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Cat Park

In Cat Park your city is building a park just for cats. Your goal is, of course, to stop that from happening (because who would want a park just for cats?). Using disinformation tactics like emotional language…

22 October 2022

Cat Park is a visual novel developed by Tilt Studio, released 22 October 2022 on Web browser.

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What Cat Park is

Cat Park is a visual novel game developed by Tilt Studio and released in 2022. It is available on Web browser only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Cat Park is based on “active inoculation” theory, pioneered by the University of Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab. Much as vaccinations work by exposing subjects to an innocuous strain of a virus in order to trigger an immune response, empirical studies indicate that the controlled experience of disinformation through a game can build cognitive resistance to disinformation in the real world. This concept is also known as “prebunking.” Rather than simply waiting for lies to spread and then debunking them with a fact-check, the goal of Cat Park is to proactively educate about common disinformation techniques so that players are better prepared to spot fake news no matter what form it…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Cat Park launched on 22 October 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.

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When did Cat Park come out?
Cat Park was released on 22 October 2022 for Web browser.

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