How to Play Hide the Cat

The full round loop in the developer's own words: hide your cat before the landlord inspects, keep quiet, explore new rooms for better spots - plus revive and shrink-ray context, beginner mistakes, and honest Unknowns.

Hide the Cat is a round-based stealth party game: you kept a stray cat, and your landlord is coming to inspect the house. This walkthrough uses the game's official description (checked 2026-09-21) — we label anything the developer has not published as Unknown instead of inventing it.

The round, step by step (official wording)

A stray cat shows up at your door — you decide to keep it.
Find the perfect hiding spot before your landlord arrives to inspect the house.
Grab the cat and hide it somewhere sneaky.
Get ready before the landlord arrives.
Keep quiet and don't let them find your cat.

Official promotional art: the orange-haired player hides the white cat in a kitchen cabinet while the landlord rants — Official promotional art (promo render, not gameplay): the kitchen hiding scene from the game's store page. Roblox, checked 2026-09-21.

The five steps above are the game's own description, nearly verbatim. Between rounds, explore new rooms to discover better hiding spots — the official description calls this out directly. Each successful hide adds to your cumulative cats-hidden count, which the 5–25 Cats badge ladder tracks. What each hide earns in coins is not publicly documented — Unknown.

The landlord and staying quiet

The landlord is the inspector. In the official art he is a pink-faced character in a dark navy suit and red tie carrying a blue checklist book, actively searching rooms — leaning and looking into furniture.

The official counter-play is exactly two rules: hide the cat well and keep quiet. How detection actually works — the round timer, line of sight, noise rules — is not publicly documented anywhere (checked 2026-09-21). Unknown: we don't invent numbers.

Items that change the game

Revive — the Starter Pack grants “1 revive”, so a revive mechanic exists; when and how it triggers is not publicly documented (Unknown).
Permanent Shrink Ray — official wording: “Shrink your cat to make them easier to hide!” A smaller cat fits sneakier places; the exact effect size is unknown.
Coins — earned “from hiding cats” (official wording); the Starter Pack grants 750. Full context in game passes.

Beginner mistakes to avoid

Panic-placing the cat in the first obvious spot instead of picking during your approach.
Ignoring room exploration — the game explicitly rewards exploring for better spots.
Forgetting the quiet rule: hiding well but moving noisily defeats the point.
Spending Robux before reading what each pass actually does (pass records).

Explicit Unknowns

Round timer length — not published anywhere (checked 2026-09-21)
Exact catch/detection rules — not published anywhere
Coin payout amounts and sinks — not published anywhere
Official hiding-spot/room names — none exist publicly yet
Developer products beyond the 4 game passes — API requires auth