BREAK GAME #0.8 · Push-puzzle
猫倉番：大惨事
Neko Sokoban: CATACLYSM
「ただの猫じゃない」 — Not just a cat.
A top-down puzzle game about being a cat in a neighborhood where furniture slides in the wrong direction. Push pieces in the correct order to reach each objective. Push wrong → instant restart. No people. No explanation. Just cats, Roombas, and Zoomies.
Five houses · street overworld · basement darkness
pixelbean · itch.io PWYW
Title
猫 · 倉番 · 大惨事
猫 Neko — cat. 倉番 Sokōban — warehouse keeper; direct kanji nod to the original Sokoban. 大惨事 Daisanji — great calamity when the sliding goes wrong.
The street is the level select — walk between five houses in real time. Each house is 3–5 rooms in sequence with its own ambient bed and hazard escalation.
Core loop
Slide · fall · Zoomies
Furniture slides until wall or collision — axis rules by shape, chain reactions resolve in order. Surface objects fall when furniture moves; puddles spread, glass shatters permanently.
Roomba patrols push lightweight pieces. Cat contact → Zoomies. Wrong state = unrecoverable = 0.3s restart with a soft mrrp. Three stars per room; ghost replay after first solve.
Five houses
Starter → Chaos
1 · Starter Home
Living → Hallway → Bedroom. No hazards. No Roomba. Forgiving tutorial pacing.
2 · Family Home
Kitchen through bedroom. Puddles, cascades. Roomba docks, activates after 8 moves.
3 · Cramped Apartment
Corridor-heavy. Laundry slide. Roomba active from the start.
4 · Old House
Doily overshoot, glass shards, five rooms + secret. Two Roombas collide and redirect.
5 · Chaos House + basement
Open-plan + basement darkness — see only 3 tiles, navigate by Roomba hum. Completing unlocks permanent street night variant.
Mandatory animation
Knocked something off
Push object off surface → pause → look down → look at camera → look away. Plays every time. The entire marketing campaign is one GIF of this.
Ship plan
5 weekends · $8.64
pixelbean cat + house tilesets owned. Custom Roomba sprite (Aseprite, one session). Phase 1 validates push-feel; Phase 4 ships House 5, basement, HTML5 export.
itch.io free / PWYW · HTML5 + Windows · GDD v0.1: C:\github\NekoSokoban\GDD.md
Universe tie-in: the Shirakara in Futari has a cat. Akari knows its name. The cat does not clarify.
