How to Play Six Cats Under - Beginner Guide

Six Cats Under is built for one sitting: a pixel-art apartment, six cats and a ghost who wants them safely outside. This page gets you from a blank screen to your first working interactions — the full ordered run lives in the walkthrough.

How do you actually play it?

Everything happens through the mouse: you click objects in the rooms and watch which cat reacts. You never control a cat directly, there is no inventory to manage and no keyboard controls to learn — if an object reacts to the cursor, it can be clicked. The apartment is one connected puzzle board, so an action you trigger in the bathroom can move a cat you need in the kitchen.

First-session fact	What it means
Controls	Mouse click only — no keyboard shortcuts, no menus
Who you play	The grandmother’s ghost, not one of the cats
Typical run	Two to three minutes once the chain clicks
Fail states	None — no death, no timer, unlimited retries
Win condition	All six cats walk out the front door

What should I click first?

Start with the two moves that unlock half the apartment:

1. Click the wall clock so it rings — the black cat Geoffrey wakes up, and he is the engine of almost every puzzle that follows.

2. Flush the toilet whenever a cat sits in the wrong spot — the sound pulls Geoffrey across the room, and you can repeat it as often as you like.

From there the chain keeps building — window, lamp, shelf fan, TV remote — and the full walkthrough carries it step by step, with a screenshot for every click.

Can you get permanently stuck?

No. Six Cats Under has no death mechanic and no time limit, so a half-finished attempt just leaves every object waiting to be clicked again. The game tracks a single progress bar: when the sixth cat crosses the threshold, the run ends. If you want a preview of how much work each cat actually needs, the difficulty ranking shows which three cats carry puzzles and which three simply walk out.

Where should a beginner go next?

Take the walkthrough when you want the whole run in order; jump straight to the sink puzzle when the kitchen stalls you, because that is where most first runs stop. For questions about length, controls or what counts as finishing, the FAQ answers them in one place.