Pawsweeper

Pawsweeper is a Minesweeper-style puzzle game about treating cats at a crowded shelter. You inspect their fur and clear it patch by patch to find ticks, fleas and other things they brought in from the street. Some cats stay still; others flinch at the net, so you have to adapt to each patient.

Read the round grid

Numbers show how many dangers are nearby, as in Minesweeper, but the cells are round and have a different number of neighbours. That changes how the familiar logic applies. Safe clicks earn money, while each mistake gives the patient a new condition that does not clear itself.

Keep the shelter running

At the end of each appointment, you receive a bill. Food, medicine and rent all cost money, so most of what you earn on the grid goes toward getting through the next day. Anything left over can go toward upgrades.

Shape each run

You have six upgrade slots, with upgrades across four directions: survival, active abilities, income and tactics. Survival helps keep you going, active abilities can get you out of a hopeless board, income adds to what each click earns, and tactics reveal more before you take a risk. With too few slots for everything, you build a different vet each run around the patients and grid you get.

The days continue as the grid grows and the bills rise. Eventually you reach a day you cannot complete, which starts a new run with a different shelter and toolkit. Each run lasts about 20–30 minutes.