Nekosekai key art: a company of armoured, robed and hooded cats charging across a parchment field beneath the game's calligraphic wordmark.

Nekosekai

Your cats fight while you work.

A tiny idle RPG that docks above your Windows taskbar. A party of cats battles endless waves in a strip at the bottom of your screen, levelling, looting and hauling back chests whether you're watching or not.

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Free to play on PC via Steam. In development. Release date to be announced.

The idea

It lives above your taskbar

Not a window you alt-tab to. Nekosekai is a transparent, always-on-top strip that sits above the taskbar and stays out of your way. Clicks pass straight through it to whatever is behind, and it never steals focus from what you're doing.

Real capture of the battle strip, composited onto a desktop.

What it is

A collectible idle RPG that lives on your taskbar

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Out of the way by design

A transparent strip docked above the taskbar. Click-through while idle, never takes focus. It sits beside your work instead of on top of it.

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Classes are loot

New classes are discovered through Class Relics found in Adventure and Special Boss encounters, turning entirely new playstyles into collectible rewards.

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Runs without you

Your party keeps adventuring while you work, browse or game. Come back to loot, progression, and resources waiting to be claimed.

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Party building that matters

Front, middle and back slots shape how each cat fights, while classes, skills and gear let you build different party setups.

The party

3 slots. Many classes.

You start with one cat and earn the rest. Every class holds a different line, and every sprite below is taken straight out of the game.

Front

Pawladin

Sword and shield. Steps out to meet whatever arrives and takes the hits so the back line doesn't.

Front

Purrserker

Greatsword first, questions never. Trades armour for raw damage and a self-buff that stacks up mid-fight.

Back

Cateye

Holds the line and shoots over it. The longest reach in the party, and the crit to go with it.

Back

Magical Cat

A late unlock. Squishy burst caster that turns a bad wave around, then hides behind the front line again.

Limitless Paws, a white-furred cat in a black jacket wearing a glowing blue visor.

Limitless Paws

One-Winged Prowler Cat, a silver-haired swordcat with a single black wing and a long katana.

One-Winged Prowler Cat

Punk Cat, a mohawked cat in studded leather holding an electric guitar.

Punk Cat

Character illustrations of four cat heroes: a samurai, a blue-robed mage, a hooded rogue and a herbalist.
Class concepts. In-game sprites are pixel art; these guide the look.

Screenshots

Open it up

Click the anchor and the strip unfolds into the full game: a hero sheet, the stash, synthesis, a rune tree and the map.

A tour of the interface: the stash, world map and synthesis box opening in turn, the formation tab, and a cat cycling through its skins.
Panels open, the formation lays out the party, a cat changes its coat, and the fight keeps running underneath.

Captured from a development build. Placeholder art and numbers are still being tuned.

Put a party of cats on your taskbar

Nekosekai is coming to Steam for PC. Wishlisting is the single most useful thing you can do for a small game. It's how Steam decides to show it to anyone else.

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