Hot Barrel Cats

About Hot Barrel Cats

Hot Barrel Cats is a free arcade game you can play right in your browser. If you like animal, cat and defense games, it should feel familiar. It plays in a landscape window and is controlled with mouse or touch. It is not tagged as mobile-friendly, but its controls mention tapping, so it may work on a phone too.

From the developer

Hot Barrel Cats is a cat defense game with a heat twist. A fungus horde called the Mildews marches down the road toward your gate, and only the cats standing on the wall can shoot. Every shot heats a cat up; when its burn time runs out it jams and stops firing until it cools.

Drag hot cats down to the spawn zone to cool off, send fresh ones up, and drop two matching cats together to merge them into a stronger tier. A merged cat starts completely cool, so a merge is both an upgrade and a rescue. Game info: single player, 16 hand-tuned levels with 1-3 stars each, landscape and portrait, desktop and mobile.

Levels: boss fights on levels 8, 12 and 16 - Big Puffball, Shelf Cap and Spore Mother - each attacking your heat instead of your health. Characters: 15 tiers of barrel-toting cats against 5 kinds of Mildew. Between battles, spend coins in the cafe on perks, claim a daily reward and chase achievements.

How to play

1. Desktop drag cats with the mouse or click then click the target Esc pauses M mutes Mobile drag with your finger or tap then tap the target Wall cats shoot drag hot ones down to cool.
2. Drop a cat on its twin to merge.

Tips

• Merge early and often: a crowded board is the usual way merge runs end.
• Aim for the head or weak spot when the game rewards critical hits.
• Place your strongest defences where enemy paths overlap.

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