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If you already had The Cat and the Coup in your Steam library, you might have noticed a significant update. Last year we remastered it in 4K. Everything is re-coded, the sound and music are updated, and the art/world is significantly embellished. Indeed, we released this remaster
When is a bad game not a bad game? When it inadvertently nudges you towards a good game. I began this week playing a very weak HAWX like coded in Tehran and, via some connected Wikipedia delving and Steam sifting, ended it playing a powerful adventure game set during the Iranian
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Politics and puzzles. Art and animation. Cats and coups. A little bit of little-discussed history that’s all too relevant to what’s happening right now. …
Rehearsals and Return is the new game from (primarily) Peter Brinson, creator of the remarkable art/history/politics vignette The Cat & The Coup . This shares a certain cut-up appearance and a maudlin tone (well, depending on how you approach it), but it’s a rudimentary platf
Politics is boring. It’s not politics’ fault that he’s boring, that’s just the way he is. If variety is the spice rack of life, politics is nutmeg. Completely unremarkable and dull to your average teenager, until you mention the fact that it caused a few wars. In large enough dos
I was going to treat this as a Wot I Think, but sometimes you meet a game that just isn’t at all suited to any kind of verdict like that. There’s plenty I could probably find to moan about if I put my critic’s hat on, but what a futile endeavour that would be. The Cat And The Cou
The Cat and the Coup is a free documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. It plays like a simple physics puzzle game, it looks like a storybook with artwork inspired by Persian miniatures, it feat
2011 IGF Finalist The Cat and the Coup is now available for free on Steam. The Cat and the Coup is a documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup