To be honest, as a veteran player who has been playing mobile games since the Symbian era, I have witnessed the ups and downs of many genres over the years. I used to play the "Mysterious Island" series on Nokia N73, and used a mobile phone with a numeric keyboard to decipher the puzzles one by one. The immersion was still unforgettable. Later, when smartphones became popular, various Japanese text adventures and love simulation games slowly began to increase in number, but there were not many that truly combined decryption and love.
I'm not going to brag about it, but I recently tried "Cat's Date", and it brought me back a little bit of the feeling I had when I played "Time Cycle". The protagonist is an ordinary girl who runs a detective agency. She suddenly receives a huge commission and then discovers that a door has been opened deep in her memory. The setting of multiple time and space is not novel, but the advantage is that the plots are interlocking and the foreshadowing is very natural. The difficulty of the decryption part is moderate, and it is neither stuck nor too easy. The key is to have a sense of enlightenment like "ah, so this is it", which really pokes me.
The painting style is Japanese-style thick paint, and the vertical painting dynamics are quite delicate. Character dialogue options will affect favorability and plot branches. The emotional line is not that industrial saccharine, but slowly heats up as the puzzle is solved. It is in line with my understanding of "love" as an experienced player - not love at first sight, but a tacit understanding after going through hardships.
The developer is Xiamen Youli Information. It seems that they have made several female-oriented AVGs before. This time they have added puzzle elements and it can be seen that they have put their heart into it. The charging model is free download and in-app purchase, but the main line does not seem to have mandatory gold points so far, and it can be passed with zero krypton. Today's mobile game industry is impetuous, and fewer and fewer people can calm down and tell stories properly, so it's quite emotional to see a work like this.
If you are also the kind of veteran player who likes to turn on the lamp late at night, have a cup of hot tea, and slowly solve the plot and solve puzzles, you can try this "Cat's Stay". Maybe in those broken memory fragments, I can find some familiarity with staying up late to clear the level when I was young 😌