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NEKOPARA – Catboys Paradise – Simulation Game Review
NEKOPARA – Catboys Paradise is a Simulation/Adventure game from AMANITA, K.K., first launched in 15th July 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,311+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes NEKOPARA – Catboys Paradise Stand Out
Meet your catboy heartthrob in NEKOPARA – Catboys Paradise!
STORY
Your grandfather has recently passed away and you end up inheriting his café and house. You intend to keep the café running as a tribute to your grandfather, but you have no idea as to where to start. That's when a school gets in touch with you and asks if you are willing to host some trainees who have some experience in running a café. You take the offer without much hesitation. To your surprise, however, the trainees are not four humans but four humanoid cats! Humanoid cat workers aren’t that rare these days, but this is still your first interacting with one. And thus, your story begins as you work alongside four catboys!
CHARACTERS
Laurier (CV Kaito Ishikawa)
Breed: Khao Manee
Height: 182cm
"The sleepy prince who does things in his own way"
Laurier appears to be a lazy catboy that takes naps whenever he can. When it comes to work, however, he always does his job perfectly. Due to his friendliness and handsome appearance, he is very popular with female customers. He is actually a talented catboy who can achieve anything if he sets his heart to it.
Fennel (CV Wataru Komada)
Breed: American Burmese
Height: 178cm
"The supportive catboy who aims for perfection"
For the sake of you and the café, Fennel strives to provide you with useful advice. He is a hard-working perfectionist who sets high standards for himself. Since he sleeps less in exchange for more time to study, nobody has actually ever seen him sleeping.
Sage (CV Yuuichirou Umehara)
Breed: Bengal
Height: 190cm
"The strong, yet kind-hearted older brother"
Sage is a catboy that's rough with words, but he always takes care of everyone like an older brother. He is a big-hearted catboy who does not care too much about details. He never hesitates to offer help whenever he can.
Dill (CV Junya Enoki)
Breed: Calico
Height: 174cm
"The adorable catboy fashionista"
Dill is a very approachable catboy who can make friends with practically anyone. He is a big fan of fashion, which explains why his biggest worry is buying too many clothes. Sometimes he picks clothes for you or helps you with makeup.
FEATURES
Visual novel with 4 routes for each catboy!
Japanese voice acting
Japanese, English, Chinese language options
CG Gallery Mode
STAFF
Character Designer: G Yusuke
Story: Yuki Yuno
Music: POPHOLIC
Video Production: Nirai-kanai
Producer: Sayori
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, NEKOPARA – Catboys Paradise is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th October 2021
Recent improvements include:
Version 1.1.0 | Russian language support
- Added Russian translations
- Fixed bug that volume of some sound effects is not adjusted by volume slider
- Chinese translation improvements
Download & Availability
NEKOPARA – Catboys Paradise is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get NEKOPARA – Catboys Paradise on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its really good we just would like to be longer we finished every route in one day.
They are so hot and we would 10/10 pp booty put w that man oh gyatt they have those cakes. The twink guy is so twinky and prob got that gyatt 9000 and the dominant alpha guy gots the 84 legs. They deffo the warrior cat alpha pack w this one. Lovin it tbh we want those hot men to go into bed oiled up and tied up like a christmas present. Can Santa give them to us? Edging to those fine baes rn bouta let it out.
So we got this game thinking: oh this is probably going to be kinda boring but imma try it anyway we were lucky that we said yes to it because this game is so cute! It kept us entertained because of how cute it was. We think this game deserves a 5 star, thank you so much for making this game.
We love cat boys so much and its great having a game that encapsulates a true cat boys energy! Its hard choosing which kitty we want to own the most but we think Id have to choose Dill. Hes so fem boy and sooooo sexy!! The best part of this game is when the cat boys rub their scent all over you. Its their way of showing affection with their feline instincts. 10/10 would recommend.
It is so interactive with many HOT boys (Not Dill) !! We LOVE BOYS !! (Not Dill).
We NEED MORE LAURIER PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU THIS MAY BE AN OLD APRIL FOOLS JOKE BUT IM OBSESSSEDDDDDD.
Positive: its an amazing game to play,we really like the storyline and the character design and how Im running a cafe with cat boys. This game caught our eye since Im a cat lover an we absolutely love anything cat wise! Negative:the only bad thing here isit didnt let us go to the next story. Im not sure Im its one a day or something but we cant go to the next/last two stories Im on. We just finished Lauriers story and we were just about to go onto Fennels story. Once it loaded the continue button was grey meaning we couldnt click it. Im not really sure what happened but we would like a fix,please and thank you.
Theres no ads, no gems, nothing! We can actually enjoy the story this way.
We loved it. Playing it again after Ive been away a while. Really wish this would get more content like was mentioned might happen.
