Kitty Letter is available on the iPhone, iPad, and M1 Macs, but it’s best on the iPhone, where you can quickly swipe across letters to make words one-handed with your thumb. As you and your opponent are hit by incoming cats, your health meter tracks the damage you each take. Timing counts, too, because incoming groups of cats can only be countered by making a word that starts with the letter that appears above the group of enemy felines. The longer the words you put together, the bigger the cat armies you generate are. Build words from the letters launching cats that counter incoming armies and hit back at your enemy to inflict damage (or win points in arcade mode) when your cats make it through your enemy’s defenses. In both modes, the game mechanics are roughly the same. If you play fast, you may overwhelm your foe, but you also might run out of words too quickly and have to wait for new letters, helpless against an onslaught of cats. You can try to slow down a little to see what your opponent throws at you, but if you slow down too much, your letters reset. What makes multiplayer mode difficult, absorbing, and incredibly fun is that, like Arcade mode, it’s critical to maintain a quick (but not too quick) pace and be good at coming up with lots of words. Kitty Letter has only been out a few days, but there are already some terrific players. I played several matches against strangers and only won a couple of times. In multiplayer mode, you can play head-to-head against a friend or against a stranger. The game is perfect for one-handed mobile play and theoretically short sessions because no single level takes that long to play, but that’s only the case if you actually manage to peel yourself away from it. Add collectible power-ups, a funny storyline, The Oatmeal’s signature humor and art, and multiple game modes, and Kitty Letter is completely absorbing. As you create words by swiping across the letters that appear in a mysterious language vortex, armies of exploding cats are launched, countering other cats bent on destroying your home and attacking the crazy cat man who lives in a trailer across the street. Inman’s twist reminds me of another classic iOS genre: tower defense games. But as with many of my favorite iOS games, Kitty Letter takes a classic genre and adds a twist. The core mechanic is familiar: make as many words as possible from a handful of jumbled letters. That has absolutely been the case with Kitty Letter, the new word game from Matthew Inman, the artist behind The Oatmeal webcomic. It’s always a good sign when the hardest part of writing a game review is putting the game down.
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