Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora

It was ok at first. I had fun playing it then the game got hard and tricky and the maps was like a maze, spent the last few days trying to get out of the lair with the mouses under ground. Once I finally got that area done, I had no clue what to do next and was a sitting duck confused and lost and the npcs were very useless. I stopped at the part where I had to visit the gum factory. I just stopped playing cause the map extremely confusing and I don't know where I am going and cannot even shoot a gum to a tin wall to blow it up and I raged quit. I did try to look online for help but it was even hard to find at least a walkthrough. I haven't played the game for months and probably never gonna return to it

This game has an absolutely enjoyable atmosphere, hilarious characters, and a beautiful commitment to the bit. I'll be honest, I've had this one on my list for a long time and have been putting it off- but I got absolutely bored the other day and decided to give it a shot. I regret not doing that sooner. Some of the reviews on here talk about a convoluted map and I'll be honest and say that it is at first- but after playing a while you learn the area pretty well and now I can navigate the game like the back of my hand. There are so many little hidden details and hilarious dialogue that make the whole thing 10 times more fun. If you are looking for a perfect game or true dark gritty noir you might be a bit disappointed but if you enjoy the humor of the title and like the trailers I would say to give it a shot.

Tl;dr, I'm glad I played this game, it's hilarious and so intricate and while it has a bit of a learning curve with the map it's definitely worth it!

The aesthetics and the writing are charming, but the puzzles, objectives and investigation mechanics are shoddy and mostly unenjoyable.

A well written, charming and genuinely funny noir indie adventure game about a pair of private investigators uncovering a criminal conspiracy. Can recommend to those that like indie games and the noir investigative genre.

It's a fun masterpiece. I had loads of fun playing this to be honest with you. It has some bugs and all but they arent really game breaking or anything just silly and a bit annoying sometimes.

Graphs 8/10 (had some bugging outs for me other than that is a 10)
Story 9/10 (its funny and has some 4th wall breaks)
Music 9/10 (very classy and fun to listen to)
Cats 10/10 (cats)

Not a must buy i say but if you have some spares than yeah you wouldnt feel like you wasted money. I guess?

Sadly I had to ask for a refund, game would be funny and kinda entertaining (well, the level "maze" design is kinda weird, but its bearable), if it was not for the camera which is annoying and in combination with character jumping causes headache (I dont recall having this issue with any of games I have played in last 15 years).

Liked the atmosphere, but didn't understand the story: that's what I call a good film noir adaptation ;)
It can be a bit buggy, tedious to travel to places and to understand what is required to progress in the story, but it has a nice touch

Hot Tin Roof is a comedic platform puzzler where you play a film noir type investigator. You'll explore labyrinthine locations, interview people, get clues and use your revolver to do - well, pretty much everything. And this is why using the revolver sucks all the fun from the game.

When using the revolver, you'll get 4 chambers and you can change the types of bullets you'll shoot. There are normal bullets to break things, bubbles to uncover secrets, flares to light up passageways, grappling hooks etc. Reloading happens either manually or quick reloading your selected configuration. Choosing the bullets, putting them manually in chambers and firing them would've maybe worked as a mini-game, but to build a full fledged game around it gets extremely repetetive. I knew the mechanic existed in the game, but it's the extent of how much the mechanic is used that caught me by surprise. Either select a bullet for the task at hand and waste time in the constant selection process, or build a cycle of different bullets and waste time shooting bullets that won't do anything to help your progress.

The game has things going for it that would make it a noteworthy indie title, but it is quite the feat to override all the good and essentially ruin the game with only one mechanic.

A game with a great sense of humour that is unfortunately let down by it's maze-like platforming and lack of a map. I never once felt like I knew where I was going and quickly grew frustrated at having to change the bullets one-by-one. There's a rapid reload ability, so why is there no rapid ammo-swap ability? Such a simple feature would have made the game far more bearable.

Really love this game! It's quirky, funny and everything I looked for. The dialouge is great. Except...

The controls are iffy. It is hard to climb and is more platformer than I hoped for. When I got this game, I had no idea it was a platformer. It is really easy to fall through the floor and end up all the way at the bottom. It's terrible because there is no frequent saving!! I really want to advance but I keep getting stuck in the same place over and over again. The reloading is hard especially since a lot of the time, you need to use multiple bullets.

