So You Want to Work With A Bed Full Of Cats
A Bed Full Of Cats is an independent point-and-click adventure game released a few years back. It was made by a small team, roughly 150-200 megabytes in size, and runs on Windows and macOS without much in the way of system requirements. If you are looking to play it or mess around with the files for some reason, here is what you actually need to know. Download it from the official store page or wherever the developer lists it. Do not grab it from shady torrent sites — the re-repackaged versions I have seen floating around sometimes bundle unwanted bloatware, and honestly it is not worth the headache. Once you have the installer, run it as administrator at least once. I learned that the hard way. My first install skipped the Steam overlay integration entirely and I spent twenty minutes trying to figure out why achievements were not triggering before I realized the game needed that initial elevated permission to write to the registry keys properly. The save files live in your local application data folder, not where most people would guess. On Windows it is under %LOCALAPPDATA%\ABedFullOfCats. On macOS it is buried in the usual ~/Library/Application Support/ path. If you are trying to backup saves or transfer them between machines, that is where you go. They are plain JSON files, so you can open and edit them if you want to manipulate inventory or skip a section you are stuck on.
Common Issues and What Actually Works
The game has a known stuttering problem on machines with more than eight CPU cores. The developer acknowledged it but never really patched it, which is frustrating because the engine seems to spawn threads aggressively on high-core systems. The workaround is setting the process affinity to six cores through Task Manager on Windows. Yes, it sounds stupid. It drops the frame stutter significantly, maybe 60-70 percent of the slowdown goes away. I ran it on a 16-core Ryzen machine and it was unplayable without that change. Another thing nobody talks about: the in-game hint system is broken if you progress past the second act without unlocking any achievements first. I hit this on my third playthrough because I had turned off achievements in my launcher settings. The hint counter freezes at zero and the help dialogue just loops the same two lines. Resetting your save file is basically the only fix. There is no config toggle for it. If you are trying to mod the game or extract assets, the executable is built on a slightly modified version of a common indie game engine, which means the asset packs are just regular archive formats renamed. You can pull textures, audio, and script files out with a standard extraction tool. I did this to pull a few backgrounds for a personal project, and the files came out clean with no DRM obfuscation. The scripting language they use is easy enough to read if you know basic C-style syntax — it is basically pseudocode with a few custom keywords.
Performance Tips That Actually Matter
Turn off V-Sync in the graphics options and set your refresh rate to match your monitor manually in the OS display settings. The vsync toggle in-game is tied to the wrong polling loop on most systems, which causes input lag that feels like 100 milliseconds even when your monitor says it has 1ms response time. I measured it with a camera against a stopwatch. The difference between vsync on and vsync off was noticeable enough to affect puzzle timing in the later sections. Also, if you are playing on a laptop, plug it in. The game does not throttle gracefully on battery power. It just runs at roughly half the frame rate with no warning indicator. I wasted an hour thinking something was wrong with my installation before I noticed the power cable was unplugged. The game is short, maybe six to eight hours for a first playthrough if you are solving puzzles without checking guides. The humor lands more often than it misses, and the artwork is solid for what it is. Not everything works perfectly, but it is a reasonable experience for an indie title at this price point. Just make sure you are on a supported system and follow the steps above if you run into issues.
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