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Calico is a day-in-the-life community sim game where you are given an important and adorable task: rebuild the town’s cat café and fill it with cute and cuddly creatures! Build up your café by filling it with cute furniture, fun decorations, yummy pastries, and get it bustling with animals again!

Calico is a cute, casual and cats game developed by Peachy Keen Games and published by Whitethorn Games and Maple Whispering Limited.
Released on December 15th 2020 is available on Windows and MacOS in 9 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil and Spanish - Latin America.

It has received 4,780 reviews of which 4,175 were positive and 605 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.42€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Calico into these genres:

Cute Casual Cats Indie LGBTQ+ Simulation Open World Relaxing Female Protagonist Character Customization Singleplayer RPG Life Sim Family Friendly 3D Magic Building Anime Dog Horses

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista or greater
  • Processor: 2 Ghz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 mb video memory, shader model 3.0+
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: any
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.8+
  • Processor: 3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630
  • Storage: 4 GB available space
  • Sound Card: any
  • Additional Notes: 64-bit only

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025
This is probably the most ghetto fabulous game I have ever played. But I would still recommend it. As a matter of fact, I cannot stop coming back to it >_< Let me explain... It is like a B grade horror movie. You know that one with the corny acting and shady screen production but you end up enjoying the whole thing regardless? THIS IS LIKE THAT!! It looks and feels unpolished and unrefined. But it is charming to play, despite all that. The aesthetic and gameplay are just downright wholesome and cozy, even with it's imperfections. You run a cafe, meet townsfolk and animals. You run around doing little quests, playing mini games to bake and stock your shop and you can decorate your home and character to your liking. The controls feel janky at first but they grow on you. There are minor bugs here and there but they are resolved easily with some trial and error, a hard reset is never needed. Literally takes me 5-10 sec to solve it. Most of the time it is just you hitting an odd camera angle or the timing of your action is off or you get confused with buttons. If you slow down, the screen and quest log usually can guide you in the right direction. It is all around cute and relaxing. Just take it for what it is...a ghetto fabulous, B grade game :D
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Jan. 2025
the game is great!! very cute & i love designing my own cafe. i do wish there was more to do in the game because i feel it’s very easy to complete and then there’s not much to do anymore :( but i do love the game and i rlly enjoyed my play through!! <3
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Jan. 2025
I recommend this, but with *extreme reservation*. The game is exactly what you see in the previews and little more. It feels like someone's first videogame, a game that one of your friends could have made. Calico is a game with a lot of fun ideas and style with shortcomings that ultimately leave one wanting more. Sadly my hopes are not exceedingly high we will be getting more, as their last big update came out 2 years ago. My first and biggest complaint is that *there is no way to expand or upgrade your cafe*. It seems like that should have been a natural first choice for game progression: unlocking more cases for more baked goods, a larger space for more seating, and most importantly *room for every cat you meet to come live at the cafe*. There are like, 20 cats in this game, and so many other animals too, but you can only keep 10 in the cafe at a time? This seems like an extreme oversight in game design that could have elevated this to the next level. Most other parts of the game seem based off of this missing concept: why give us more than one display case if all cases display the same 6 goods? Why give us so many pieces of furniture as quest rewards if you run out of meaningful places to put them? My second complaint is there is no indication that an NPC has a quest ready, other than you traversing the map to talk to them. No quest markers. No fast travel. This is Game Design 101, people. There is very little to the "sim" aspect of it as well. The NPCs have favorite treats but you never get a sense of knowing who is coming in and when. You gain hearts with them? But there is no progression of the relationship from it. No romance options. And my last complaint is the cooking minigames. I like that they are trying something different. But I feel like there should be a skill tree that helps you score higher in the games. (And the one that makes you play pool is just bad. Don't make a badly-working pool game and give *me* a low score for not being able to play it.) There is something to love here. I had fun with the design of the cats and other animals, the character creator has some great stylistic options, and your eventual unlocking of travel by bird is very satisfying. It just needs to cover more of the basics and get some "serious" polish before I would recommend it to anyone else. Even though $12 doesn't seem like much for the game to begin with, I would still highly recommend waiting for a sale - somewhere between $5-8 seems more fitting.
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Sept. 2024
perfect game for me, i feel empty now that I finished all the achievements,..,., I do wish there were more quests to do as I finished everything in 13 hours. very cute, very cozy, 10/10
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Sept. 2024
super cute if you are looking for a simple cozy game with a story line and no farming. you can also pet cats/animals, collect items/animals, change your look, and decorate your cafe. i wish you could hug the cats instead of shake them about but i did unexpectedly really like putting them on my head.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Calico is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

Calico is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

Calico received 4,175 positive votes out of a total of 4,780 achieving a rating of 8.44.
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Calico was developed by Peachy Keen Games and published by Whitethorn Games and Maple Whispering Limited.

Calico is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Calico is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Calico is not playable on Linux.

Calico is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Calico. Explore additional content available for Calico on Steam.

Calico does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Calico does not support Steam Remote Play.

Calico is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Calico.

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Calico
9.99€ -96% 9.99€ 0.42€
8.4
4,175
605
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Peachy Keen Games
Publisher
Whitethorn Games, Maple Whispering Limited
Release 15 Dec 2020
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