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The Cat and the Coup

Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad · 2011-06-15

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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.

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playing now
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positive of 1.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
0.3h
time to beat (IGDB)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 05:00 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.

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Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

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

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)16642%4

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Player tags

CatsIndieShortPuzzleSurrealHistoricalFree to PlaySingleplayer

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