Obviously the warrior names are picked from the list of words they have and thrown together, so I got my first silly name already, meet Blazeblaze of ThunderClan xD

I have just contacted Amazon to return my copy after playing for about 4-5 hours.

I was beyond excited for this game and had pre-ordered it far in advance but I am incredibly dissapointed.

The best part visually when it comes to the graphics is the chracter creator and the title screen, the rest of the game is a literal joke. The cheap looking icons all over the map, the textures, the lighting, it is a nightmare for me as I am a very visual person and aesthetics are very important for the atmosphere of a game for me.

The NPCs are hollow randomly generated and funky colored cats that you mostly cant even talk to, the quests are incredibly easy and are basically just fetch quests.

The progression is way to fast I was deputy after just a little over 2 hours of playing.

The map is not only a nightmare to look at but also a nightmare to navigate.

I am happy for everybody who is enjoying this game, but 40 bucks for a game of this unfinished quality feels like a joke when games like Ultimate Edition or Lake territiories exist for basically free.

My biggest disappointment is that the game just doesn't seem to live up to the potential of its source material. Warrior Cats has such a rich world, interesting characters, and so many possibilities for gameplay, exploration, and storytelling. With the right amount of care and effort, this could have been something really special for fans. Instead, the experience feels disappointing, especially considering the expectations that come with an official game based on such a beloved series.

The recent negative reviews have also made me feel less confident about keeping it. When so many players are expressing disappointment with the game, it's difficult to ignore those concerns, especially when you're spending your own money on it. I don't expect every game to be perfect, and I understand that smaller projects can have limitations, but I do expect a finished product that feels worth the price.

What frustrates me most is that I genuinely wanted to support this game. I would have loved to have a Warrior Cats game that I could come back to, explore for hours, and recommend to other fans. It's disappointing to feel like the final product doesn't quite deliver on what the concept could have been.

I really hope the developers listen to the feedback, address the issues players have been bringing up, and consider making meaningful improvements. I would love to see this franchise get the game it deserves someday. But as things stand right now, I just can't justify keeping this one.

It's a shame, because I wanted to love it. Unfortunately, being a fan of the franchise isn't enough to make me overlook the problems or feel satisfied with my purchase. For now, I'll be returning it and hoping that future Warrior Cats games do the series justice.

Tabbed out of the game to go complain to someone that I can’t name myself Ashfur when the game decided it was just going to make me a warrior anyway.

The other quests still work just fine and the game lets me continue like normal as if nothing happened. Out of curiosity I went back to the main menu to see what would happen and surprisingly it puts me back into the warrior ceremony to choose my suffix… which I can then alt tab out of again and it does the same thing. Funny enough as soon as the cutscene ends it puts me right back to where I last saved so I can continue from where I left off.

When I was a young whippersnapper, warrior cats was the most important thing in my entire life for years.

There was no official merch, there was nothing about it online, nobody in real life knew what it was. WCUE was a blocky, janky game where the territory borders were brightly coloured blocky lines on the ground, and the cat's heads were cylinders. The most we had was MAPs, AMVs and PMVs. The series only existed up to Omen of the Stars.

If you had told young me, that today we have an expansive Warrior Cats game, an official animated series being released via Disney, merchandise coming out of our earholes, I would have had a seizure.

Instead all I see is criticism. "Bit disappointed in XYZ, don't like the look of this merchandise, can't believe Disney is doing this it's going to be watered down" etc etc

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but oh my Starclan, you do not realise the absolute gifts bestowed upon us today. It comes across spoiled, picking holes in everything the Erins have finally given us after literal decades of tumbleweed.

I am so grateful that, after over a decade being a die-hard warrior cat fan, I finally have tangible official things to enjoy. I do not give a flying hedgehog about the imperfections. WARRIOR CATS WAS NEVER PERFECT ANYWAY.

Thank you for coming to my clan meeting.

Spoiler alert for the new warrior cats game that just dropped, obviously, though honestly? The game barely has a story so there’s literally NOTHING to spoil

This is a LONG post. So I’m putting a TLDR right here: this game is an unfinished, buggy mess, and is not worth your money in the state it is in. Do NOT buy it, unless you want to spend money on an obviously unfinished game.

Also, please feel free to ask me any questions at all about the game. I feel like I have seen everything this game has to offer.

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Right, the long part; I played the riverclan story from start to finish, it did not take long. I then played the thunderclan story (almost) all the way through to compare the two campaigns.

