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The Cat and the Coup

Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad · 2011-06-15

SteamPlayStation Store

Free To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 25, 2018 (PlayStation 4), Jun 15, 2011 (Linux), May 03, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall.

The Cat and the Coup is a Free To Play, Indie game released in 2011, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment (93% of 1104 reviews).

1
playing now
93%
positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
4.25★
PlayStation Store rating (87 ratings)
0.3h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

The Cat and the Coup is a puzzle video game by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad. The game follows the life of Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and his subsequent downfall through a CIA and MI6 engineered coup in 1953. On June 15, 2011, the game was released on Steam.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 9,645 Free To Play games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1702026-09-15 16:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 10 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 3 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 17 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 2 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)16642%4

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CatsIndieShortPuzzleSurrealHistoricalFree to PlaySingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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