The peculiar free game where a cat hits your taskbar every time you use the keyboard or mouse has become a phenomenon in Steam, with thousands of players and merchant objects.
Every year in Steam, the popular PC game store, a multitude of unexpected successes, such as the recent Schedule ia drug trafficker simulator that is sweeping in recent weeks, or the game we are going to talk about today, a much more peculiar phenomenon: Bongo Cat.
Available from March 5 in format free-to-play, Bongo Cat He managed to reach 134,411 simultaneous players this last Sunday, a figure for many large blockbusters to already want. And not only that, since it also has “extremely positive” reviews by users. However, for those who run for the first time with this phenomenon, the question is inevitable: What exactly is this game about?
A cat that blow your taskbar every time you perform an action on the computer
The official description in Steam does not offer many clues about what the game is like: “Bongo Cat needs your help. Bongo Cat needs more hats! Every time you press a key, Bongo Cand hits your taskbar. Write, click, play and work to win points. What hats will you find? “
All this can remember Bananathe game that went viral last year and that led to over 900,000 simultaneous players. In that title, the players simply click on a banana, won “skins” of banana as a reward and then could trade with them in the Steam market.
Bongo Cat Take that same formula and adapts it to your own style. Instead of a fruit, there is A cat that responds with a pat on the taskbar every time you interact with the computer. Whether you are writing, clicking or simply working, Each action adds points. As you play, you can unlock new cats, hats and decorative objects such as emotions and floating icons.
But what is the real objective of the game? The truth is that there is no traditional “goal.” As indicated by your Steam page, Bongo Cat It is designed as A kind of digital partner while you work. What makes it attractive to so many users is, to a large extent, its rewards system: the objects obtained are classified by rarity, from common to legendary, and They can be exchanged or sold in the Steam marketwhich opens the door to possible economic benefits.
So you could define Bongo Cat as A mixture of virtual pet and passive collecting platform With a touch of absurd humor, a new viral phenomenon in Steam that we will see if it continues to gain popularity in the coming weeks. Is still far from the numbers that reached Bananathat still has the tenth best historical figure in the Valve store, but you never know.