Another thing, I got lost so much because there is no map and the game is so complex. There is so many ways to get anywhere and if you missed anything at all, you will get nowhere. Very frustrating.

I really love this game but it's too hard.

I came into this game really wanting to like it. I'd watched 'Nerd3 plays...' of it and the clever dialouge drew me in. The art style is fresh though at times I feel its a bit too sharp around the edges and needed more polish. I do feel the people who made it had their hearts in the right places and wanted to make a good homage to the noir genre.

Disclaimer: I'm not good at platformers and this game turned out to be one. I wasn't aware of this when I bought it. I thought it'd be a P.I. puzzle solving, collecting evidence kinda game. On closer inspection '3D Platformer' is in the description as a bulletpoint and as a tag however the screenshots and trailer don't show this. It was too late for me to refund though.
I haven't finished the game so I can't comment on the story. Look to other reviews for that.

Pros: Clever/funny dialouge, lives and breathes the noir genre, cute rats that are not automatically bad guys (just a personal one).

Cons: The platforming! Clunky controls, very difficult puzzles in the factory level that require more precision than the game allows (I'm stuck here). The gun bullets at first seem an interesting way of doing things but the slow reloading of them becomes labourious quickly and its difficult to tell which bullet you'll be firing first.

Conclusion: I really wanted to like this game for its great character however I felt like I was constantly fighting it as I progressed due to stubborness rather than enjoyment. The factory level was the last straw for me. Some tightening of the controls and maybe more visual hints would go a long way.

Hot Tin Roof is a comedic noir platformer where cats approve of your lesbian activities and life choices, which is really all I could ask for in a game.

Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora is all about the fusion of seemingly incompatible elements into something unique.

What do you expect from a game, when the first thing you see are detectives in fedoras and trench coats, working inside a dimly lit police station with wooden furniture and red carpets everywhere? Maybe some gritty story about a rotten-to-the-core megalopolis, full of injustice and corruption, ruled by undefeatable criminal masterminds?

However, it cannot be so grim, one would think, when the protagonist detective is a boxy woman, her partner is a boxy cat, and they jump and wobble as they move. Moreover, their whole world is like that too - boxy and jumpy. This visual style is lively and memorable, if limited, but one would think: can it convey something beyond a wacky-zany-surreal adventure?

And then the heroes get an urgent request to investigate a recent burglary, and, shortly after, a homicide case. The plot only goes grimmer from there, holding faithfully to the noir canon. It does not get bleak and depressing, thanks to the carefully mixed light-hearted humor in the dialogues and interactions, that manages to ease the mood, without turning everything into an outright comedy. Also, the city and the characters you meet are not doomed to the worst: there's a big freedom of choice, and you can help citizens via side quests - almost all of your actions will be acknowledged in the game ending.

The soundtrack helps game atmosphere greatly. When you play something noir, blues music with a juicy sax is necessary. In Hot Tin Roof that sax is accompanied by 8bit-ish synths - they fit in the ensemble as naturally as a xylophone or a rhodes piano would. The overall sound is chill and relaxing, and, with all the intricate sax solos, it stays in the background, as a good soundtrack should.

That chillout mood is perfect for the gameplay - there's nobody to fight and kill, with aimlessly wandering green blobs in underground areas coming as close as this game gets to enemies. Your trusty Wobbly revolver is for overcoming obstacles and exploring the game world, which has its fair share of secrets. You collect new types of ammo as you advance in the game, and in a good Metroidvania fashion, you can always revisit previously locked out areas and use your new toys to find something desperately needed or just helpful and interesting.

And remember - you don't have to reload your revolver chamber by chamber, hold R to instantly reload your current configuration! While this tip is present in the game, I wish it came by earlier.

The game world is, again, a fusion of 2D and 3D. For the most part, you navigate it as a 2D platformer, but you can switch planes and make turns at some points. This actually simplifies the comprehension of the locations, as instead of sudden and not always explainable screen switches, you have obvious connections between streets, passages, and shafts. Another important tip: if you stand on the edge of the platform and can't see what's down there, most of the time there's nothing and you'll fall back to the ground level if you jump there.

