# Banana cat game: the hide-and-seek, clicker and escape games, explained Source: https://roam.lol/banana-cat-game/. Checked November 5, 2026. Banana cat games come in a few kinds: Banana Cat: Hide and Seek on phones, a free Banana Cat clicker on Steam, and small web puzzles like Hiding Banana Cat and Banana Cat Escape. All of them riff on Sad Banana Cat, the crying cat in a banana suit that took off on TikTok in March 2023. ## Banana cat games you can play now None of these are official. The meme has no owner that makes games, so every banana cat game is a fan or indie take. - **Banana Cat: Hide and Seek (phones)**: By Vietnam's CAT Studio, called Cat Escape: Hide and Seek on Google Play since July 2023. Sneak the cat to its favorite food without being spotted by a Shiba dog. Free with in-app purchases. - **Banana Cat (Steam)**: A free clicker published by Sciorda Inc., out since July 7, 2024. You click a "catnana", and idling earns catnana items you can trade on the Steam Market. - **Banana Cat Escape (Agame)**: A 2023 maze puzzle by Harbi Games. Push boxes onto switches and slip past patrolling enemies to reach the exit. - **Hiding Banana Cat (GirlsGoGames)**: A small web puzzle game built around keeping the banana cat out of sight. - **itch.io fan games**: Small fan projects share the name, such as a Banana Cat arcade game where you collect bananas to stay alive. ## Where the sad banana cat came from The first banana-suit cats came from a March 2021 Facebook compilation by Sin Achilles, with no tears at all. The tears arrived on March 17, 2023, in a TikTok from the Happy Happy Happy Cat account @happyhappiihappy where the cat ends up in a hospital. Within weeks fans posted drawings and a 3D model. Know Your Meme lists Indonesia as the region. It borrows from an older meme, Crying Cat, a photo edit of a cat with huge watery eyes that was everywhere by 2018. The banana suit adds the joke: a costume made for fun, worn by someone having the worst day. That is also why it suits games: the player's job is obvious, cheer him up or get him home. ## Three banana cat game ideas Keep it short and soft: one sad moment, one clear way to fix it, and a happy ending you can replay. On Roam, Whisker Bay is a cat mischief sandbox in a harbor. - **Cheer-Up Errands**: A weepy kitten in a banana costume walks a rainy town. Find five small fixes: a lost sock, a new ice cream, a friend at the window. Each one makes the rain lighter. - **Tear Flood**: His tears fill the room. Climb the shelves and curtains before the water reaches you, and grab tissues to slow it down. - **Peel Slide**: The costume is slippery. Slide downhill, grab fish, and steer around puddles that start the crying again. ## Play it on Roam - [Whisker Bay](https://roam.gg/play/whisker-bay/): One ginger cat. Four flowerpots. Ten minutes. - [Pill Paws](https://roam.gg/play/pill-paws/): Grab the pills. Dodge the house. ## Make your own banana cat adventure with Roam Describe the sad little story and how it ends happy, and Roam turns it into a game you can play and send to friends. Roam is rated 13+ on the App Store. Try: "cozy rain adventure, a weepy kitten in a banana costume, find 5 things that cheer him up around a rainy town, the rain gets lighter with each one, no game over" [Get Roam on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6745489251?pt=126889634&mt=8&ct=rlol-banana-cat-game) ## Questions people ask **Is there a banana cat game?** Yes, several fan-made ones: Banana Cat: Hide and Seek on phones, a free Banana Cat clicker on Steam, and web puzzles like Banana Cat Escape. **Who made the banana cat hide and seek game?** CAT Studio, a Vietnamese developer. It is called Cat Escape: Hide and Seek on Google Play and Banana Cat: Hide and Seek on the App Store. **What is the banana cat meme?** A crying cat in a banana costume, used in short clips about small sad moments, usually with sad music. **When did banana cat start?** Cats in banana suits appeared on Facebook in March 2021. The crying version started with a TikTok on March 17, 2023. ## Sources - Sad Banana Cat: March 2021 Facebook compilation by Sin Achilles; first sad version March 17, 2023 by @happyhappiihappy; 3D model April 2023; region Indonesia: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sad-banana-cat - Crying Cat, an edit of a cat with watery eyes, widespread by 2018: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/crying-cat - Banana Cat: Hide and Seek on the App Store, free with in-app purchases, Shiba dog: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6462018010 - Cat Escape: Hide and Seek on Google Play by CAT Studio, released July 2023: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.banana.cat.hidenseek - Banana Cat on Steam, free clicker published by Sciorda Inc., released July 7, 2024, tradeable items: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3058700 - Banana Cat Escape on Agame: Harbi Games, maze puzzle with boxes, switches and enemies: https://www.agame.com/game/banana-cat-escape - Hiding Banana Cat on GirlsGoGames: https://www.girlsgogames.com/game/hiding-banana-cat - Banana Cat fan arcade game on itch.io: https://maker-school.itch.io/banana-cat ## About Roam Roam ("Roam - Make Games" on the App Store) is an iPhone app where you play games and make your own by describing them or from a photo. It is free to download and play, and making games works without a subscription; optional Spark and Reality plans and credit packs add more creation. Android: pre-register on Google Play. https://roam.gg