First of all, I want to say I don’t like the character creator. I just wish that markings were more separated (paws, head, muzzle, etc) to be able to make our OCs more accurately

On a second play through the game starts almost exactly the same. The prophecy is different, but the dialogue outside of that is literally the exact same as the riverclan story.
They specifically point out that you are special, which I dislike. I would like to feel like I earned my destiny. We are literally just the prophecy cat.

Like the riverclan story, I am starting as an apprentice. I will keep track of how many quests it takes me to become a warrior

I’ve noticed that in the thunderclan story, you can generally talk to more of the NPCs. This is not the case in the riverclan story

Apprentice quests:
1, hunting mice
2, gathering cobwebs for nests
3, border marking + chasing out a shadowclan intruder, this was a two phase boss (I noticed that I received the same scar for this boss fight as the one in the riverclan story, also, there was a boss fight here in the other story too, but instead it was a badger and some kits had escaped)

As I start my next quest as an apprentice, I noticed that the dialogue for this quest is exactly the same as the riverclan quest, they tell you to prove yourself to be worthy of being a warrior and then your warrior ceremony IS the quest

I’m noticing that the quests are exactly the same, just slightly different sometimes (for example, quest 3 in the thunderclan and riverclan story are the same, the only difference between them is what animal the boss fight is against)

In riverclan, I had a few quests as a warrior, the deputy retired to the elders den and then our leader was murdered. Let’s see how the thunderclan story plays out, I have a hunch that it’s going to be similar.
Oh yeah. And you can’t swim. Not even if you’re a riverclan cat. Swimming does not exist in this game.

Again, a random apprentice has joined my party. I can only assume they’re meant to be my apprentice, but there was no ceremony

warrior quests:
1, border marking
2, fight rogue cat (these turn out to be shadowclan cats, but the quest called them rogues
3, border “patrol” (walk to this specific location and stand in the circle) also, talking to my clanmates as I come back to camp I find out through dialogue alone that the deputy was attacked so badly he has to retire, there was no cutscene for this. Every cat I talk to is hinting that I will become deputy.
4, reach level 11

I am now deputy.
Deputy quests:
1, go rescue your clanmate by fighting an enemy (by the way, the leader is already talking about retiring) also, the “threat” was a mouse, I think it was meant to be funny but since the NPCs don’t have any personality it wasn’t funny at all
2, find and chase off intruders
3, mark borders (got back from this quest and the leader was dead, just like in the riverclan story) it’s the same story but the circumstances are slightly different.

Leader quests:
1, reach level 15
2, travel to the moonpool (leader ceremony is identical to the riverclan one, medicine cat gives you the same dialogue as the other story)
3, go to the island (???) oh my god. They mean the riverclan island. I’m not even sure if I can explain to you how ridiculously far away that is
I found a shortcut path of stones that cuts straight to the island. I can’t use this shortcut because the jump pad won’t activate there. I tried it one more time in case i was doing something wrong. I wasn’t. Now I have to go all the way around through riverclan and that is so incredibly far it’s not even fun

I can only assume that was meant to be a gathering? But there was nobody else there

4, find the blazing star. Exactly the same quest as the other story word for word.

The item I needed didn’t spawn in. I am standing exactly where it’s supposed to be and it’s not there. I am soft locked. I’m not playing anymore.

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The game generally feels unfinished, like a beta version you would release to get feedback. Things I’ve noticed:

if you fight a cat that you need to fight to progress the story, that cat can be randomly generated. However, when you die, the original cat is replaced with a completely different one

You don’t seem to be able to choose who you can have as a party member, cats join and leave your party based on your current quest

Prey go out of their way to attack you, instead of running

Enemies always spawn in the same place and just stand there

NPCs such as clanmates are soulless husks of characters that are only there to give you quests and that’s it

You can’t skip the experience gained screen (and it’s annoyingly slow, especially if you gain a lot of xp)

Once you press the sneak attack button you don’t have to do anything. Even if the enemy notices you approaching you still get the bonus damage
Prey does the same amount of damage to you as every other enemy

I’m playing on a switch 2 and the game doesn’t feel like it’s running very well, the fps is low

It’s hard to tell where you can and can’t go. There are invisible walls everywhere

The combat is so slow and you can’t speed it up at all

A lot of the animations for attacks are the same

The same sound effects will be used right after another (your enemy will growl at you, and you will growl back and the audio clip is exactly the same)

Your allies fully heal after battle

There’s no way to tell if the enemy you’re attacking will be one enemy, two, or three enemies

There are many typos

I don’t understand why a lot of the “intruders” in the quests are prey? Perhaps the game is picking enemies at random? It feels underwhelming to patrol the border and the enemy I need to fight to complete the quest is a mouse or rabbit

There are no consequences for losing all your health. You get teleported back to the last fast travel point you used. Sometimes I die on purpose so I can tp across the map

You can go into any territory regardless of what clan you’re in. There’s no punishment for it. You won’t get caught.

