How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale

How Buddy’s parents met - a jigsaw puzzle tale

Released Feb 2020

All you need is love and a cat. Discover a romance through the eyes of the cat Buddy in this minimalist jigsaw puzzle game, told in 6 scenes illustrated by @Katia.Numakura with her lovely art style.

89% positive · 245 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation

How Buddy's parents met is a compact jigsaw puzzle game that launched on February 14, 2020, telling a six-scene love story through the eyes of a cat named Buddy. The game shipped as a self-contained narrative experience. On November 11, 2023, the developer released a free update adding one new scene to celebrate the game earning Steam Trading Cards — nearly four years after launch. The store description explicitly references this update as the culmination of the story ("What happened 4 years later?"), and no further content has been announced or released for this specific game since. The developer, Mens Sana Interactive, has been active since — but their post-2023 news posts are entirely focused on a separate product line called Meow Moments: Celebrating Together, a free-to-play hidden-object game that has received a sustained stream of paid DLC expansions (Valentine's Day, Olympicats, Comic Cat Con, Music Festival, The Old Kingdom, The New Frontier) through January 2026. None of these posts announce or hint at additional content for How Buddy's parents met. The developer's attention has clearly shifted to that franchise. How Buddy's parents met appears to be a complete, finished product. Its story has a natural conclusion, no DLC is listed or announced, and the November 2023 update was framed as a retrospective celebration rather than the start of a new content cycle.
Evidence
Developer released a free update adding one new scene to celebrate Steam Trading Cards, marking nearly 4 years since launch. Framed as a retrospective milestone for the game's story. No further content announced.
news post · Nov 11, 2023 source content shipped
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Store description references the November 2023 update as an additional scene celebrating Steam Trading Cards, asking 'What happened 4 years later?' — indicating this was the concluding story beat for the game.
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Details

Publisher
Mens Sana Interactive
Achievements
31
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Cats are amazing friends and witness so many special moments in its parents’ lives. They are quiet but watch everything. Secretly support the pursuit of love and happiness. In this jigsaw puzzle game, find six of these moments with Buddy the cat.

  • Get involved with this love story, with moments of unlikely coincidence, uncertainty and closeness.
  • Set up the jigsaw puzzle scenes at five different levels of difficulty.
  • Beautiful illustrations created especially for the game by artist @Katia.Numakura .
  • Relax with an immersive and exclusive soundtrack.
  • Features include zooming the scene, highlighting border pieces, highlighting pieces from a specific quadrant, shuffling the remaining pieces, previewing the scene, dragging the board.
  • Complete the puzzle and unlock the image for download. Share it to express your love ❤! Use it as a desktop background to inspire your day 🌞!
  • Play it if you love cats 🐱, love jigsaw puzzles 🧩 or just love ❤!

UPDATE: New additional scene to celebrate Steam Trading Cards. What happened 4 years later?
Last evaluated Jun 25, 2026
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