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Cat Needs

A PS5 platinum route through the first 49 puzzles, with cat movement rules, worked opening examples and help for the later arrangements.

PS5

Trophies
12
Difficulty
2/10 with puzzle help
Completion time
1–2 hours
Playthroughs
1 route to level 50

Before you play

Known trophy issues
Not checked
Missable trophies
None known
Chapter select
Not checked
Postgame cleanup
Not checked

All trophies follow normal puzzle progression. Solve the first 49 puzzles and advance into level 50. The final puzzle is optional for the platinum.

Your route to completion

Start the first puzzle and read Black and White Cat for the controls and a worked opening board. Follow Roadmap for the order in which the puzzle rules become relevant, then use Trophies for each animal's constraints and the numbered milestones. These three sections group the route, rather than naming separate game worlds.

I would solve forward in one run. Use the left stick or directional buttons to highlight an animal, Cross button to select and put it down, and D-pad left or D-pad right to move it. The need icons show food, sleep, play and spacing requirements. A solved arrangement opens the next puzzle. If an animal becomes trapped or a kitten occupies the wrong box, Triangle button resets the current board.

Work through Reach Level 10 and Reach Leval 25, learning the food, sleep and kitten rules as they appear. Later boards add the spotted cat, elderly cat and dog. Their encounter trophies unlock on their first introductions, with no separate side tasks to clean up.

Stop after solving the first 49 puzzles and entering level 50 for Reach Leval 50. That completes the platinum route, without solving the final board. The platinum requirements reference keeps the route and controls together.

Learn movement, food and sleep

Start with Black and White Cat and its four-square worked example. The early puzzles introduce Yellow Cat and Gray Cat on the way to Reach Level 10.

Check the route before feeding an animal. The tall cat can jump over two cats, the yellow cat over one, and the gray cat must walk. Leave a landing space and feed the gray cat before bringing it to a box. Blue icons warn that an animal can keep eating food intended for another cat.

If a board is trapped, press Triangle button and change the move order. The external opening demonstration by ScorpioOfShadows on PS5 shows the early layouts.

Black and White Cat

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Meet the Black and White cat for the first time

Start the first puzzle to meet the tall black-and-white cat. The introduction awards this trophy automatically, before you need to solve a special challenge with it.

On that opening four-square board, the cat starts at the left and food is at the right. Highlight it, press Cross button to pick it up, move three squares right with D-pad right, then press Cross button to put it down if it is still selected. Reaching the food satisfies this first task and lets you advance.

This cat can jump over two cats and remains useful for moving around the row after eating. Keep it available when a later board has a crowded route. If you trap the arrangement, Triangle button resets the current puzzle.

External video: opening board and PlayStation tutorial (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 1:15)

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Yellow Cat

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Meet the Yellow Cat for the first time

Keep solving the opening puzzles until the yellow cat is introduced. The first meeting awards this trophy. It doesn't require a separate feeding count.

Highlight a cat with the left stick or directional buttons, press Cross button to select it, move it left or right, then press Cross button again to put it down. The yellow cat can jump over one cat when there is an available landing square, while the tall black-and-white cat can clear two.

Use that difference to decide which animal can cross a crowded part of the row. If a jump isn't possible, first make an empty landing space or move the other cat. Reset a trapped puzzle with Triangle button and try a different order.

External video: one-cat and two-cat jump rules (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 1:45)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough · EdEN, PS3Blog: Cat Needs PS5 review

Gray Cat

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Meet the Gray Cat for the first time

Continue through the early puzzles until the gray cat appears. Its first introduction awards the trophy automatically.

The gray cat cannot jump, and it needs food before it can sleep in a box. Clear its walking route first, lead it to food, then bring it to the sleeping spot. Don't fill that route with cats which it cannot cross.

A blue need icon means the cat can keep consuming food, including a bowl intended for another animal. Plan its path so it doesn't use up the other cat's meal. If the arrangement is no longer solvable, press Triangle button to reset this puzzle and change the order.

