A palace cat with a blue collar, a stray cat with a fish in its mouth, and a tiled roof above a medieval town. The Missing Tail has no release date and no price. Its trailer, posted on September 4, 2026 on a YouTube channel with 661 subscribers, has still topped 189,000 views. The game is played by two, and it promises that one copy will be enough.
A palace cat, a stray cat, a split screen
The Steam page sums up the story in one line: a royal cat led a peaceful, comfortable life until disaster turned it upside down. It then crosses paths with a stray cat, and the two must find their way home together. The game is played in third person, split screen, across a castle courtyard and a medieval town.
Each cat plays differently. Darryl Linington, at Notebookcheck, pointed this out as early as September 2: the stray cat brings agility in movement, the royal cat brings finesse in puzzles. Expect heavy objects to push together, multi-lock mechanisms, dangers to sneak past quietly, and rooftops to bounce across.
One copy for two, across all three platforms
The Missing Tail’s official site spells out the promise in plain terms. Asked whether each player needs to buy the game, the answer is one line: « No. One copy is enough for both players on Steam, PlayStation, and Xbox. » On PC, the Steam page lists online co-op, split screen, and Remote Play Together, the feature that lets you invite a friend remotely without them owning the game.
It’s the model It Takes Two made popular with its Friend’s Pass, and Notebookcheck draws the comparison. For a game built for couples, siblings, and parents with a kid, that argument carries more weight than any feature list. It cuts the price in half before anyone even knows what that price is.
189,585 views for a channel of 661 subscribers
Several outlets called the game viral without giving a single number. We went and counted them on September 19, 2026. The official trailer for The Missing Tail, live since September 4 on the game’s own channel, shows 189,585 views and 4,429 likes. The channel has 661 subscribers. That’s 287 views per subscriber, in fifteen days.
The contrast tells the story. The same video, reposted on September 9 by Indie Games Hub and its 219,000 subscribers, tops out at 9,697 views. The audience came looking for the source, not a repost. There’s also something the game hasn’t managed: it’s absent from GameGrin’s ranking of the twenty games that gained the most Steam followers between September 7 and 13, a chart topped by WARDOGS. The momentum is real, but still modest by Steam’s standards.
Estoty, the mobile studio from Riga behind The Missing Tail
To PC players, the studio’s name won’t mean much. To mobile players, it will mean plenty. Estoty was founded in 2012 in Riga, Latvia, by Guntis Pontags and Vasilijs Siņicins, with a second office in Vilnius since 2014. Its specialty: hyper-casual mobile games, the kind you open for two minutes at a time. According to its Wikipedia page, its games had racked up more than 1.5 billion downloads by 2020, and Johnny Trigger was the most downloaded game in the world that January.
The move toward PC began with My Little Universe, more than 50 million mobile downloads, later ported to Steam and consoles. In a case study published by SayGames in October 2025, Davis Toliasvili, the head of Estoty Riga, gives the simplest reason: « Almost everyone on the team dreamed of seeing their name in Steam credits one day. » The same piece notes that close to half of Steam wishlists converted into purchases.
Next comes The Missing Tail: a game built from the ground up for PC and consoles, with no mobile version announced. A studio that knows how to make instantly readable gameplay is now betting on a theme that has already carried Mewgenics and its 89 on OpenCritic this year.
What we still don’t know, and how to sign up for the test
The Missing Tail has no date, no price, and no announced length. The official site says it plainly: « There is no release date yet. » What’s confirmed comes down to four points. French is supported for the interface, voice, and subtitles, among eleven languages. The minimum spec calls for a GTX 960 or an RX 570, 8GB of memory, and 10GB of disk space. The studio states it has used no AI-generated content. And a « Request Playtest » form is open on the official site, in exchange for an email address.
To keep track of the game, adding it to a Steam wishlist remains the useful move: that number is what will decide its visibility on release day.
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