Hidden Cats in Paris

Hidden Cats in Paris is a hidden object game in which hundreds of cats and other items hide in a large drawing of the French capital. Each animal you find brings colour to the initially black-and-white city image.

Instead of time pressure or combat, careful looking and spotting small details set the pace. Additional tasks and unlockable locations keep you busy even after the first search.

Hidden Cats in Paris was released on March 31, 2022 for PC. The console versions followed in June 2024: Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on June 12, and Nintendo Switch on June 13.

The console versions were published by Silesia Games. The original PC version comes from Nukearts Studio.

Hidden Cats in Paris is available for Windows and macOS, as well as Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One. The Xbox One version can also be played on Xbox Series X|S, but it does not have a separately listed native Xbox Series version.

All console versions are designed for single player. On Nintendo Switch, TV, tabletop and handheld mode, as well as cloud saves via Nintendo Switch Online, are supported.

The main location is a large, hand-drawn view of Paris. Cats hide on roofs, in front of buildings and in inconspicuous spots in the illustration. Once a cat is found, the surroundings gain more colour.

In normal mode, 100 cats are in fixed positions and three hints help with the search. Advanced mode spreads 150 cats across partly changing positions and adds special animals and people that unlock further tasks.

On Windows, Hidden Cats in Paris requires at least Windows 10, a dual-core processor at 2.3 GHz, 4 GB RAM and an Intel HD 4000 graphics unit. Steam lists around 720 MB of free storage.

On Mac, macOS 12 or newer with an Intel Core i5 processor and 4 GB RAM is listed.

In advanced mode, eight special cats and 16 city residents are hidden. Finding them unlocks additional locations and hints.

The six bonus images include a bakery, the catacombs, a patisserie, a cabaret, the Louvre and Versailles. Each of these locations contains more hidden kittens. In total, Nukearts names more than 680 hidden objects.

The PC version offers full controller support and several aids for searching the image. These include a dark mode, a colour blindness mode, reverse zoom with the mouse wheel and sensitivity settings for panning the view.

Scrolling at the screen edge is also possible. On Nintendo Switch, you can search the illustrations in TV, tabletop and handheld mode.

The Nintendo Switch and PlayStation versions offer German, English, French, Spanish and Japanese on-screen text, among others. The original Steam version lists English as its supported language.

The game is built around picture searching. The illustrations and hints therefore remain understandable even apart from longer dialogue.

For the PC version there is a separately available digital coloring book with poster as a PDF. It adds printable templates to the game and is not an additional playable city map.