Cats vs Dogs: Tents & Trees

M45Studio

About this game

Two species that will never agree. One grid. One solution.

Cats vs Dogs is a tents and trees puzzle wearing a friendlier coat. Every rival on the board is waiting for exactly one of your pets to sit beside it. The numbers along the edges tell you how many pets belong in each row and each column. There is exactly one arrangement that satisfies all of them, and you can always reason your way there.

No guessing. No luck. No dead ends.

HOW TO PLAY
• Tap a tile to cycle it: empty, grass, your pet, empty again.
• Every rival needs exactly one of your pets directly beside it — up, down, left or right. Never diagonally.
• Your own pets can never touch each other, not even at the corners.
• The number beside each row and column is how many of your pets belong in it. Green means solved. Red means you have gone over.
• Trees block tiles. Plan around them.

PICK A SIDE
Team Cat or Team Dog. Choose once and the board flips around you: play as the cats and the dogs become the ones you place your pets beside. Switch sides from the main menu whenever you like and replay every level from the other point of view.

WHY IT STAYS ON YOUR PHONE
• Pure deduction. Every grid has one unique solution, and a solver checks it before it ships.
• Hand-built levels. No random generators. Every puzzle is authored, tested and beatable.
• Plays offline. Trains, planes, waiting rooms, dead zones. No connection required.
• No ads in the middle of a puzzle. No timers. No lives. No streak to protect. Put it down halfway and come back next week — your board is where you left it.
• Light and dark themes, easy on the eyes at any hour.
• Learn it in thirty seconds. Five-step tutorial, then you are solving.
• Earn paw prints for every level you clear and spend them on the harder packs.
• Colourblind-friendly: every colour cue is paired with a shape or a number.

IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU WILL LIKE THIS
Tents and trees puzzles. Picross and nonogram. Sudoku, kakuro, hitori, futoshiki. Minesweeper with no ads. Grid puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles and brain teasers. Cozy games, cat games and kitten games. It will feel familiar in one level and different by the third.

GOOD FOR
Five minutes in a queue. Winding down before bed. Keeping your brain awake on a commute. Anyone who wants a calm puzzle that respects them enough not to nag.

QUICK ANSWERS
Is it free? Yes. Every level in the app is free to play.
Does it work offline? Yes, completely. It is an offline game with no internet needed at any point.
Are there ads in the middle of a level? No. Nothing interrupts a puzzle.
Is it hard? The first five grids teach you. The later packs will take you a while.
Can kids play it? Yes. It is a quiet logic puzzle for kids and adults, with no chat, no timers and no pressure.
What if I get stuck? Every board is solvable by logic alone, so there is always a next move to find. Hints are there if you want one.

Cats vs Dogs is early and growing. Twenty-five hand-built tents and trees grids today; bigger boards, daily puzzles and new pet expressions are on the way. Tell us what you want next — we read everything.

What’s new

Welcome to Cats vs Dogs — thanks for downloading!

A quiet logic puzzle: every level has exactly one solution, reachable by deduction alone, no guessing. Pick cats or dogs and the board reskins around you.

This first release: a set of hand-built, solver-verified levels, light and dark themes, a 30-second tutorial and colorblind-friendly feedback. More levels and daily puzzles are on the way.