External video: blue need icons and food consumption (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 2:10)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough · EdEN, PS3Blog: Cat Needs PS5 review

Reach Level 10

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Good start!

Solve the opening puzzles and advance until level 10 opens. This is a progression award, not a requirement to feed ten cats or repeat ten actions on one board.

Use the first need icon above each cat to plan its destination. Feed the gray cat before taking it to a box, clear a walking route for animals which cannot jump, and leave landing spaces for those which can. Highlight with the left stick or directional buttons, select and put down with Cross button, and reset a trapped arrangement with Triangle button.

The full opening demonstration below covers the early boards. Follow the animal movements one at a time and check the resulting need icons before moving on. Finishing a board and opening the next puzzle is the useful progress check.

External video: opening puzzle sequence (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 0:54)

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Keep the kittens on their intended routes

Continue forward for Black Kitty and White Kitty, then keep solving until Reach Leval 25.

The black kitten wants the mouse and the white kitten wants the ball. Both can become occupied playing with a box. Move animals which still need to cross the row before letting a kitten settle, and keep the white kitten away from the black kitten until that interaction is useful.

Use each trophy's rule reminder alongside the external kitten demonstration by ScorpioOfShadows on PS5 when a layout needs precise placements.

Black Kitty

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Meet the Black Kitty for the first time

Progress past the early food-and-sleep puzzles until the small black kitten is introduced. Meeting it is the trophy requirement, so you don't need to perform extra toy interactions to make the award count.

Its puzzle goal is the stuffed mouse. Move it toward that toy after checking the route for boxes. A black kitten which starts playing with a box stays there for the rest of that puzzle, which can leave another cat without its sleeping spot or block the row.

Keep the kitten out of a box until the intended route is clear. If it has already become stuck playing there, use Triangle button to reset the current puzzle, then change the move order.

External video: black kitten and stuffed mouse (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 6:15)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough · EdEN, PS3Blog: Cat Needs PS5 review

White Kitty

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Meet the White Kitty for the first time

Continue solving the kitten puzzles until the white kitten is introduced. This trophy is awarded for that first meeting.

The white kitten wants the small ball. Like the black kitten, it can get distracted by a box. It also starts playing when placed beside the black kitten or the dog, so check neighbouring spaces as well as the route to its toy.

I would reserve a clear path to the ball before bringing the playful animals together. If a kitten is already occupied in a box and the remaining needs cannot be met, reset with Triangle button and move the other animals first.

External video: white kitten introduction and puzzles (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 12:40)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough · EdEN, PS3Blog: Cat Needs PS5 review

Reach Leval 25

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Halfway there!

Keep clearing the puzzles until level 25 opens. The animal introductions are part of this route, so continue forward rather than repeating an earlier puzzle for a feeding or toy counter.

The kittens make the order of your moves important. Check where the mouse, ball and boxes are before selecting an animal. Move the cats which need to walk along the row before letting a kitten settle into a box, and keep the white kitten away from its playmates until the route is ready.

Use Cross button to select and put down, then D-pad left or D-pad right to move the selected animal. If the current order has left a kitten stuck or a sleeping spot unavailable, Triangle button resets that board. Follow the demonstration for exact placements on the intervening puzzles.

The trophy is earned on reaching the numbered milestone. If it is still locked, finish the current board and advance before checking again.

External video: kitten puzzle sequence toward level 25 (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 6:15)

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Plan spacing and the dog crossing

The later route introduces Antisocial Cat, Old Cat and Dog. Leave both neighbouring squares empty for the spotted cat, clear a walking path to a box for the elderly cat, and reserve enough space for the dog and a landing square beyond it.

Only the tall black-and-white cat can jump over the two-square dog. The dog is already content, so the remaining animals determine whether the arrangement is solved. Avoid starting the white kitten playing beside it before you have finished the other movements.

