what happend to other three cats that were with orange cat

[Dominik]

i dont see any in ending

[Illusion of Progress]

Might want to spoiler that/omit spoiler stuff from the title.

Anyway...

The other cats are never shown beyond the point the three of them watch you fall into the place, so it's clearly up to interpretation what happens beyond that point, let alone beyond the ending. What if another cat didn't make it out? We don't know. Maybe the cat you play as meets up with them shortly after the ending, maybe years after the ending, maybe all of them or one or two of them, or maybe it doesn't. Absolutely nothing is concrete for the cat you play as beyond the ending scene and nothing for the other three cats beyond the point you last see them when you fall into the city.

There's other things we don't know which would help answer this.

For one, how much time does the cat you play as spend within the city? If it was down for there for, say, just some hours like less than a day, or even maybe a couple/few days, maybe the other cats didn't make it far. Did the cat you play as wake up immediately after the fall? All we have as vague hints are that the cat might drink (player pending) but we never see it canonically eat. So we can maybe assume it wasn't more than a time span measured in weeks at most (presuming these cats aren't evolved in a way to not to need to eat as often as ones today). But we don't know how long it's been since it ate at the start of the game to begin with either, so...

Also, we don't know the current trajectory of the group of cats at the beginning. Is that opening scene a short term shelter spot of sorts? Or was it just where they spent one night during a storm while passing through? The answer to that would change the likelihood of whether or not the cat might meet back up with them, but we don't even know this.

We do have one small clue, though, and that this city is on an island per the screens near the end outside the control room. How big this island is though, we don't know (we might be able to gleam an estimate based on size relative to the curvature). So there's definitely a chance the cat would meet back up with them eventually, but also a chance it might not.

Maybe DLC or a sequel will answer this. Given how popular this topic is, i imagine this would have a good chance of being touched upon if that happens. Unless/until that happens though, it's definitely a "up to interpretation" thing, and I personally liked this ending better than it walking out and suddenly either just finding the other three cats or hearing a meow. I can suspend disbelief for games, but that would have felt forced for its own sake to me.

[fatfluffycat]

The ending is so unsatisfying and abrupt, after surviving the city and achieving your goal to reach the surface you get..a 15 second cut scene? You don't even get to experience it.

And man, the cats, that was my whole reason to complete the game, I wanted to see them together again after seeing the fall scene. There was this voice in the back of my head "but what if it doesn't show them reuniting?" I was like nah, how could that NOT happen. And turns out it was right.

I feel like it was trying to be philosophical with the ending and B12's death, but honesty screw that, real life is depressing enough. Plus I have no desire to ever replay it again knowing this is how it ends.

[Nousos]

Life doesn't end there though. All humans are dead to a plague, and the machines had minds and lives of their own, they were just trapped eternally until their energy would've run out. Our cat protagonist and their new friend B12 freed them to inhabit the earth as they see fit, and honestly, the memory of a brave and selfless little orange cat is probably imprinted hard on their society forever, since there are not generations as we know them and one machine could live without end.

As for how much time has passed in game (and thus how far away the cat's family/friends are) yes you can probably take it literal from average playtime. There is no food for a carnivore in the city, any organic matter besides plants that was left after the humans perished would have rotted away in the centuries or been consumed by the zurk. There is nothing to fill that poor kitty belly, so they had to get out of the city within a day or so before they get weak and starve.

I could honestly see the machines building a society that reveres cats and either seeks to communicate with them as B12 did (assuming that they are ALL intelligent in this far flung future, as the protagonist would imply) or just gives them an honored place as protected life able to come and go as they please.

Either way, to show the other cats waiting would feel forced, and this is probably the best of a few methods they likely tried. After all that chaos, our hero finally gets to relax and go back to stretching out in the sun after a nice meal.

[Illusion of Progress]

Originally posted by Nousos:

Either way, to show the other cats waiting would feel forced...

Glad to see someone else feels this way, with all the discontent being said about the ending. I was starting to think I was the only one who felt that way.

The ending ISN'T confirming they DON'T reunite anyway. It's literally up to interpretation, meaning IF you want them to, then they DO reunite. Until further content comes to potentially clarify it one way or another, neither is canonically wrong (or right).

I could understand wishing for the happy ending to be confirmed, but I don't see how it ruined it so bad they don't want to play it again solely because of that. The game focuses on the journey of this unexpected detour.

And yeah, if a short time passed in the city as you said, which is likely, there's a realistic chance it could eventually (probably not very long after) meet up with them anyway. It didn't have to be shown (or heard with a meow) that they were unrealistically waiting right near the exit. That would have felt way too forced for its own sake.

[Angel]

That was interesting to read, thank you @Illusion of Progress @Nousos

Yes I also think it's up to interpretation. I like to think that they reunited at some point later.

[Nerd.Gamer.Dave]

They are directly below you. The walkway you exit from is one of the walkways you see directly above you at the start of the game.

The kitties are easily re-united my friend. Meow on

[tarzanello the butt doctor]

Originally posted by NerdgamerDave:

They are directly below you. The walkway you exit from is one of the walkways you see directly above you at the start of the game.

The kitties are easily re-united my friend. Meow on

Isn't Control Room a bit on the opposite side of Slums, where the cat starts it journey? I assumed that the infected area you can see from the top is close to the Slums and it is clearly on the opposite side. The cat had to enter the city at the wall, then travelled towards the middle and the infected area, then up to Midtown and then through subway.

[Cactus-Cat]

If I remember it right then the city has a diameter of 450m. That would be 1400m to walk around the entire city.
Cats travel way larger distances than that and our protagonist most likely already knows where she has to go to find her group.

[Shaundi Frequencies]

Originally posted by fatfluffycat:

And man, the cats, that was my whole reason to complete the game, I wanted to see them together again after seeing the fall scene. There was this voice in the back of my head "but what if it doesn't show them reuniting?" I was like nah, how could that NOT happen. And turns out it was right.

SAME HERE ! i WANT TO SEE THEM TOGHETER!!!!