Cosy Kitty Cafe

A little chat room for friends co-working from home as cats. Hang out in a cosy tea house with chat, voice and video calls, and focus timers to work through together. Share a link and you’re in, with no account or download.

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Getting in

No account: Press “Enter the tea house” and you arrive in the public room as a random cat, ready to dress up inside.
Private rooms: Make your own tea room with a link to share. Invite copies the link for you.
Room size: Up to 50 cats per room. When one fills up, newcomers go to an overflow room.
Remembered: Your name and look are saved, so next time it’s just “Coming back as…” and one click.
Dozing: Leave the tab alone and your cat dozes off. “Wake up” brings you back. When the game is updated, a note says the tea house was redecorated and asks you to refresh.

Chat

Open anywhere: Enter, T or / opens chat. Messages float over the room and show as speech bubbles of up to 280 characters, with a typing indicator.
Tabs: All, Room, Party and Focus tabs, plus a tab for each whisper conversation.
Commands: /me, /w to whisper, /r to reply, /name, /focus, /map, /vote, /photo, /album and /help.
Mentions: Get a notification when someone says your name.

Voice and video

Proximity voice: Voice works in every room and gets quieter the further away a cat is, with up to 8 voices at once.
Cameras: In private rooms, turn your camera on and a round video bubble floats over your cat. Up to 4 cameras at a time.
Controls: Mic, push to talk on V, camera, deafen, and mute for any one cat.
Devices: Pick your microphone, speakers and camera in Settings.

Two cats in a private room, each with a webcam bubble above them, and the mic and camera buttons on

Focus timer

Work together: Start a focus timer with 25/5 or 50/10, or set 5 to 90 minutes of work, 1 to 30 minutes of break, and 1 to 12 rounds.
Join in: Up to 50 cats can join one timer, with Join, Leave, Skip and Stop.
Quiet chat: Chat from focusing cats goes to the Focus tab, and focusing cats can’t be swatted.

Cats focusing together with the timer counting down — Focusing together

Friends

Friend codes: Every cat has a code like MOCHI-7K2Q to share, or add a friend straight from their cat menu.
Friends list: Up to 100 friends, with who’s online, which room they’re in, and a button to join them.
Letters and invites: Leave a letter for a friend who’s away. It waits up to a week. You can also invite friends to your room.
Move to another device: Carry your cat and friends to another device with a QR code or link.
People: See everyone in the room. The cat menu has Together, Whisper, Invite to party, Add friend, Mute and Block.

A friend request arriving from another cat — A friend request

The friends list showing friends online and the rooms they’re in — The friends list

The people list with options to mute or block a cat — People in the room

Expressions

33 expressions: 13 faces, 16 actions and 6 together actions like hugs and high fives.
Wheel and hotbar: Q opens the expression wheel. Keys 1 to 0 are hotbar slots you can fill with your favourites.
Together actions: Ask another cat for a hug and they get 10 seconds to accept. Then both cats play it together.
Slash commands: Every expression has a slash command with aliases, like /dance or /blush, and Tab autocompletes.
Faces from chat: Typing :) or lol in chat makes your cat smile or laugh. It can be turned off.
Seen by everyone: An icon pops up over your head so others see it too.

The expression wheel open around a cat, with faces and actions — The expression wheel

Another player’s view of a cat blushing — A blush, as another cat sees it

A cat dancing in the tea house — Dancing

Chat with slash command suggestions for expressions — Slash commands with autocomplete

A prompt asking another cat to accept a hug — Asking for a hug

Photos

Say cheese: C or /photo starts a 3 second countdown, then takes a photo of up to 20 cats with a caption of up to 60 characters. One photo every 30 seconds.
Album: L opens the room’s album with the newest 60 photos.
On the wall: Hang a photo in a frame: two in the Tea House and one in the Tatami Room. In public rooms a hung photo stays up for at least 10 minutes.

The Say cheese countdown over a group of cats — Say cheese!

A photo of cats with a caption — The photo

A photo hung in a frame on the tea house wall — Hung on the wall

Music

10 tracks: Tea time, Rainy window, Music box, Garden party, Koto by the window, Steam and shamisen, Rooftop jazz, Quiet strings, Night market and Campfire guitar.
Gramophone: Every map has a gramophone. Press F next to it to change the record for the room.
Changing the record: Private rooms change at once with a 30 second cooldown. Public rooms hold a 15 second vote with a 5 minute cooldown.
Your own music: Follow the room, pick your own track, or turn music off. Each place also has its own ambient sounds.

