Catatonic Game — Press Kit

Last updated: August 29, 2025

Description

Catatonic Game is a hand-drawn, hand-animated puzzle adventure with a spooky-playful 1930s cartoon vibe. Combining exploration, clue gathering, light platforming, and minigames with interrogation and non-lethal boss encounters, it offers a mystery that is unsettling yet charming.

You play as Katrina, a housecat suddenly transformed into an anthropomorphic heroine after being pulled into New Marilyn City. To return home to her owner Anna, Katrina must solve puzzles, interrogate eccentric characters, and outwit bosses using environmental tricks, evidence, and empathy — never combat.

History

Fred Da Dead Productions was founded by four cousins in Bahrain, each with backgrounds in animation, music, programming, writing, and marketing. Catatonic Game began as a passion project to blend the spooky charm of old cartoons with modern puzzle storytelling. It has since grown into one of the first hand-drawn, story-driven puzzle adventures from the Middle East, backed by an original soundtrack and an international celebrity voice cast.

Features

• Pacifist survival — Outsmart foes with timing, pathing, and environment .

• Interrogation & evidence — Present clues, read tells, and unravel character backstories.

• Environmental boss battles — Dizzy and disarm larger-than-life bosses through slapstick puzzle chains.

• Exploration & platforming — Traverse eerie, hand-animated districts full of secrets.

• 1930s-flavored minigames — Switchboards, projectors, shell games, lock-picking, and more.

• Hand-drawn & animated — Every frame crafted in authentic rubber-hose style.

• Original soundtrack — Jazz-fusion with psychedelic twists.

• Celebrity voice cast —

  • Leilani Shiu (The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett) as Katrina

  • Linda Young (Dragon Ball Z, Frieza) as Tiny Bambina Bella

  • Doug Walker (Nostalgia Critic) as Forrest Hanks

  • Brendan “Bootsy” Castner (AVGN, Board James) as Mr. Finger

Kickstarter Trailer