There is a popular genre of games that I've recently named Waiting Simulators; these are usually mobile games where the operative part of the game is waiting for something to happen; for your energy to recharge, for plants to grow, for Homer to finish building a bowling alley, et cetera, et cetera. In all of these games, you can spend actual real cash money to not have to wait, because the actual game is played by the developers and the game is called "will impatient people give us money?"
They totally will.
Especially for random packs of cards that might contain something useful but won't.
So I was not expecting much when I installed Neko Atsume, except I was expecting cats because I know that Neko means Cat in probably Japanese, and I assume Atsume means "waiting for". Because this is a game of putting out cat toys and waiting for cats to show up and then leave and hopefully leave presents. And you can take pictures of the cats and you can use the presents to buy MORE toys and ...
Cats!
Is this even really a game? I don't know, but sometimes Tubby the cat shows up and eats all the food I left out and leaves an extra-big gift. Which sounds like I'm talking about pooping, but actually I think it's sardines? Anyway, 10/10.
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