Neko Atsume and the confessions of a self-described 'crazy cat lady'

Neko Atsume is a strange game to describe. It's a strange game to play. And it's the game that, more than any other, Polygon reporter Allegra Frank thought about when she looked back on 2015. Today on Polygon Minimap: Worldmap Edition, we focus on a weird game. Or at least that's what we thought we were going to do. We got a lot more.

It's funny how these things work sometimes. You start talking about Neko Atsume, and before you know it, you're discovering important truths about video games — about why we play them, about when we play the, about why even those that might turn a recent college graduate into a self-described "crazy cat lady" wind up staying with us months later.

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