This experiment with mixing and fusing gameplay mechanics and styles results in a one-of-a-kind game, and it's well worth its price. As of today, Hot Tin Roof: The Cat That Wore A Fedora has roughly 7k owners according to Steamspy, and this rare gem deserves much more recognition.

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Well this is an extremely frustrating game. Warning, it is NOT an adventure game, which is what i was expecting. I love noir. I love cats. I love lesbians. I love funny dialog. The creators have made a wonderful little world here that incorporates all of those things, unfortunately the game itself is a platformer. The kind of platformer that forces you to fall down the same hole and repeat the same room over and over and over till you get the timing perfect, and then when you finally get past, something kills you and sends you back to a checkpoint three rooms ago. There is so much promise here, but being forced to collect coins and jump around like a Mario brother is absolutely not my cup of tea. Only for die-hard platformer fans.

The game is charming and cute. Filled with witty dialogue and unique ideas, I'd reccommend this game to anyone who enjoys a good detective game. I will comment that later in the game in the gum factory it can feel a bit tedious working your way through. It's worth it once you make it through and it feels good to finally arrest the perp. The only true downside of this game is that it has to end.

I enjoy quirky games that have a sense of humour and aren't overly-complicated. And I enjoy mysteries. I enjoyed these aspects of the game, and I do recommend it, but there are some caveats.

The concept of the different ammunition in the game is a great one, and makes the game simple, provides many possibilities for problem solving, and is kinda cool. But the way it was implemented drove me bonkers. When in a room and needing to use different ammunitions, sometimes the puzzle would require three or four of a particular type, then you would have to switch out to a different one (or two), do something with them, and then switch back. Granted, I'm sure in hindsight that I could have streamlined that and analyzed the problem and come up with a more efficient ammunition usage, but who wants to do that? Swapping out the ammunition is such an annoying mechanic, it would be much easier to put in some sort of ammo configuration and swap to it with a button or hotkey.

Still on the ammunition, some of the proximity/mapping of where you are in relation to the target object is sometimes not very precise. Trying to light something on fire sometimes takes three or four tries...needlessly frustrating.

If you watched my let's play of this series, I get quite angry with the controller response -- PLEASE do not take that as a negative on this game. That was a problem with my PC that was registering a button press multiple times and just causing no end of frustration for me. I finally figured it out, so the controller response was fine in the game, my only beef is with the mechanic behind the way you reloaded and chose ammunition for the gun. There were a few spots where precision is required and I'll chalk my difficulties there to poor hand coordination and not knock the game on it.

With the exception of one puzzle, which turned out to be a side-quest, and not necessary to complete the main story line, the puzzles vary from easy to hard, but not too hard. I think I relied on hints two or three times through the series, one of which was for the impossible-to-solve-so-I-didn't-side-quest, and in hindsight if I'd used common sense and had more patience I would have eventually solved them on my own. There were a few "tasks" which I'll group into the puzzle category, that made you revisit the maze of levels in parts of the game I'd much prefered to not have to go back down into the bowels for, but it wasn't too onerus, just time consuming...would change that in a future game.

I don't mean this in a negative way...the game was simple, and has a simple design. That is part of its charm...there aren't all these different button combos, and it is a unique story and setting. Aside from some of the criticisms above, I did enjoy this game. If you lack patience, or are prone to give up on stuff if you get mildly frustrated, then this probably isn't the game for you. But if you give it a chance, especially if you like cats (I don't, ironically), then I think you will get a lot of enjoyment from this game.

It's a simple, quirky, funny mystery with cats and guns.

I'm a fan of the noir genre and I was pleasantly surprised when I came across Hot Tin Roof; noir and kitty-cats, what could be better, right?

I like it, it was charming with its graphics, atmosphere, and I enjoyed each individual character's personality.
The music was great, too!

One of the game's key features was a revolver that aquired special abilities for each type of bullet you collect: Blowing bubbles, lighting torches, using a grappling hook, and more.
It was a fun and unique trait for this game.

The initial premise is good, but, there are a couple of issues.

The game may seem long, and it does take awhile to beat, but the story itself is a lot shorter due to the complex puzzles.
So, if you do decide to buy it, I recommend taking your time exploring the game so you get as much out of it as possible.

The game is fairly frustrating at times and it's easy to get lost in the 'puzzle areas', though it's less infuriating as The Impossible Game, thankfully.