We loved playing this game! It has no ads, and it has short and cute stories in the game. The stories and characters are well written.
We really wish this game was longer :( all the characters are great, especially fennel our beloved.
Please make more.. Thats all we ask.
Im male yes but this game is really cool! We normally dont make reviews but this game was so interesting we really recommend it. We think the only change we would make to the game is to see dill and the player snuggling in bed. Love this game 10/10 hands down.
Its free to read and the boys are so cute! We recommend this for those just looking for a quick distraction, this is an enjoyable story and although its short, its not rushed but also just right since you have four stories hihi. Doesnt have annoying ads also so.. We wish it there were more games like this tho, hehe thank u so much dev. Keep up the good work.
Just downloaded it its so cute.
We couldnt stop ourselves from fangirling for awhile so we kept distancing ourselves before we get to into the game. But now that we have more time to play we dont think we wanna stop. We love this type of game (also really love otome games) also we really like the art.
So story time, we were feeling sad and lonely because of spring break we literally have no friends. We were on the App Store looking for ways to soothe our hunger. Then we literally saw a literal catboy and was intrigued. We downloaded it without thinking or reading the reviews. We sat in anticipation for it to finish downloading. When the download was complete we plunged ourselves into somthing that could possibly ruin our gaming life forever. Our first otome visual novel. Now it is 6:00 and we just finished sages route. We wasted our night on Catboys and am going on to the next paradise of otome. Well see you then. (Ohshc ref).
This really fun! We like all the characters a lot, and their personalitys! We would just recommend one thing, to just add more options when things are happening. Like controlling if you wanna say yes or no. But overall, we really like this game.
We need more Ive done all their routes and dill is our favorite we just love this game so much its so unique and we love catboys wooo.
The characters are well written imo, have cute designs, and quirky personalities. Its a pretty short game only taking us around 10 hours to finish and the only choice you get to make is picking routes, but still was able to enjoy it since the writing of this game is great! The cast of voice actors is amazing too !! Was a bit disappointed since we were expecting something similar to the other Nekopara games. Nonetheless,the game has a simple gameplay since you dont really do much but sit and enjoy the story! We will say it is totally not for everyone but If you love nekos and have had 0 human interaction in months we hugely recommend! We really hope that in the future well see a full game version of this game cause we think it really has potential and we would buy in a heartbeat.
A cute dating sim with cute characters!!! Very fun to play and u can play it whenever.
This game is adorable! And all the lines are voices, its translated well and has such nice art! Definitely a 10/10 game.
We love this game so much- we just got it a few hours ago and just reached dills ending. Im sobbing we love him so much ahhh!! Anyway if youre considering getting this, please do its such a great game.
All the characters are really interesting although we wish they had more story to tellIt would be really nice to get to know the characters more.
Please add more to this. We absolutely love all the characters and the premise, but please add on to it! This would be an absolutely wonderful full visual novel especially if you add choices that change outcomes. Please Im literally begging.
So, When we saw this game..we were like This looks fun so then we downloaded it and Im a animal lover specially CatBoys so this is our type of game, and its a awesome amazing game to play!! We enjoy it..but our mom uninstalled it..Idk whyShe knows we love animals and CatBoys.
It definitely surprised us on how short each route was, we finished the entire game in less than a day. It was also shocking on how you dont really have choices to choose for a route, but thats part of its uniqueness! Even though it was short, it was quite cute! Some of the characters seemed somewhat stereotypical in a way but definitely shifted their stereotypes in different ways too. This game is a type of game that should be played for someone who has some short freetime to sit down and play something this enjoyable. This game is not a type to be used for such a short while, such as a month or more if you want to go through a long story and routes. This game made us smile and we felt a connection in such little game time. We do recommend this game if you just feel bored and maybe have a couple minutes or so to spare.
Cute catboys, but it should really be an option to change your gender at the beginning of the game.
We download this game as a joke, but ended up actually enjoying it. Some of the dialogue was really awkward but overall it was a very enjoyable game with great love interests. We loved Dill and Laurier. We would be very willing to play an extended version.
It would be nice to have the MC talk and depending on what you say can change the story. But this is probably 10x times better than the NEKOPARA Loli version. We are a sucker for cat boys.
Its entertaining so far, we do wish there were a few more characters though.
We loved the shyness and the whole story was amazing just one thing that we were kinda upsetting and that is that they end it by her still trying to make her decision and no kiss or anything we guess we expected a little more from this but we do recommend downloading this but dont put your hopes too high for a little romance.
Okay we wanna start this by saying this game is great. We love it. The characters, the short sweet story, thats amazing. BUT almost every time we open up the game or choose a new character route Ill get pretty far and then without giving us the chance to save, it exits us out of the app. Then we have to sit through a bunch of it as we wait for the speed button to do its job. We really hope this gets fixed, and more content or games from this developer comes out. Overall great job.
