In The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off shelves, scattering his papers, and scratching him.
| App ID | 95700 |
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| App type | Game |
| Developer | Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad |
| Publisher | Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad, USC Games |
| Homepage | https://thecatandthecoup.github.io/ |
| Release date | 2011-06-15 17:00 UTC |
| Controller support | partial |
| Free app | Yes |
| Store page | store.steampowered.com/app/95700 |
| Last store refresh | 6 hours ago |
| # | Executable | Arguments | OS | Description |
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| 0 | TheCatAndTheCoup.exe | windows | ||
| 1 | TheCatAndTheCoup.app | macos |
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| Date | Price | Regular | Discount |
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| 2026-09-11 21:09 UTC | Free | Free |
| DLC | AppID | Release | Price |
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| Branch | Build ID | Description | Updated | Password |
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| public | 3675997 | 2019-03-25 00:55 UTC |
| Depot | Name | OS | Size | Download | Public manifest | Notes |
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| 95701 | windows | 806.99 MB | 242.63 MB | 6634475031183582295 | ||
| 95702 | macos · 64 | 818.03 MB | 246.60 MB | 2918602450540054462 |
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| 3675997 | public | 2019-03-25 00:55 UTC | 6 hours ago |
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| Added feature Family Sharing | Family Sharing | |
| Extended: homepage | http://www.thecatandthecoup.com | https://thecatandthecoup.github.io/ |
| Genre | Indie | Free To Play |
| Genre | Free To Play | Indie |
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If you already had The Cat and the Coup in your Steam library, you might have noticed a significant update. Last year we remastered it in 4K. Everything is re-coded, the sound and music are updated, and the art/world is significantly embellished. Indeed, we released this remaster last year for $1.99, but now it's time to go back to Plan A - give it away to all as an update of the 2011 release.
When is a bad game not a bad game? When it inadvertently nudges you towards a good game. I began this week playing a very weak HAWXlike coded in Tehran and, via some connected Wikipedia delving and Steam sifting, ended it playing a powerful adventure game set during the Iranian Revolution. Squadron: Sky Guardians’ flight model resembles actual flight in the same way a vaulting horse resembles an actual horse. (more…)
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Politics and puzzles. Art and animation. Cats and coups. A little bit of little-discussed history that’s all too relevant to what’s happening right now. …
Rehearsals and Return is the new game from (primarily) Peter Brinson, creator of the remarkable art/history/politics vignette The Cat & The Coup. This shares a certain cut-up appearance and a maudlin tone (well, depending on how you approach it), but it’s a rudimentary platform game set to surrealistic, sometimes chaotic backgrounds, wherein you collect dialogue options then make decisions about how to treat assorted famous and infamous figures. And a few less famous ones too. At present it costs just $1, and will eventually rise to $4. This is a discussion of the experience I had w
Politics is boring. It’s not politics’ fault that he’s boring, that’s just the way he is. If variety is the spice rack of life, politics is nutmeg. Completely unremarkable and dull to your average teenager, until you mention the fact that it caused a few wars. In large enough doses, nutmeg can also give you palpitations and make you see things that aren’t really there. Like I said, boring, right? No wait, that’s the opposite of boring. That’s interesting. (more…)
I was going to treat this as a Wot I Think, but sometimes you meet a game that just isn’t at all suited to any kind of verdict like that. There’s plenty I could probably find to moan about if I put my critic’s hat on, but what a futile endeavour that would be. The Cat And The Coup doesn’t exist to serve games’ usual purposes, although that’s not to say it’s entirely divorced from why we play them. You owe it to yourself to free up 20 minutes for this. And I don’t only say that because it stars a cat. (more…)
The Cat and the Coup is a free documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. It plays like a simple physics puzzle game, it looks like a storybook with artwork inspired by Persian miniatures, it features music by Nine Inch Nails, and if you give it just 15-minutes of your time, it'll teach you the story of a really fascinating period of American and British history involving communist paranoia and a CIA-funded coup d'état. A video, screenshots and some thoughts below. The game starts at the end of Mohammed Mossa
2011 IGF Finalist The Cat and the Coup is now available for free on Steam. The Cat and the Coup is a documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off of shelves, scattering his papers, jumping on his lap and scratching him.
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