Follow Reach Leval 50 through the remaining puzzles. The route ends on entering level 50 after 49 solved boards. Check the platinum before attempting that optional final puzzle.

Platinum Cat Owner

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Get all other trophies.

Earn the eleven gold trophies by progressing to level 50. The eight animal introductions and the three numbered milestones are all on the same route, so no separate challenge or collection run is needed.

Solve the first 49 puzzles and advance into level 50 for Reach Leval 50. You can stop once that award and this platinum are earned. Solving the final puzzle isn't required for the platinum.

If the platinum is missing, check which gold entry is still locked. Follow the next unfinished puzzle and compare its new animal introductions with the eight encounter entries. The milestone solutions below give the route advice and puzzle demonstration.

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs trophy guide · ScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough

Old Cat

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Meet the Old Cat for the first time

Continue the later puzzles until the long-haired elderly cat is introduced. The first encounter awards this trophy automatically.

It wants a box to sleep in and cannot jump. Before moving it, clear the path between the cat and its box. Use the jumping cats to get out of its way, and keep the kittens from occupying the sleeping spot first.

If an immovable or already settled animal blocks the only route, press Triangle button and arrange those animals in a different order. You don't need another encounter or a separate side objective for the trophy.

External video: elderly cat and its box (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 20:32)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough · EdEN, PS3Blog: Cat Needs PS5 review

Antisocial Cat

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Meet the Antisocial Cat for the first time

Work through the later puzzles until the spotted, antisocial cat is introduced. The first meeting gives the trophy.

To make it happy in the puzzle, both squares directly beside it must be empty. Check the final arrangement of its neighbours, rather than leaving it isolated briefly and then filling a neighbouring space again.

I would clear those two spaces after routing the other cats to their food, toys and boxes. If its need remains unmet, inspect both adjacent squares. Use Triangle button to restart the current board if you have blocked the necessary rearrangement.

External video: spotted cat and empty neighbouring spaces (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 17:21)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough · EdEN, PS3Blog: Cat Needs PS5 review

Dog

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Meet the big Cat, I mean, the Dog for the first time

Continue into the dog puzzles. Its first introduction awards this encounter trophy.

The dog is already happy, so concentrate on satisfying the cats around it. It occupies two squares, and only the tall black-and-white cat can jump over it. The yellow cat's shorter jump cannot clear the dog.

The introductory dog board makes that rule useful immediately: food is at the left, the dog occupies the middle two squares and the black-and-white cat is at the right. Select the cat with Cross button and move left over the dog to the food. Put it down with Cross button if it remains selected.

In later arrangements, keep a landing square available beyond the dog. If the white kitten starts playing beside it at the wrong moment, reset the current puzzle with Triangle button and separate them earlier in the sequence.

External video: dog introduction and worked crossing (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 24:12)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough · EdEN, PS3Blog: Cat Needs PS5 review

Reach Leval 50

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Thank you so much for playing!

Solve the first 49 puzzles and advance into level 50. This earns the last numbered milestone, and the platinum follows once the other gold trophies are earned. The wording says reach level 50, so you do not have to solve that final board.

The late puzzles combine the earlier movement limits with the spotted cat's need for empty neighbours, the elderly cat's walking route to a box, and the dog's two-square body. Plan the final positions before making the first move. Reserve landing spaces for the black-and-white cat and keep kittens from settling into boxes needed by another animal.

Use Triangle button if the current arrangement is trapped. There is no trophy condition requiring a perfect first attempt. Work through the remaining layouts with the demonstration below, checking that each solved board advances the route.

At level 50, check all eleven gold trophies and Platinum Cat Owner. If the platinum is still missing, inspect the locked animal or earlier milestone entry before doing extra puzzles.

External video: dog puzzles and the remaining route to level 50 (ScorpioOfShadows, PS5, 24:10)

SourcesScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs trophy guide · ScorpioOfShadows: Cat Needs PS5 walkthrough

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