Stacking — Monsters are placed on top of each other in columns, with rules dictating placement based on numerical order or specific spell effects.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The Cursed Cat is the 11th game in the Simply Solo line by designer Scott Alms.
- The publisher, Buttonshy Games, plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign starting on August 11th as part of the Buttonshy Micro Games summer 2026 collection.
- When you play a spell and not use the effect because either I couldn't or I didn't want to, then I'd only get to do one relocation at most.
- Reverse gravity. This says to reverse the size rule. In other words, do not relocate onto larger monsters.
- Whirlwind. It says swap two columns of equal height. I don't have two columns of equal height. So that means I failed to do that spell.
- Levitate is choose a column with two or more monsters. Move that monster's bottom monster to the top.
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Tabletop Tokki Rules Teach at 0:06 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Easy to pick up and very quick to play once you know the cards.
- Quick and clean and streamlined gameplay.
- Enjoyable puzzle of rearranging things.
- Challenging initial playthroughs with variability.
- Streamlined rules and mechanics.
Cons
- Found first few playthroughs quite challenging.
- Didn't pick up on strategy immediately.
- Didn't do so well on easy mode initially.
Thematic elements
- Shuffling monsters into a portal after a cat accidentally cast spells
Comparison games
- Tower of Hanoi
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — Dealing three spells face up, and discarding one for medium difficulty.
- Hand Management — Casting spells from a hand of three, which do not refill.
- Pattern Building — Relocating monsters onto new columns following size rules (smaller on larger or empty slots).
- Set Collection — Attempting to shuffle all monsters into the portal.
- Variable player powers — Different spells offer unique abilities like removing monsters, moving them, or swapping them.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- It's been a long time since I've had a solo game, even a micro game that has felt this quick and clean and streamlined that I can play in just a couple of minutes.
- I do really like the puzzle of trying to rearrange things.
- I definitely found my first few playthroughs to be quite challenging.
- Overall, if you're looking for a very quick and concise solo game with streamlined rules and mechanics, I would definitely check out The Cursed Cat.
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DaniCha Rules Teach at 0:05 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Fun puzzle
- Different game every time
- Quick to learn and play
- Easy to bring and play anywhere
Cons
- Spells can be tough to complete
- Can lose if you run out of cards or cannot complete spells
- Losing a relocation penalty if a spell cannot be completed
Thematic elements
- Monsters and spells
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Drafting — You draw three cards into your hand and these will be the spells.
- Hand Management — You don't actually refill your hand. So you do have to kind of be smart about how many cards you're going to use from your hand because then that kind of dwindles down the amount of spells available to be used on your turns.
- Set Collection — The way to win the game is if every monster that's in your player play area is in the portal.
- Solo Play — This is a solo game designed by Scott Alms
- Variable player powers — You get to cast a spell... you'll either play one of your spells in your hand.
Video topics + discussion points
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Quotes (from this video)
- Hi everyone, Danielle here.
- Um, so keep in mind this is this is a prototype. Things are subject to change.
- So, that's how we win. We will lose the game if we run out of cards in our hand and the deck.
- So, it's probably best to try to describe something that has a lower value.
- So, I guess I could discard.
- Definitely don't have the cards where I need them.
- But in an ideal world, I would have had these three monsters in the portal and that's how you would win the game.
- All right. Right. Well, I hope you enjoyed this uh quick playrough of The Cursed Cat.
- All right, thanks so much for watching. Bye.
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