CLAWDERA cozy puzzle that's mostly cats.

What it is

CLAWDER is a cozy cat puzzle: drag pieces onto the grid, fill rows and columns to clear them, keep the board alive as long as your nerve holds. One finger, one quiet loop, an escalating number of cats with opinions.

It's the kind of game you play on the commute, over lunch, or in bed avoiding sleep. Easy to pick up. Harder to put down — which is the only kind of "hard to put down" we're willing to engineer, because nothing in here is designed to keep you. You stay because the pieces landing right feels good, or you don't. The cat is fine either way. (It isn't, but it'll pretend.)

The fairness manifesto

Five rules, written down before the game was built. Anyone can print rules on a page — so here's each one with the thing we actually built to make it hold.

1. No ads. Not now, not later.

   There is no advertising SDK in CLAWDER. Not switched off, not “rewarded only” — absent. Nothing in the shipped app has a code path that can show you an ad, so there is nothing here to switch on later — putting ads in CLAWDER would mean shipping a different app, not flipping a flag. Our privacy policy lists every outside service the app touches; there is no ad network on that list.

2. No pay-to-win.

   Nothing you can buy is exclusive to buying. Meow Bucks shorten a wait; they don't unlock a capability you couldn't reach by playing. A power-up bought with Bucks is the same power-up you'd have earned — the money bought the time, not the tool.

3. No loot boxes. No gacha. No draws.

   Every purchase names exactly what you get before you buy it. Nothing is randomized, so there are no odds to disclose, no crates, no pulls, and no chance for the thing you wanted to not arrive. If you spend, you know precisely what for.

4. Everything that affects play is earnable.

   Power-ups, extra lives and rotation tokens can all be earned by playing — Meow Bucks are one route to them, not the only one. We say “everything that affects play” deliberately and narrowly: a few cosmetics are purchase-only, and we'd rather say so than round the claim up. Cosmetics never touch the board.

5. No rigged boards.

   The piece generator is seeded and deterministic — the same seed deals the same pieces, which is how everyone playing a given daily challenge gets an identical board. Difficulty follows your level, and it does rise as you climb — that's the game getting harder, not the game getting cynical. It is one curve, identical for every player at the same level, and your level is the only thing that moves it. The game does read your board when it refills your tray, but only to check you aren't being handed pieces you can't place anywhere; that check exists to help you. It never reads your balance or your purchase history — that information isn't available to the generator at all.

→ Why CLAWDER has no ads (and never will)

How it plays

• Drag & dropPlace pieces on the grid; complete a line — across or down — to clear it.
• Think as long as you likeIn the core puzzle there's no clock — the only pressure is the space you have left. (Daily challenges and higher levels add a timer when you want the heat.)
• Make the cat yoursDress up your cat with hats, accessories, and effects — most of them earned by playing — and clear cat-shaped boards when Cat Mode kicks in.
• Chase the snapThe whole game is the small, specific satisfaction of a piece dropping exactly where you meant it to.

See the game

What you get

Who makes it

KissyKat Games is one person who likes cats and clean lines. The cats are designed by the same person who builds the game. No growth team, no monetization team — which is precisely why there's nobody here whose job is to interrupt you.

Read the studio's manifesto →