Hidden cat games
Eleven games where the whole job is finding cats that don’t want to be found.
- 11 games
- One of them mine
- Prices checked 8 Nov 2026
Hidden cat games have quietly become their own little genre. Somebody draws a huge, busy picture, tucks a hundred cats into it, and you go looking. It sounds like nothing, and then it’s midnight and you’re zoomed right into a drainpipe because you’re sure there’s a tail there.
Here are eleven. Some are free on Android and iPhone, some cost about a pound on PC, and a couple are proper little adventures that happen to be full of cats. If you’d rather hunt for people and things as well as cats, I did a separate list of games like Where’s Waldo.
One of them is mine. It’s at the top because this is my website and I’m allowed, but it’s labelled, and the rest are on here on merit.
If you only read one bit
- Free on PC Travellin Cats in Paris You want to try the genre on PC for nothing
- Free on phones Find The Cat You want a free hidden cat game on your phone
- Biggest adventure A Castle Full of Cats You want a hidden cat game with a map and a story
- Android, no ads Cats Hidden in Italy You want a tiny Android game with no ads at all
I made this one, so I’m biased
1. Purr & Seek
Pomo Games (me)
- iOS
- Android
Price Free, with ads and in-app purchases
Pick it if you want to look for one cat, not a hundred.
I made this one, so I’m not the most neutral judge. Most hidden cat games give you a hundred cats and let you mop them up. Purr & Seek does the opposite: every level hides lots of cats, and you’re after one particular cat. You get a picture of who you’re looking for, then you have to find that cat among all the others in a busy, colourful scene.
Pick the wrong cat and you lose a heart, and you only have three. There are 60 places to visit, five times each, so 300 levels, plus a daily search and a sticker journal with over 400 cats to collect. It’s free, with ads. If you want to try it without installing anything, there’s a free find-the-cat puzzle on this site every Monday.
Free on PC
2. Travellin Cats in Paris
Travellin Cats
- PC
Price Free on Steam. Extra levels to buy
Pick it if you want to try the genre on PC for nothing.
One enormous hand-drawn Paris and a hundred cats hidden in it. You click a cat when you spot one, and when you’re properly stuck there’s a hint. Once you’ve found them all you can go back against a timer and see where you land on the leaderboard. It’s free, it has thousands of very positive reviews on Steam, and it’s the easiest way to find out whether this sort of game is for you.
Free on phones
3. Find The Cat
Agave Games
- iOS
- Android
Price Free, with ads and in-app purchases
Pick it if you want a free hidden cat game on your phone.
The big one on phones, with over ten million downloads on Android alone. The scenes are black-and-white drawings of towns and cities around the world, so the cats blend right in, and you tap them until you hit the level’s target. There’s a daily level in colour, and new levels keep coming. If you search the Play Store for a hidden cat game, this is what you’ll find first, and it deserves it.
5. A Building Full of Cats
Devcats
- PC
- Switch
Price £2.45 on Steam, £2.49 on Switch
Pick it if you want to pet every single cat.
You’re not just finding the cats, you’re petting them. There are over 360 of them across a building of six floors, some sat in plain sight and some very well hidden, plus a few secret ones. It’s the game that started the Devcats “Full of Cats” series, it costs about the same as a coffee, and nearly everyone who’s reviewed it on Steam liked it.
6. Detective Mio
1N1
- iOS
- Android
Price Free, with ads
Pick it if you want the scenes to fight back a bit.
Mio is a cat detective, and each case comes with a client and a cartoon scene that hides animals, plenty of them cats. The twist is that some of them won’t show up from tapping. You have to move things, swipe or even tip your phone, and finding everything completes the picture. It was in the top 20 of Google’s Indie Games Festival in 2021, and it works offline.
Biggest adventure
7. A Castle Full of Cats
Devcats
- PC
- Linux
- Switch
Price £3.30 on Steam, £3.49 on Switch
Pick it if you want a hidden cat game with a map and a story.
The same studio as A Building Full of Cats, but much bigger, and laid out like an adventure. A curse has turned the castle’s cats into shadowy creatures, and you wander room to room finding keys, taking other paths and rescuing over 600 cats, about a hundred of them properly hidden. If the single-picture games feel a bit flat after a while, this is the fix.
8. Find The Cat 2
Agave Games
- iOS
- Android
Price Free, with ads and in-app purchases
Pick it if you’ve run out of the first one.
The sequel swaps the black-and-white drawings for full colour, which sounds easier but isn’t. With more going on in every scene, the cats have more to hide behind. All the levels are new. It’s called Find The Cat 2 - Spot It! on both stores.
9. Travellin Cats Around the World
Travellin Cats
- PC
- Switch
Price £3.99 on Steam (Around the World 2 is £4.29). £13.49 on Switch as Cats Hidden Around the World
Pick it if you finished Paris and want a lot more.
Twenty cities and 2,000 cats, from the people behind the free Paris one. You can change the background and cat colours and the brightness, which helps more than you’d think after an hour of squinting, and there’s a night mode. A second volume adds twenty more places. The Switch version has 40 places and 4,000 cats in one.
10. A Building Full of Cats 2
Devcats
- PC
- Android
Price £5.89 on Steam, £3.39 on Android (plus in-app purchases)
Pick it if you’re on Android and want something bigger than a single picture.
The biggest Devcats game, with over 2,000 cats, a building full of odd residents who give you little side quests, hidden rooms and some mini-games. It’s also the only one of their games on phones, but only on Android, so iPhone owners will have to go without for now.
Free hidden cat games
On PC, Travellin Cats in Paris is free outright. On phones, Find The Cat, Find The Cat 2, Detective Mio and my Purr & Seek are all free to download, and all have ads. If you want a hidden cat game on Android with no ads at all, Cats Hidden in Italy costs 89p and that’s the end of it.
How I picked these
Every game here is mostly about finding cats. I left out general hidden object games that only have the odd cat in them (those are on the Where’s Waldo list), and a couple of Steam games with “cat” in the title that turned out to be platformers.
I checked every platform, price and link against the official store pages on 8 November 2026. Prices change and games get pulled, so if something here is wrong, tell me on the contact page.
Questions
What is the best free hidden cat game?
On PC, Travellin Cats in Paris, which is free on Steam. On phones, Find The Cat is the most popular by a long way. Both are a good place to start.
Is there a hidden cat game for Android without ads?
Cats Hidden in Italy costs £0.89 on Google Play and lists no ads or in-app purchases. A Building Full of Cats 2 is a paid Android game too, though it does have in-app purchases.
Are there hidden cat games on Nintendo Switch?
Plenty: the Devcats “Full of Cats” games, the Hidden Cats city games by Nukearts, and Cats Hidden Around the World all have Switch versions.
Can I play a hidden cat game in my browser?
Yes. There’s a free find-the-cat puzzle on this site, a new scene every Monday, taken from my game Purr & Seek.
Purr & Seek
Lots of cats, one you’re after. Find the right cat in 300 busy scenes, keep your three hearts, and fill a sticker journal with over 400 cats. Free on iPhone, iPad and Android.
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