In yesterday’s post, I spoke about how I have setup my Android mobile phone, and some of the applications I use on it. I decided to separate out Meow Tower in particular, talking a little bit about how I find it to be a good mini distraction and break!

What Is It?

Meow Tower is a nonogram puzzle game, where cells are filled in to form a later pixelated image. Meow Tower adds cute graphics and a story, with goals of expanding the aforementioned tower to add more cats and gaining more information about them by unlocking stories and trinkets. The cats are all themed, with their rooms reflecting aspects of their personality, making scrolling through the tower visually fun as you see tea drinking aristocrat cat Eddy living in teal opulence compared to skateboard loving Milo living a floor down in her messy garage-type room, or with Morris underneath with his model train collection.

Gameplay

The game uses pencils as a form of accessing the nonogram puzzles, with new pencils replenished every fifteen minutes, maxing out at eight. There are two modes, with Normal having a 10x10 grid and costing only one pencil to play, and Hard on a 15x15 grid with a two pencil cost.

Completing a level with as little mistakes as possible gains you more tuna cans, which is the currency of the game. These can be spent on buying furniture for the cats living in your tower, on skins to change the game’s appearance, or on the recently introduced Memory Cabinet, where you can unlock nostalgic items for the cats to place in their rooms.

When you buy and place furniture, the cat living in that room starts to warm up to you, creating conversations you can respond to, developing a story aspect where the cats become more personable and have relationships with you.

Cost

You can, of course purchase additional pencils and remove ads with in-app purchases, though with AdGuard Home running, I haven’t spent anything on this game, and like how I have to wait before I play more levels or else I feel I’ll just be blasting through the game.

The only negative I do have is how a couple of cats are locked behind paywalls, with a time sensitive Christmas themed cat and a Picnic themed cat costing £12.49 each to unlock, a fee I find to be very expensive for what the game is, whereas I may have considered the cost if the cats were significantly cheaper.

Why I Play

I like the mind teasing aspect of the puzzles, trying to work out where to tap without getting any errors, and it’s nice being able to just pop in every few hours for a quick break and play a couple of levels before returning back to whatever it was I was doing beforehand. It’s a great little game to squeeze into a few minutes, and as the puzzles can be left mid-game and picked up at any time, it’s very flexible too. I’ve tried other nonogram games, but this is my favourite due to how the game handles solving the nonograms, with the tapping and grid completion done intuitively.