The Battle Cats is gearing up to celebrate the Lunar New Year in style, with a host of special stages and events set to run from January 17th at 11am until February 14th at 10:59am.
We’ll tell you all about it in a sec. First, let’s get everybody up to speed with a refresher on PONOS Corporation’s gloriously silly casual tower defense game.
The Battle Cats was originally released in Japan, where it went by the name Nyanko Daisensou. The game was such a hit that it ended up getting a global release in 2014, and the rest is history.
Gameplay-wise, The Battle Cats is a gacha game that sees you recruiting a menagerie of 2D cats and sending them into battle against an equally bizarre collection of monsters, robots, and animals.
Well over 65 million players have downloaded The Battle Cats, and almost 450,000 have reviewed it on Google Play and the App Store. Even more impressively, the average rating across both platforms is a stellar 4.5.
It’s well worth playing, in other words, and this would be a good time to give it a whirl. The Battle Cats Lunar New Year event is a great way to build up a war chest of Cat Food, the game’s main currency, and your means of buying items and unlocking new cat heroes.
The easiest way to claim Cat Food during the event is simply to show up. Every day you’ll get a stamp and some Cat Food as a login bonus.
You’ll also get a free spin on the Wildcats Slots, letting you win a guaranteed 777 Cat Food, and you can complete a stage of the limited-time Lunar New Year map for another 20 Cat Food per day.
There’s also a contest on the The Battle Cats Facebook page, giving you yet another bite of that juicy Cat Food cherry.
And your first 11-Capsule Draw at the Rare Cat Capsule Machine is half-price, putting you on the fast track for the most powerful cat heroes in the game.
You can download The Battle Cats for free on Android and iOS.