Summary
- Catly studio SuperAuthenti has uploaded a new trailer and gameplay to the game’s Steam page.
- The updates come in the light of people claiming the trailer looks like it might have been AI-generated.
- Catly’s description has also been overhauled so that it now features details about its gameplay.
Catly‘s reveal at The Game Awards got people talking for all the wrong reasons. It seems around 80 percent of those who saw the trailer glazed over, assuming it had been AI-generated, while the other 20 percent did some digging only to find evidence further suggesting AI might have been involved in the game’s creation. The studio behind it has since denied it used AI to create Catly or its trailer and has released a new trailer in an attempt to demonstrate that.
SuperAuthenti, the studio behind Catly, has uploaded the new trailer to the game’s Steam page. While the original trailer that faced AI accusations is still there, the new one, which features actual gameplay, is the one that starts playing when you land on the page. While the visuals still look pretty great, Catly’s new trailer makes it seem more like a game that actually exists, something many weren’t convinced of this time six days ago.
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Whereas the original Catly trailer showed cats in what felt a little bit like something from a bizarre dream sequence, the new trailer cuts to a cat customization screen where players can select and accessorize their felines. After that, the cats are shown in Catly’s futuristic setting before the trailer focuses on sweeping shots of some of the backdrops without the cats present. Again, similar to the original trailer, but with far fewer fake, AI-generated vibes.
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SuperAuthenti has added new screenshots to the Steam page too which, like the trailer, help assuage the feeling that Catly isn’t a game at all and just some sort of blockchain scam that paid for a Game Awards slot. Equally as important as the new trailer is the overhaul of the game’s description on Steam. The note that you could do everything in the game “all with and via cats” had me suspicious, but now that confusing descriptor is nowhere to be seen.
Instead, the Steam page now explains some of what you’ll be able to do with your virtual cats. An online open world will allow players and their cats to work and play together, you will be able to adopt cats you find out in that world, presumably as long as they haven’t already been adopted by someone else, and residents of the island – unsure if that’s one big shared island or players get one each Animal Crossing-style – will provide you challenges to complete.
There’s still the Apple Watch of it all, and the original trailer and suspicious images remain, but the new trailer and overhauled description do make Catly seem like it might really be a real game after all. If that’s the case, it’s a shame it didn’t go with the new trailer to begin with as those initial accusations will be hard to shake, especially with SuperAuthenti leaving that initial trailer out there.
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