I had hoped that the story and the side quests would've been a bit longer. The noir genre relies on good story-telling and it just seemed to be lacking in this game, but I guess that's due to the strong emphasis on the platformer puzzles, so take it with a grain of salt.

Also, there are times when you can purchase items in the game. However, I found that it was very easy to mine for money early on, and once I bought most of everything that was available, money became useless.
It would've been really nifty if I had been able to bribe characters for clues or tips to progress a case or complete a side quest.

If there is a sequel for Hot Tin Roof (and I do hope there are plans for it because it was delightful!), I hope that Emma's cat partner, Franky, can do more than just act as a guide; I felt that at times she wasn't too helpful and she did get in the way when I fired the revolver, but she was good company.

Overall, I enjoyed the game and there is replayability value since there are various side quests to seek out and there are (from what I've read) around fifteen different endings.

If you like noir, cats, and puzzles that are more complex than what you'd find in Mario - I'd say it's worth a try!

Gun? Check. Sexy Smooth Jazz? Check. Wise talking Cat? Check. Fedora? Check.

This game is nothing like the old movie with Elizabeth Taylor BUT is does have an awesome oldies feel the reminds your of the old Humphrey Bogart movies. The play style is easy flowing and the puzzles challenging but not to much so, also your partner is a wise cracking cat thats wearing a fedora. What more could you as for?

Still not sure about buying the game? See my play through! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OXBdtuK3Go

UPDATE: Literally within hours of posting this they put out two updates/patches, one of which fixed the original bug that prevented progress after a certain point. While the other points still stand, they've fixed the issue (at least for me) on saves that kill completion of the game. However, at this price point, I'd still wait at least for sale to get at least your money's worth for the first few hours.

First off - in terms of style, humor, and mood this game delivers exactly what you're looking for. It's witty, tongue-in-cheek, and one of those games where I could be posting screenshots all day.

In many ways, it feels as if the developers and creators spent a lot of love and time starting the game and creating the idea, but eventually lost interest or ran into production issues because the game starts strong but quickly devolves into frustrating platforming puzzles and a punishing gauntlet of bugs.

In early levels and stages, you're rewarded for your exploration with secret areas, collectibles, and so on. But later on, you run the risk of finding a collectible or jumping through an invisible wall which will render you unable to escape and forcing you to use the last savepoint to resume your progress. It got to a point where it felt like a rogue-like of chancing whether or not I would bug out or find a collectable.

The save checkpoints are cute and humorously executed, because as many times as you do it it never quite gets old - however the sloppiness in code execution, combined with long distances between savepoints ultimately has led to a point where I can resume yet find myself in a place unable to complete the game, essentially remembering my location in a map yet resetting all the doors, trapping me inside.

I really REALLY wanted to love this game - and in many ways I still do - but unfortunately because of the large number of bugs and sloppy techncial execution towards the end I can't recommend it in the state it's in. Rule one should be - you must be able to finish the game.

Really enjoyable metroidvania detective game with a lot of enjoyable conversation options ( I know my first playthrough will take a lot longer then an average persons playthrough since I will read all the different dialog options and choose them all).

One thing to realize to make the game more enjoyable is that holding "r" will reload all 4 bullets with your current bullet configuration instantly without having to manually remove and replace each one individually, though you will still have to frequently manually reload bullets to switch between types, the 4 earliest that you can get is ones that break objects like crates, one that reveals hidden levels/platorms/etc, one that is a grappling hook, and one that lights things on fire)

All in all, even if it's not very long I still find it well worth the asking price if you like either metroidvanias, CRPGs, or Noir games, while it's not a true metroidvania, it's got elements of "you need to get this bullet type (which might as well just be a skill that you happen to use via your gun) to be able to solve this puzzle to get to this area to find a clue to get this search warrent, blah blah blah. And you may find things you couldn't before coming back to areas with new bullet types.

But be warned, if you don't like reading flavor text and prefer voice acting skiping over text, you will not get as much out of the game since it is all text which gives the game part of its fun, much like how a big part of CRPGs isn't the RPG part but the conversation trees part which is also very often text only without VO since there are a lot of tree options. And like CRPGs if you just do the main required dialog the game can be relitivly short but if you do all the dialog you can, it has a lot of good content there that takes more time.