Secret Cat Forest - Cute cat collection

Currently, gaming can sometimes be more stressful than relaxing…

So, why not wind down and make friends with cats by playing this game?

Craft items and furniture that these adorable kitties will adore!

Craft each item and the most charming cats may make an appearance...maybe...

Just sit back, relax, and immerse yourself in the game!

After bonding with the cats, you'll get to observe their unique behaviors.

Befriend as many cats as you can and complete your own cat album!

You can even download the cat album images to use as wallpapers for your PC or mobile device!

■ Features

- Simple and intuitive controls!

- Real-time Day/Night cycle

- Numerous adorable kitties

- Delightful animations

- Stunning animated backgrounds

- Cloud save feature linked to Google Play game service

■ How to play

1.Create furniture that cats love

2.Use a fishing rod to catch fish

3.Take a break by turning off the screen and return later

4.Watch as the cats appear!!

- Tap on the tree on the right to collect wood and build furniture!

- Replenish your fish inventory by fishing.

Whenever cats visit, they will eat up your fish.

- Acquire items through fishing or gifts from the kitties.

Upgrade by using these items!

- Swipe from the right corner of the screen to access the "Archive" section (like turning pages in a book).

- Complete your Archives to unlock a Special Album.

- Utilize Furniture Collection when you are low on wood!

※ Craft special furniture (Gold?) to discover a new area!😻

■ Cloud Save

- Data is saved in the cloud, not on a server. Secure your progress by saving/linking your data to Google Play Games.

■ Permissions

- File access, camera: Permission required to save Special Album images to your device's album.

****** FAQ ******

Q. I see ads but never receive rewards.

A. Enter "safemode0" in the "Enter Code" section within the settings.

Q. Ads are not appearing for an extended period. (Ads not ready)

A. Check 'CS - FAQ' in the settings located at the top right.

Q. Even after completing the Profile Archive, I'm still receiving Shards!

A. There are extra Shards in the game (Approximately 20.) When you collect more than 20, figure out which secret furniture (Gold?!) is awaiting you and craft it using the shards!

Secret Cat Forest Guide: Tips, Tricks & Strategies to Make Friends with All the Cats in the Forest

Be Wise with Upgrades

Speaking of upgrades, these are necessary to increase your chances of gathering materials, as well as speed up some activities in the game. We can’t emphasize enough how progress can be rather slow, which is pretty unsurprising for a game that’s meant to be relaxing. But for those who can’t wait to get acquainted with all the cats and scratch their completionist itch, upgrades can certainly speed things up a bit.

There are 4 available upgrades in the game, all of which can be accessed through the upgrades menu, which is symbolized by a star with an arrow pointing upward. Pictured below are the 4 upgrades you can take advantage of and their initial cost in materials:

So many upgrades, so little time.

Now this is one of the tricky parts of the game: at the onset, you might think that the cost to upgrade isn’t so high—that is, until you realize that resource-gathering is slow and getting the exact item you want won’t always happen. For instance, leveling up your fish storage will only require 300 wood in the beginning. This initial upgrade will add 50 more fish to your storage limit. The problem is that the Infinity Tree can be a bit slow in producing wood and between this upgrade and making furniture, the latter tends to take priority. If you do manage to upgrade your fish storage, the succeeding upgrade requirements will be exceedingly high.

Still, upgrades are important if you want progression to happen at a faster pace. The key is to know which upgrades to prioritize first. Of course, your luck when it comes to acquiring materials can play a part in determining which upgrades will be available to you at a certain time. Regardless, here are our tips when you want to be wise with upgrades:

Invest in Infinity Tree upgrades first. As you will discover rather quickly, wood is basically the primary “currency” for almost everything, including both upgrades and crafting furniture. Fortunately, the initial upgrade costs for the Infinity Tree are a small number of Supplements (represented by a flask containing green liquid). Supplements can be gained by opening Kitty’s Gift boxes. Though Kitty’s Gift gives random items as well as wood, Supplements tend to appear more frequently compared to other materials such as Thread, Yarn, Umbrella Parts, etc.

Naturally, the cost will get higher the more you upgrade, but since wood is a crucial material, make an effort to upgrade the Infinity Tree whenever you can. In this stage of the game, Supplements are solely dedicated to upgrading the Infinity Tree anyway so you won’t have to split the resource with something else. 

Upgrade the workbench once. This will cost 500 wood, which you can say is a bit expensive, but it will allow you to craft 2 items at once. The next upgrade comes at an exorbitant 1,500 wood, which will allow you to craft 3 items at once. As tempting as it might be to upgrade the workbench as many times as you can afford, this isn’t really necessary. If you haven’t been upgrading the Infinity Tree, there’s really no point in upgrading your workbench twice or thrice when you might not be able to afford the cost of crafting multiple furniture items anyway.