We just started playing this game, and we love it, but we have a problem of everytime we get to the headline photo where they all take the photo, it keeps kicking us out of the app and making us restart :| kinda annoying.
We love the game! Its intriguing and not super long. Our pronouns are he/him, and im not gonna lie we were a little upset that we couldnt change what they were referring to us as.. Hope you guys can update this in the future :).
Hello! We've played this game for a while but we do have a small recommendation to make it better: Allowing the user to choose their own responses. We think this game is great and has lot's of potential as an otome game but some of the things the MC says or responds doesn't seem to fit. We think with more options it would make this game better ^^.
Its all we ask for please just add a gender option.
We love the game & its interesting to see that it doesnt have multiple choice for dialogue to progress in the story. But it is quite bothersome for it to frequently crash especially when you are a quick reader like ourselves. And we have to frequently save the story in each new save file for each cat. And we find it odd that it seems like the story is incomplete but it finishes after you discover something new about each cat. We hope that there will be a continuation instead of it abruptly stopping like that.
Its a good game, but we dont like that you cant select your gender and HAVE to be female. Itd be better if you could choose male or female at the beginning of the game.
The story-like game is cool but like we just choose routes and whoever we go with but we dont have enough options, like we cant see our face but it could be cool if u updated it. Such as designing ourselves, maybe more parts until the story ends, a shop? And ig like skin cards.
We loved the game, Pretty interesting only factor is im a dude, and that probably sounds weird to some people but thats not the point, our point is we couldnt change our pronouns,, not a huge deal but kinda ruined it for us.
There is a problem it keeps kicking us off and dose not save were we are in the game please please fix it we just got it so please fix it please and thank you.
Its good its good, but, we got VERY annoyed, we wish you could: choose the name, choose the genderAND, choose what to say!!!!. WE NEVER REALLY SAY ANYTHING, ITS ANNOYING, we would seriously do everything to avoid the Catboys, not fond of them, but, we love the art style, its quite nice.
We downloaded this game because the description didnt label it strictly as otome or female protagonist. The art and storyline seemed so cute too.
Its purely a personal preference but we couldnt even get past the beginning. The characters, mostly the white haired guy, were annoying. No respect for boundaries; using the excuse that theyre catboys absolutely doesnt excuse it. The MC was spineless and let them do whatever they want even though shes supposed to be their employer. We dont hate physically affectionate characters but in this case it really got under our skin. We didnt even get to learn the guys name or our MCs backstory before hes literally on top of us. Then he, a complete stranger, sneaks in our room and forces his way into our bed the first night Absolutely not, its not charming or cute its downright gross and completely disrespectfulThey would have gotten fired before they even started, back to the cat boy academy you go cause they clearly forgot to teach them common decency Only reason a gave three stars was because the game quality was great, too bad the story & characters werent.
Its amazing but the problems are that it wont let us play for much time and the save button wont really work. We just hope that this game will have it opportunity to fix these soon enough.
The story literally ends with no romantic development at all. If each route was longer itd be perfect but in its current state theres actually no point in playing.
There are no options for dialogue in this game. The only choice you get is to choice the route you want to go on. But we wouldnt call this a game its more of a story tbh. We played a lot of otome games in our lifetime but this isnt it in our opinion. If you want a story this is for you, if you want a game, this isnt it. Story line very clich but cute we give an 5/10, the artwork is good, liked the voice acting through the entirety of it. Doesnt have no definite ending at all it just ends right in the middle of the story. We hardly get to know them at all. They give a tiny description in the beginning and thats kinda it. Theres hardly and character development cause of how short it is. There isnt really anything going on in this app. We were expecting more of a game (storyline, getting to know the characters, character development, choices, an actual ending, etc.) Like there isnt barely any element of a otome game in this app. Its not even a game at all. Im extremely disappointed in this app. We played 2/4 routes then got bored and couldnt finish the rest of the routes cause of how boring this is. We literally sat there on auto and just kept tapping the screen so it wouldnt fall asleep. Literally we sat there and did nothing. This isnt a game. The only reason this has 2 stars is because of the voice acting throughout the game. We honestly dont know how this app has a 4.7 star rating.
We actually really liked this game at first and adored the characters but it kept crashing? Ive restarted the game twice now, Im not doing it again. Sorry, also story line seemed a little basic and characters where stereotypical. Did appreciate that you could finish it in a day, not having to wait for any keys or whatever like other otome games do.
We cant even get past the prologue because the download screen gets stuck at 99% no matter how much storage space is freed up.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.0
- Size: 227.22 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, RU, ZH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [AMANITA, K.K.]()
Last updated: 30th October 2021 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: AMANITA, K.K.