Kittens United

Play:

Maximise Touch: On-screen up/down/left/right buttons below the board. Confirmed working with a normal press; a very fast, instantaneous tap did not register in testing. · Keyboard: WASD or arrow keys; shortcut labels appear on the on-screen buttons after the first keypress.

About:

Made for js13k 2025's Mobile category under a strict 13-kilobyte size limit: reach your kittens before your moves run out, on a board that mixes procedurally generated layouts with a curated list of hand-picked "challenge" codes. Later levels add tiles that block movement outright and scattered yarn-ball pickups that feed a running currency, which buys hints when a level gets tough.

The on-screen d-pad is four real HTML buttons, not a canvas imitation, and full keyboard support is wired in alongside it — press any key once and the buttons sprout their own W/A/S/D labels. Testing confirmed the buttons genuinely move the cat on a real simulated touchscreen, with one caveat: an instantaneous flick-tap did not register in repeated tries, while an ordinary press-and-release worked every time. A real finger tap is rarely instantaneous, so this is unlikely to strand most players, but it is a real quirk worth knowing about.

Credits:

Made by Almut Kieffer-Jones (GitHub: mxlle), 2025. Published here with credit to its author, who stated no licence for it. Source code. The author's own page for it.

Phone check: played through multiple levels on a simulated phone (390x844, real touchscreen taps and held presses) and on desktop (mouse clicks and keyboard) on 7 Sep 2026 — on-screen d-pad and full keyboard both confirmed moving the cat and completing a level; zero console errors, zero external network requests

No licence stated. Almut Kieffer-Jones (GitHub: mxlle) published this game without saying how it may be reused, so it is hosted here on the strength of credit alone: their name, a link to their own release, and nothing altered but what it took to run. If you are the author and would rather it were not here, get in touch and it comes down the same day.

Tags:

puzzle · js13k · pathfinding · procedural levels · browser game · free