A Simple Expurriment

A Simple Expurriment is a combat-free metroidvania about a cat family abducted and taken aboard an alien spaceship built like a giant puzzle. You play as the mother cat, trying to reunite with her three genetically enhanced kittens and get them home. The alien who took them wants to learn how cats make humans docile, hoping to use that knowledge in a possible expansion toward Earth and perhaps earn a promotion.

Explore the ship

You move through four main areas using the ship’s transport system, manipulating their sectors to open new routes. There are no enemies to defeat, but dangers to avoid through agility and stealth. The kittens’ genetic upgrades let them jump higher, turn to liquid and perform other cat-like abilities; when those are not enough, you can rearrange parts of the ship to find a way forward and bring the cats together.

Choose an outcome

In the latter half of the game, you make a crucial decision that leads to one of two possible outcomes. Each route has different obstacles and a final challenge, and both are chaotic. After reaching an ending, you can return directly to the decision point and take the other route.