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The Cat Lady

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This page is for the adventure game. For the unrelated action game, see Cat Lady. For the unrelated card game, see Cat Lady - The Card Game.

The Cat Lady
The Cat Lady cover
Developers
Harvester Games
Publishers
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Engines
Adventure Game Studio[Note 1]
Release dates
Windows December 1, 2012
Linux April 20, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 81
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Side view, Scrolling
Controls Direct control, Menu-based
Genres Adventure
Art styles Stylized
Themes Horror, Supernatural, Contemporary, Europe
Series Devil Came through Here
The Cat Lady on HowLongToBeat
The Cat Lady on IGDB
The Cat Lady on MobyGames
The Cat Lady on Wikipedia
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Lorelai 2019

The Cat Lady is a singleplayer side view and scrolling adventure game in the Devil Came through Here series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
StarForce 5 DRM. Rare release.
Windows
Publisher website
DRM-free
Option of Steam key for higher price.
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Windows
GamersGate
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
DRM-free
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Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
DRM-free when launched directly from executable.[2]
Windows
A demo is available from the publisher website.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\The Cat Lady\acsetup.cfg
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\The Cat Lady - Steam\acsetup.cfg
Linux <path-to-game>/acsetup.cfg
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/253110/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\The Cat Lady\agssave.*
%USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Cat Lady\agssave.*
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\The Cat Lady - Steam\agssave.*
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/ags/Cat Lady/
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/253110/pfx/[Note 2]
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud
ScummVM 2.1+ supports cloud saves on third-party cloud storage services. See the ScummVM documentation for details.

Video

External options menu (Windows only).
External options menu (Windows only).
In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Game displays at 4:3 static aspect or with integer scaling, depending on settings.
Renders at 800x600 which is then scaled with either nearest-neighbor or linear interpolation.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Press Alt+ Enter to toggle.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 40 FPS.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse is unsupported.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
DirectDraw 5 Labeled Software renderer in winsetup.exe.
OpenGL
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB
Video card (GPU) DirectX 9.0 compatible
Sound (audio device) DirectX compatible
Linux
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) Debian 7
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 2 GB


Notes

  1. Adventure Game Studio engine build: 3.4.1.11[1]
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/253110/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (253110) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-06-28
  2. Verified by User:Baronsmoki on 2022-07-15