
“A story about cat girls … with bite.” Nekos have evolved in the shadows of human society. Beautiful. Mysterious. Chaotic. And now, three of them live with you. Will you be able to get past the stigma and grow closer to them? OmOneko is a tale of cat and mouse... and rats.
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When our main character finds himself as the owner of three nekos – cat girls – his quiet world is suddenly beset with the conjoined problems that having three cats and girls in the house can bring.
Overcoming both everyday and not-so-common difficulties, will our main character finally find peace and stability again—and maybe something more?
OmOneko is a bishoujo-style game made by fans like you. It uses a text and sprite-based visual novel model with a NVL styled text box.
This game was inspired by other passion projects such as Katawa Shoujo and Doki Doki Literature Club; since those games are free, so is this one!

A unique and more cinematic presentation of the choice-driven Visual Novel medium.
Three unique routes and ten possible endings.
An engaging tale told by unusual characters containing over 260,000 words. Several deep and nuanced stand-alone stories woven together means 20+ hours of story-rich gaming.
Original soundtrack of more than 50 songs and variations.
Several hundred environmental and character images, and over 200 backgrounds.
No AI was used in the making of this game.
Extras area including a “Library” to view all manga, graphic novels, and comics that you unlock along the way, including: SinKitty, Nyako Maids, Red Rocket, Cat’n a Rat, and more!

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Languages: English
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OmOneko is a free visual novel, and once again I was amazed by a vast labour of love which has produced so much good text and very attractive and evocative artwork, within an overarching branching story. There is a lot of reading here, and I expected to skip over much of it but instead got fully immersed and read everything. My play time represents playthroughs to (eventually) get each of the three main endings (and their associated achievements), plus the dead-end endings, and the final "read all chapters" achievement. The three cat-women Nekos are wonderful characters: the patient, non-confrontational, and caring Clawdia, the fun-loving hyper-active Pepper, and the reserved and traumatised Shimi. But the paths for each of them reveal much more about their deeper selves, and about their fears, frustrations and hopes. They inhabit a world which largely regards them as being on a spectrum from "dangerous others" to "quietly tolerated super pets and/or tame companions", but the game whispers "what if we just saw them as people?" Of the humans, the main character's ex-partner is unashamedly evil, but actually I found the main character himself to be more problematic and disagreeable in his laziness, his paternalistic "master-servant" approach to the Nekos, and his overriding concern to keep his mother (and de facto "landlady") ignorant of the Neko-related changes in her home, rather than championing them. My favourite human was actually the emergency doctor, though I also applauded any tentative demonstrations of confidence and autonomy by the neighbour Veronika. Overall I invested a lot of time and attention to this visual novel because the game warranted it, because I enjoyed it, and because the developer deserved it, and I don't regret any of the hours spent.
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Didn’t think a free VN would hook me like this.Good pacing, thoughtful writing, and the vibe is pretty unique. Definitely stands out.
Wonderful. For looks + story. Play it ! (native Linux too ! and its Free ! ) GOT-TO-HAVE (by/inspired DONTNOD) ------------------ -Life is Strange (Chloe+Max) 5 episodes, episode 1=free to try -Life is Strange: Before the Storm (Chloe) (get the DeLuxe !) -Remember Me (fps, GREAT+GOOD gameplay!) -Alice: Madness Returns (in Wonderland) plarformer. BIG world. (McGee Alice in Wonderland is now FREE, at myabonden....) GOOD too. FUN WITH: -NICE: The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (free!) -CATS: OmOneko (free!) -OLDIE: Beneath a Steel Sky (free!) NEW: Beyond a Steel Sky TRY (bit serious games): -Harmony The Fall of Reverie (has demo!) -Gerda A Flame in Winter (has demo!) BeCareful: -Sex & Coffee (relaxed HC fun, Demo!. release May2025) -Secret with Sophia -Lite version- (free!) JustTheGirls: -Everlasting Summer (free!) (guide exists) -Frosty Kiss (free!) (after Miku ending) Basic: -The Clockwork Man (puzzle game) -Cogs (puzzle) -Portal (3D puzzle) -DOOM 3 BFG Edition (fps classic) -Left 4 Dead 2 (fps, shoot zombies) -Serious Sam 3: BFE (fps, kill them all)
Didn't finish yet, but i'm really liking this so far, very cute and can feel deep on the right moments. Let's see what lore there's yet to uncover! ------------- edit 1 (still haven't finished the game yet, 12.1 hours in now! possible lil spoiler ahead) : [spoiler] We gotta let the golden cat cook! [/spoiler] ------------- edit 2: I just finished it I... don't know what to say, just go play it if you haven't already spoilers ahead! [spoiler]PLEASE DON'T DO ANYTHING TO CLAWDIA I BEG YOU DON'T HURT THE PRINCESS AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY END OF PART ONE WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THERE WILL BE A PART 2????? WHEN, HOW, WILL IT BE ANOTHER GAME, AN UPDATE?? WHAT!?!? there was another option that would give me a direct simple "happy ending", i know it, i clicked on it at one point, so i guess this "ending" i got is the true clawdia "ending" right? are all routes like this? do all of them have a "true ending" that is just a cliffhanger to part two? Now i need more Clawdia. [/spoiler]
I LOVE MY CRUSHED TOMATO WILDGIRL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Not usually into the whole furry thing, but this is not bad. Writing is very good. Yeah overall seem to be a good game here.
Omoneko isn't a bad visual novel. I enjoyed the games melancholy tone early on and how your main off camera guy comes across as more of a tried parent than a generic nice guy. Furthermore in this case censorship works in the game's favor he doesn't see the girls in that way and it sin't suggested that you should either. Although it is hard to to see the appeal of Clawdia's see through dress. her outfit is enough to see her curves but still be SFW. Claw's outfit isn't the only suggestive thing in Omo but that kind of talk comes across as something to lighten the mood a hint towards X content. best of all the nature of the neko girls and how they are treated rasies so many questions about the world outside your guys house. This games only flaw is how it doesn't have many choices or branching paths. More interactivity could help keep things interesting.
(I haven't quite finished the game yet but I'll likely update this when I do!) **I do recommend reading this VN for yourself, completely blind.** This game was recommended to me via a Twitter Thread and its honestly been weighing on my mind after doing the Shimi route as my first and seeing all the choices. -- This VN is a really interesting read, being essentially a spin on "catgirl" VNs and showing them as if they were Real and based off mostly Cat, less girl. Their english is Fragmented but they can understand it quite well, akin to how it feels to own a cat. Along with this, the characters feel insanely Real, Like everyone had someone like Gubo (i forgot his name), Flirty and unserious who can go a bit far in his pranks but overall a fun guy and can really lock in. -- (SPOILERS FOR SHIMI ROUTE) The message of the Shimi route of "Using old items to fuel new lives is what the dead would have wanted instead of wallowing in misery" is a message thats quite rare in most media (I only remember it also being present in Blackberry Honey.) Along with that, the consequence of bringing in a stray leading to both of them being in a world stuck inbetween is a strange message but it does accurately fit when two "forbidden lovers" get together, being with anyone else feels alien and it feels like the world doesn't accommodate you anymore. --- However, the only issue is the fact that getting all achievements requires quite a good amount of tedium (replaying routes and chapters until all ??? are removed.) But other than that, I would **highly recommend** playing this game for yourself, and maybe even referring others to it.
cool
really solid so far
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