Purrfect Apawcalypse

Purrfect Apawcalypse is a 2D survival horror game developed by 90% Studios and published by Nine Tails Interactive. The game originally was released as a itch.io game originally developed by the engine Ren'Py, with Denise Truong acting as the lead programmer, artist, Andy Schneider acting as the designer, and Lyon Beckers acting as the composer, and was released on April 2019. It was released Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in October 29, 2027, Nintendo Switch and PS5 on February 3, 2028, and iOS on December 15, 2028.

Gameplay
Purrfect Apawcalypse is a narrative adventure survival horror puzzle game where the player controls Olive, a student of Hachiko High School who, after seeing cat ghosts rampaging around the school, she hides in a school closet and falls asleep in there, only to find that everyone is dead, and that the school had changed from a regular high school to a corridor of hallways and monsters. It has several weapons that you can upgrade with some platforming elements. The game takes elements of classic horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil, and has the combat of Castlevania in it.

Setting
Purrfect Apawcalypse takes place in the fictional town of Canine Falls. It's a city

Characters
The main character of the game, whom the player controls, is Olive Higgins (Denise Truong). She's a shy mutt who always have several mood swings, which makes her a weird kid in some way. Her mom is always pressuring her to make friends, but she always complains about it.

When the apocalypse starts, she is acompanied by four other dogs who helps her. Brownie Pembroke (Kristy Almonia) the snack-loving and stubborn corgi, Sparky Fritz (Andy Schneider) the sporty but insecure husky, Lucky Moore (Connor Braun) the nerdy and intelligent star mountain dog, and Patches Ito (Rory Morris) the dalmatian bookworm, with Patches betraying them near the end of the game.

The 5 then encounter Coco Grimalkin (Victoria Mintenko), who, was the one that started the apocalypse in order to find the one that killed her brother Angel (Zach Hoffman). They also encounter two ghost killers, Nyx (PJ Heywood), and Diablo (Matthew Curtis).

Development
Between 2019 and 2020, the development team released a lot of games for itch.io. These being the cyberpunk game Co-Pilot, the battle royale game Panel Royale, and the game that would be created into an expansive series, Purrfect Apawcalypse. However, the games caught the attention of three people that would make it into a full game. Those people being Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, Butterfly Soup developer Brianna Lei, and artist Ari Gibson. The three of them actually liked the idea of a "apocalyptic dog dating dog your own dogventure fiction game", but they wanted a few changes to the game. One of them being the game being turned into a 2D survival horror game, and the other having a combat system similar to Castlevania. They agreed with the ideas, and on May 1, 2021, they released a Kickstarter campaign to help support the game. They ended up getting US$314,598 dollars from it. Prior to the campaign, they hired 6 people to work on the project. Those being Bastion and Pyre programmer duo Gavin Simon and Andrew Wang to help program on the project with Andy, Goodbye Volcano High director and designer Kyle McKernan to direct it with Mikami, Doku Doki Literature Club developer Dan Salvato to write the story with Denise, Helltaker developer Łukasz Piskorz to help with the art for the game, and game composer and designer Ben Esposito to help compose the music with Lyon.

On July 3, 2025, it was announced that Purrfect Apawcalypse would be released on itch.io as a timed exclusive for the game, with the game going to be released on both Steam and the Epic Games Store. That same month, independent film and TV production company Sunset Entertainment announced that it would begin publishing games as Sunset Interactive, with the game being one of their first titles. According to a Polygon interview with Jacob Mifune, the founder of both Sunset Entertainment and Sunset Interactive, he loved Denise and Andy's several projects, those being Blobz and the short lived Banimation series, even collaborating with them on several occasions.