Hidden Cats in Istanbul – PS5 Review

Another month, another Hidden Cats game, once again from Silesia Games and Nukearts, this time in Istanbul. Not Constantinople, that’s right out. Once more unto the breach with lovely lightly animated images and finding the cats.

This is basically the same template as the Rio De Janeiro installment, once again across eight levels, you get to find nine hundred and twenty-one cats in all. We don’t yet know what it’s up on the store for, so we can’t yet work out our quotient, but we suspect it’ll once again be £3.29. That brings us to a healthy 0.357 pence per cat, so a cracking value there. A magnum if you will.

Incidentally, did you know that Unilever spun off all their ice-cream brands into one giant company called The Magnum Ice Cream Company, instantly encompassing twenty-one percent of global ice cream sales. Insanity.

Nukearts once again went with one big picture to investigate again and Istanbul begins just as Rio did, with 232 cats to find at the outset. By exploring this picture and highlighting significant landmarks, you’ll again unlock a further six levels to search.

Unless you’ve gone to get your teeth and hair done, or are a fan of Turkey itself, it’s unlikely you’ll have heard of many of the landmarks though, outside the Blue Mosque anyway.

Adhering almost slavishly to the Rio template, once you’ve completed all the goals in the first seven levels, you’ll unlock a festival and hence the final hundred and fifty cats and likely the final trophy. We took  just under three hours for our total playthrough, so that’s still fair value, especially combined with the generous ppc ratio.

All the levels are again vibrantly illustrated with a whole ton of cats and humans to find. You get audio cues and visual hints into the bargain to help with your search as well, so you’ll rarely, if ever need to resort to the actual designated hint button that points with a dirty great arrow towards a cat you’ve struggled to find.

A dozen cute real-life cats are depicted in photo form via collecting cards, though they only show up in the initial stage, it’d be nice if they also peppered the other levels too.

In conclusion, Hidden Cats in Istanbul is yet another solid hidden cat game with a  decent amount of gameplay and a decent pennies per cat ratio. It’s good and if you’re reading this review it’s reasonable to assume you’re into it too. Adopt, don’t shop, yo.