Ratalaika games is a publisher that is known for publishing titles with incredibly easy achievement lists attached to them. Developed by EVEV01, Mrs. Cat Between Worlds aims to deliver precision platforming to it’s players. Not to be confused with “Mrs. Cat In Mars” this title is 2 games in one, which each title containing 50 levels for you to traverse your way through. A Mrs Cat double pack if you will, including both Mrs Cat In Mars and Mrs Cat In Neptune, both similar in nature, but slightly different in their approach to gameplay.

Sadly, there is some bad news for the achievement hunters among you, double pack doesn’t mean double the achievements in this case as there is only a grand total of 1000 Gamerscore on offer. A full completion for the more hardcore achievement hunters should take you no longer than around 20-30 minutes, but Mrs. Cat’s adventure can prove to be quite a fun one and could be worth sticking around to help see her through to the very end.

Mars will see Mrs. Cat needing to traverse invisible obstacles. A mechanic you will most likely think is pretty cool at first, until you star to hit the later level and find yourself screaming at the television in frustration. Falling boxes and moving saws are out to get you whilst trying to platform across each level to an exit portal, luckily you can find some helpfully and some less helpfully placed Reveal Potions that will makes obstacles visible for a brief moment of time.

You will need some precise jumping and timing skills, especially as you begin to reach the later levels and the game has you jumping through portals whilst dodging saws and boxes (still invisible) as well as spikes on certain parts of the floor which are again, invisible, so keep your eye out for those reveal potions and don’t forget to try and grab an Orange Fire Stone when you spot one, as you’ll need this for an achievement!

There are 50 levels to complete on Mars, however you only need to progress through 25 at the minimum towards achievements, but there is fun to be had here and if you enjoy a challenge, you can easily continue on.

Neptune will pit Mrs. Cat against falling platforms, an abundance of spikes and later on, giant saws and swinging obstacles. With new threats comes new abilities, you now have the capability to hang against walls to give you more leeway timing jumps (you’ll need it) and you can also dash sideways and that’s super useful. Aside from that, Neptune is summed up with a dash, jump and a hang and I couldn’t help but want to dive back into the Mars world as I found it much more engaging with it’s invisibility mechanic.

One things each planet does share is an awesome, upbeat and catchy soundtrack, although I even would say I prefer Mars’ soundtrack over Neptune’s, they are both good and compliment a 2D platformer rather nicely.

Mars Or Neptune?

Overall it’s a decent little platforming game that is worth your time. Mar’s world more so than Neptune, but with an easy enough achievement list that doesn’t take long to power through at all. It could be tempting enough to dive in. Only real complaints come in the form of Neptune needing something a little more. The invisibility mechanic was a neat touch in Mars but it leaves Neptune feeling a tad underwhelming.  This and you can’t actually switch between each title without fully closing out to your Xbox dashboard, which I found a little annoying.

For achievement hunters on Xbox, you can grab Mrs. Cat Between Worlds for yourself for an entry price of £4.99. If however, you are just looking for a decent little platformer that doesn’t prompt much thinking, you can grab just Mrs Cat In Mars on the Steam Store for a very low £0.80p. I say this because it is easily the best of the two in my opinion.