Do NOT Take This Cat Home

Do NOT Take This Cat Home opens with the kind of choice that sounds harmless in any other game, take in a stray cat, and uses that low-stakes framing deliberately: the horror here builds from how ordinary the first few decisions feel before the story starts pulling apart.

With dozens of endings branching from small early choices, a single kind or careless decision made without a second thought can lock in a story path you won't notice until several scenes later, which makes this a game better suited to slow, deliberate reading than to clicking through dialogue quickly. Reaching more than one or two endings on a first playthrough is unlikely by design, revisiting earlier choices with the opposite instinct is really how the fuller picture comes together. Class of '09 runs a similarly branching, consequence-heavy narrative in a very different setting.