It hardly matters that the version of Bongo Cat I downloaded before work this morning is a demo. It feels like the full game, because the game is simple: let this cat sit on your desktop while you ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and is sure he began doing so professionally in 2010 or thereabouts. If he was forced ...

When I first installed this free Steam game, I got a tiny cat on my taskbar that started tapping its paws every time I typed. I expected a cute distraction, a novelty game that would soon become a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Bongo Cat is an idle game, a genre which I admittedly paid little mind to prior to downloading the ...

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PC Gamer editor Lauren Morton wrote in February that "desktop pets are so back," and holy cow she was not wrong. One of the biggest games on Steam right now is a little doodad that puts a cute white ...

Who needs a AAA budget to be a viral sensation? Bongo Cat has become a home run with its simple yet infectious premise of a cute feline pounding out rhythms on a pair of bongos as the user types. It’s ...

Back in May, the web artist @StrayRogue posted a GIF of a cat on their Twitter feed. The GIF, only two frames long, showed a cat smacking a table with deadpan intensity. It was very cute. Over DM, ...

A new idle clicker game has overtaken Banana on the Steam charts. That’s Bongo Cat, published by Irox Games, which takes the general idea of Banana and the rest of the genre and tweaks it a little.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Want to watch a cute kitty paw at a taskbar and earn hats? Then Bongo Cat should be right up your alley. In fact, the free-to-play game has clearly ...