Calico

Summary
Restore the cat café. Found and play with animals. Resolve inhabitants problem.

Summary on Steam: "Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!"

Trailer

Game Design
3D. Game physics is funny.

There are two horses in the game, which are the fastest ground animals. The big spotted blanket bay horse is names Horsey, and the small black one is named Horsey 2: The Sequel.

horse screenshot

Gameplay
Note: The game is easier with a controller. Here is described for a Xbox controller.

Riding Mechanics
Same for all animals. Move with the left stick and press A to jump. Press Y to ride on or to get off. Press RB to change speed (walk, trot, gallop).

Animals
Explore the map to find all animals. The island magic make them friendly, so they can be put in your café (up to 10) or follow the player (up to 5). It's possible to increase the amounts of following animals by putting some on other animal head (press X if you have an animal in you hand when you ride another one).

Interactions
Find animals. Put them in your café. Be followed by them. Play with them. Change them with potions: Growth, Little, Flying, Purple, Night. Ride them (big form only). Put them a hat. Put them on your head or another animal head (little form only).

Animal species
List of all animal species availble in the game:

Steam version
There are 13 Steam achievments.

Tricks & Hacks
Walktroughs:
 * All animal locations
 * All recipes
 * All Steam achievments (Steam version only)
 * 100% Achievement Walkthrough on video by LAG Walkthroughs: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3

System Requirements & Compatibility
PC (Minimum on Steam) OS: Windows Vista or greater Processor: 2 Ghz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+ DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: any

PC (Minimum on Epic) OS: Windows 7+ Processor: X64 CPU 2GHZ+ Memory: 4GB Ram Storage: 1.5GB Available

 PC (Recommended on Epic) OS: Windows 10 Processor: X64 Multi Core CPU, 2GHZ+ Memory: 8GB Ram Storage: 1.5GB Available

Mac (Minimum on Steam) OS: Mac OS X 10.8+ Processor: 3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5 Memory: 6 GB RAM Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630 Storage: 4 GB available space Sound Card: any Additional Notes: 64-bit only

Accessibility
The game is easier with a gamepad. There are many things to do it with the same inputs, which may be a little confusing.