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[skylar-jay]

Hey so Cat Quest 3 is about two days from release, and the devs have, in the waiting time, dropped a WHOLE BUNCH of stuff that's making me go insane

To start, I love love LOVE making predictions for things I like, makes me go back and look for clues if I get it wrong, and gives me a little hit of dopamine if I get it right :)

With that being said, I had originally thought CQ3 would be the finale. Not the final game released, the devs had already said a Cat Quest 1.5 is planned, but the finale of the story.

My reasoning being: Desmond mentioned CQ3 would have two endings (which is already making me crazy but it gets worse(better)). I logically assumed, seeing as CQ3 will be about the third and final artifact needed for Aelius to start the Apawcalypse, that it would be a good and bad end. The good end, where you prevent Aelius from getting the artifact, and a bad one where he does. That would supposedly have to leave this as the final game, otherwise the devs would have to choose an ending to be canon (and usually the point of multiple endings is to let the player decide that), but seeing as Cat Quest is familiar with time travel shenanigans I can see how things might change a little bit here. Maybe one or two extra games for both endings' timelines. Or perhaps the difference in the endings isn't significant enough to warrant two separate timelines (either you help Aelius get the artifact or you fight him type thing, either way he ends up with the artifact (or doesn't! That's possible too!)).

But, also with how the story has been set up, this seems like a reasonable end! Cat Quest 1 being the prequel, Cat Quest 1.5 being the true start of the story, Cat Quest 2 being the middle, and Cat Quest 3 being end. A full rounded story, right?

WELL

as you've probably guessed (or if you pay attention to the Cat Quest discord server) that's not the case.

It's probably just one or two extra games, right?

WRONG

According to Desmond, the Cat Quest franchise has a possibility for NINE games. Y'know, like how a a cat has nine lives! But!!! What are they gonna do with all those games when it feels like they have a completed story in just four? Especially since we know the devs already have all nine games planned.

If you would allow me to make yet another prediction:

As of right now (having not played Cat Quest 3 yet. This will probably change once I see both endings), I can see two things happening:

One, this is actually a multi-arc story. We've seen hints in the end of Cat Quest 2 that alludes to there being more Old Masters than just Aelius. As it seems he talks to someone else about the Apawcalypse. So perhaps there's something more at play here? Like, maybe Aelius wasn't the first or only one sealed in the Zero Dimension, and these other guys have plans of their own, or maybe one big plan that they're all working towards together. (Maybe trying to take the land back? They used to inhabit it after all, and we only know what happened to the Old Masters in Felinguard and The Lupus Empire) Either way, it's too soon for me to make complex predictions on what that may be, since we only have Aelius' plan to work with. But it does seem like he's working with at least one other person.

Second: perhaps some of these games will be more prequel stuff! We already know the devs are going back to make a Cat Quest 1.5, so why not other things? Maybe a game that takes place during the Dragon War where you play as Felinguard! Though, this one seems more unlikely. And while I'd love to learn more about Felinguard and Lupus, I also wouldn't mind learning more about the world as a whole!

So far the only locations we know are Felinguard, The Lupus Empire, and the Purribbean (I think that's what they called it, it could've been the Pawribbean). We definitely know there's more countries than just that, and also more species than just cats and dogs. Heck, in CQ3 we actually get introduced to two new species! Rats, which is what the game's main focus is, and rabbits. From one of the trailers, you catch a glimpse of a rabbit mage, so maybe the people of this world are actually all (or at least most) domesticated animals.

Whatever happens, I'm excited :3

I just hope my hyperfixation doesn't die before I'm satisfied (looking at you, Slime Rancher)