please DO NOT the cat

Submission for JS13K 2025: Black Cat

Also at https://black.mcteamster.com

About

please DO NOT the cat is a roguelike, text-based, idle/clicker game.

Get cats to unlock new skills and spend cats to upgrade them.

There are 13 to unlock in total - how far can you get?

Skills / Achievements

✋ Hands

• Unlock: Reach 110 cats
• Type: Base
• Effect: +1 Base

❎ Times

• Unlock: Reach 1000 cats
• Type: Mult
• Effect: +0.1x Mult

📈 Grow

• Unlock: Reach 10000 cats
• Type: Interest
• Effect: +0.01% Interest

🏭 Factory

• Unlock: Reach Level 10000 Hands
• Type: Base
• Effect: 2x Base

🎬 Media

• Unlock: Reach Level 1000 Times
• Type: Mult
• Effect: 2x Mult

🏥 Vets

• Unlock: Reach Level 100 Grow
• Type: Interest
• Effect: +1% Interest

🌿 Catnip

• Unlock: Reach Megacat Boss
• Type: Cooldown
• Effect: Trigger 1000 clicks in a burst, 15 second cooldown

💰 Payday

• Unlock: Pass Gigacat Boss
• Type: Passive
• Effect: Start with 10x extra cats per unlocked skill

🚩 War

• Unlock: Pass Teracat Boss
• Type: Passive
• Effect: Start with 1000 Base and 10x Mult per unlocked skill. All costs and cooldowns doubled

🪦 Nekro

• Unlock: Pass Petacat Boss
• Type: Passive
• Effect: 5% off all purchases and cooldowns per unlocked skill

🚀 Space

• Unlock: Pass Exacat Boss
• Type: Cooldown
• Effect: Give 100x original balance after 1 minute

✨ Anti-Catter

• Unlock: Reach Infinity
• Type: Cooldown
• Effect: Double or nothing. Odds of doubling increase with every playthrough.

⚙️ Auto

• Unlock: DO NOT the cat (20 seconds AFK on a new playthrough)
• Type: Toggle
• Effect: 5 clicks per second for every unlocked skill

Credits

Sound effect remixed from Kitten Meow by Mike Koenig under Attribution 3.0 License