The gramophone’s record list — The gramophone

A vote to change the record in a public room — A vote for the next record

Maps

8 places: The Tea House, the Tatami Room, the Hot Springs, the Rooftops, the Library, the Garden, the Night Market and the Campfire.
Private rooms: Pick a map and the room changes at once, with a 2 minute cooldown.
Public rooms: Picking a map starts a 20 second vote. Everyone presses Y or N, and it passes with at least 2 yes votes and more yes than no. 10 minute cooldown.

The map picker listing every place — The map picker

A vote to move the room to the Garden — A vote in a public room

The room moved to the Garden after the vote passed — The vote passed, so everyone’s in the Garden

The places

The Tea House: Where everyone starts: a fireplace, bookshelves and the tea master.
The Tatami Room: Paper screens and a drying pole to hang from.
Hot Springs: Three warm pools to soak in and a cold plunge.
Rooftops: Tiles over the town and a sky bridge to the Library.
Library: A tall climb up the shelves with a book lift.
Garden: A tower, a slide, a pond, bouncy mushrooms and a hammock.
Night Market: Lanterns, stalls and fish to steal.
Campfire: A fire, a tent, a stream, a lookout and marshmallows to toast.

Dress-up

Name: Up to 16 characters.
Coats: 13 coats, including tabby, calico, tuxedo, black, white and pink.
Wear: 29 items across four slots: head, face, shoulders and back. 8 of them are prizes you win from quests.
Dress as: 9 outfits from Frieren that set the coat and every slot in one click.
Live preview: Your cat turns as you try things on, and you can change it all later in Settings.
Idle poses: Cats sit down after 5 seconds of standing still and fall asleep after a minute.

Moving around

Walk and run: Arrow keys or A and D to walk, Shift to run, and a double tap to dash.
Jump: Up, W or Space to jump, again in the air for a double jump. S sits, or crawls while moving, and Down drops through a platform.
Hidden moves: A rocket jump, an air dash and a fast fall for anyone who goes looking.
Terrain: Slopes, ice, bouncy cushions and mushrooms, ropes and ladders to climb with Up, lines to hang from, springs, moving platforms, wind and hazards.
Doors and cats: Press Up at a door to go through and F to use things like the gramophone, signs, the tea master and the bell. Click or tap another cat to open its menu.
Items: E picks up, carries and tosses yarn, mugs, fish, cushions, books, plants, kettles, marshmallows and tea leaves.
Cat to cat: Next to another cat, G grooms, N nuzzles, B boops and P pounces.
Places: Soak in the hot springs, sleep in the tent and toast marshmallows over the campfire.
Shortcuts: Press ? for a sheet of every key.

The keyboard shortcuts sheet listing movement, actions, chat and panels

Play fighting

Swat: X swats a nearby cat, pushing them back with a little hop.
Kept friendly: A second of safety after each hit, no swats while focusing or between blocked cats, and never into a hazard.
Optional: Turn play fighting off in Settings and you can’t be swatted.

One cat swatting another across the room

Jump quests

Climbs: Bookcase Climb, Tower of Yarn, Rooftop Run, Sky Garden, and Sky Garden with no flags for experts.
Timer and flags: A timer starts when you set off. Flags save your place, and Restart sends you back to the start.
Stars: One star for finishing and two for beating the par time.
Prizes: A climbing helmet, a yarn scarf, a rooftop bandana, petal wings and a star halo.
Best times: A sign at the start shows the top 50 times.

Quest doors in the tea house — Quest doors

The start of a jump quest with the best times sign — The start line

A cat climbing during a jump quest with the timer running — Mid climb

Party quest: The Lost Tea Leaves

Parties: Invite up to 3 other cats to a party, then press F at the tea master to set off together.
Six stages: Sorting the pantry, The right jars (a riddle about Sencha, Matcha, Hojicha and Genmaicha), The long shelf, Kettle steam, Quiet hour, and a mimic chest boss with three phases.
Enemies: Dust bunnies, mice and tea cup crabs.
Rewards: A tea leaf hat and a tiny teapot, with best times kept for each party size.

The tea master in the tea house — The tea master

The party panel for The Lost Tea Leaves — Setting off as a party

The first stage, sorting the pantry — Sorting the pantry

Settings

Your cat: Change your name, coat or what you’re wearing.
Toggles: Sounds, faces from chat, play fighting, reduce motion and mention notifications.
Music and voice: Pick music and set up your microphone, speakers and camera.
App: Install it as an app, or move your cat to another device.

On your phone

Touch controls: Buttons for left, down and right, jump, expressions, paw and swat.
Chat: Tap to chat, and the chat stays above the keyboard.
Install: Add Kitty Cafe to your home screen and it opens like an app.

The game on a phone in landscape with touch buttons for moving, jumping, paw and swat