Released Jun 15, 2011 Free Very Positive Counts toward your Steam games

The Cat and the Coup

By Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad

Free to Play Indie Cats Historical Short Puzzle Singleplayer Surreal

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Reviews 1,108 Very Positive

Players yesterday 2 at the busiest moment

Owners 100K–200K estimated

The Cat and the Coup is a game tagged Free to Play, Indie and Cats by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad, released Jun 15, 2011. It has 1,108 Steam reviews (Very Positive). It has an estimated 100K–200K owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include Serpent Fusion, The Puppet Master and Escape Rebooted.

In The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off shelves, scattering his papers, and scratching him.

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Everything Steam lists for The Cat and the Coup · record updated 1 day ago

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Overview

App ID95700

Release dateJun 15, 2011

Last change number40171238

Last record update1 day ago

App type: Game
Developer: Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad
Publisher: Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad, USC Games
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Website: thecatandthecoup.github.io

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Steam Deck: Playable
Controller: Partial support

Single-playerPartial controller supportFamily Sharing

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Build	Branch	Updated
3675997	public	Mar 25, 2019

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ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
95701	—	Windows	807.0 MB	242.6 MB	6634475031183582295
95702	—	macOS	818.0 MB	246.6 MB	2918602450540054462

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	3675997	Mar 25, 2019	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/The Cat and the Coup

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
TheCatAndTheCoup.exe		Windows
TheCatAndTheCoup.app		macOS

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Filesup to 0

Save locations0

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The Cat and the Coup

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