And even if you have been upgrading the Infinity Tree, you might not be able to make use of the extra workbench anyway since earning wood still won’t be as fast and it’s more than likely that 1 furniture item would have already been crafted by the time you’ve earned enough wood to start crafting another.

Upgrade the fish storage later. To be more specific, only upgrade the fish storage when you’ve been consistently visited by 5 or more cats all at once. As mentioned, each cat consumes 20 fish from your supply so to really maximize this upgrade, you need lots of cats to visit you at one time or else you’ll be left with a surplus of fish that can easily be replenished with a quick trip down the river.

Of course, getting multiple cats to visit you means continuously furnishing your house with furniture that will attract multiple cats and not just the same ones. That said, instead of spending wood to upgrade the fish storage, you can put this off for later and invest wood for crafting different furniture items.

Upgrade the fishing rod when you can finally afford it. Admittedly, the fishing rod takes the longest time to upgrade as it requires Fishing Reels. This item doesn’t seem to be as common as, say, Supplements whenever you open Kitty’s Gift. It will take a while to collect the required Fishing Reels for an upgrade, but when you do manage to gather them all, don’t hesitate to upgrade the fishing rod as doing so will increase your chances of collecting Assembly Parts and Kitty Archive Shards whenever you go fishing.

There’s one more item in the upgrades menu and that’s the Special Craft option.

Special Crafting makes special stuff!

Crafting a special item requires Whiskers, which you can only collect after the 7th day of claiming your Attendance Rewards (more on this later). Until such time, you won’t be able to really make use of this feature. Through the Special Craft option, you may exchange Whiskers for wood, or craft items not included in the furniture menu such as a Tropical Chime, Moon Shard, Rainbow Shard, Toy Duck, and so on. The rarer the item, the more Whiskers are required.

Watch Ads for Bonuses

Like most, if not all, mobile games, Secret Cat Forest also gives you bonuses whenever you watch ads. There are 3 bonuses you can avail of, which are pictured below:

Conveniences for a moment of your time.

In the case of the fishing pot bonus, the number of canned fish you’ll get after watching an ad will depend on the current level of your fishing rod.

The good thing about these ads is that they’re completely optional and the first two bonuses have an interval of 1 hour each before you can watch another ad. Additionally, you can choose to continuously watch the ads for boosting wood collection every 2 minutes, but that really isn’t necessary unless you’re close to gathering the wood requirement for a particular furniture item or upgrade.

On the whole, you can watch these ads anytime then return to the game an hour later to fish, collect wood, or craft furniture. By then, you can watch another ad and let the game idle.

Approaching Furniture Crafting

Aside from gathering wood and fishing, crafting furniture is another significant part of Secret Cat Forest. There are tons of adorable, eye-catching furniture items you can craft and these can be accessed in the furniture menu, which is represented by a couch symbol. Each furniture type has 4 variants, with the exception of items such as the Warm Stove, Floors, and the Long Ladder.

For example, rug-type furniture items can either be the Red Rug, Diamond Rug, Fish Rug, or Kitty Rug. You can easily switch between variants by simply clicking on the image of the item. Press the check symbol on the right to use your preferred variant. If you don’t have a particular variant, click the hammer symbol to craft it if you have enough resources.

Prepare to customize!

The further you scroll down, the more these furniture items become expensive. Some require just a couple of hundred wood while others will need wood numbering in the thousands. Some variants are also more expensive than others.

Don’t look at us like that, Oreo! We’re trying our best!

More furniture items will be available once you’re able to unlock other areas of the house. For instance, if you craft a Long Ladder, this will give you access to the 2nd floor, which will let you craft furniture items specifically exclusive to that room. Once you’ve unlocked the 2nd floor, you can unlock a secret area when you craft the Golden Cushion, and so on. Currently, there are about 4 areas of the house you can unlock, including the 2nd floor. Each area has their own unlock requirements.

Secret rooms? This house is certainly bigger than it looks!

With the myriad of furniture items you can choose from and with the way wood can be a little bit slow to gather, which ones should you craft first?

This is a bit tricky to answer as there are actually quite a few things you need to consider when crafting furniture, and we don’t just mean wood allocation. In the beginning, you might get tempted to craft every furniture variant for each type of furniture item, but don’t fall into this trap as this can be extremely counterproductive if you want to maximize your wood allocation while attracting as many cats to your house as possible. Crafting every furniture variant may please the completionist or interior designer in you, but you can save this activity for later.

One other thing about crafting furniture is that some types and variants take much, much longer to make than others. Usually, the more expensive they are, the more time it takes to complete their crafting process. Some even take more than 24 hours to craft. This is where having at least 1 extra workbench can come in handy.