There are only like 4 music tracks in the game and you will notice it.

If you read all this, do you have the game? If you’ve played it, do you agree with me or am I being too cynical?

she made Cloudtail and I made Brightheart! The designs are based on the graphic novels. I think they both turned out so good ^^

I was so excited for the warriors game, and now that I'm actually playing it, it feels a bit... Underwhelming. As a warning, I'm only a couple hours in. So some of these points may be proven wrong.

First of all, I like the expansive territories, I like exploring. That is a pretty cool part of the game. But now that I'm exploring, it feels like the exploration gameplay is so limited. Maybe it's user error, but it feels like half of my time playing is spent backtracking because my cat can't get up the ledge where the path I need is. I can't jump up on most stuff to get there because the jumping height is so tiny. I can't climb up either, because you can only climb trees or anything in very specific limited spots. Trying to get from WindClan territory to ThunderClan territory is a pain right now. Maybe it'll help once I've memorized the paths, but now that I'm just trying to explore, it feels limiting. I would've liked gameplay like Assassin's Creed where you can climb and scale anything.

The backtracking is also annoying because of the stamina limit. I don't even know why there is a stamina limit, because when an enemy spots you, they run way faster than you anyway. You could've just limited it to climbing, and let me run as much as I want 🥲

I'm also not a fan of the hunting mechanic. I like that it skips way too easy enemies so hunting doesn't take as long, but I don't like the whole "your clans food supply decreases every 90 seconds", which means when I'm just trying to explore, I'll always have the hunting stuff on the back of my mind.

Also, why can't we type in our name? Why are the names predetermined? I figured maybe it had sth to do with the voice acting or the prophecy at the beginning, but the names aren't voice acted.

And the other characters feel so... Bland. Barely any of them have any personality, aside from your parents, your mentor and your leader. Crowfeather doesn't feel like Crowfeather. When I was named apprentice, I was excited to go talk to my clanmates, but every single one of them was like "I have nothing to talk about. StarClan be with you". Not even congratulations or anything! And when they talk, they usually just tell you you'll be a great warrior. I'd have wished for a rival character or anything. And the fact that the exploration is not as enjoyable as I'd have liked, makes me feel the current lack of character/story much more.

TLDR; Don:t like the exploration, don't like the characters, it's underwhelming.

So, if you set your expectations to literal ground zero, it's a fun game. My kids are enthralled. Their expectations were: I hope we can make our own cat, run around, and see some familiar characters from the books they love. Bam, instant classic to them, ha.

The repetitive music apparently didn't bother them (yet). They've never played Expedition 33 or Lies of P to be able to compare and see what Unreal Engine is really capable of. They don't care that it's mostly fetch quests, they just want an excuse to do cat stuff. They love their dens.

It does run smoothly on PS5. I actually like the look of it, although I mostly attribute that to Unreal Engine doing most of the work there to make the world look nice.

Warrior fans deserved better. Maybe a developer with better credentials can try something with this IP one day. But! I am glad that this Warrior Cats game exists. It's not worth $30 unless you're desperate for a Warrior Cats game and can set your expectations to sub zero. Or if you have kids that are excited about it. Otherwise... wait for it on super sale, then enjoy being able to explore a little bit of the Warrior Cats world.

PS: I'm excited for next month when Zelda gets re-released, so I can show them a title actually deserving of "best game I've ever played." 😆

What happened with the game?

And yes I mean sickening. I genuinely feel ill with how irritated and disappointed the game has made me. I’ve only JUST finished the opening tutorial and I already had to take a break. The graphics I can excuse. The Warrior Cats game was never gonna be some kind of triple A visual masterpiece.

It’s the fact that EVERY character is an OC, and that nothing feels like it was made with any kind of genuine passion or love at all. It’s just some random AU set in the lake territories filled with made up characters. I picked ThunderClan, and the only legacy characters I could find were Cloudtail and Brightheart. I tried to talk to them, and what they had to “say” was what made me shut the game off.

They had nothing to say. They had the exact same stock “I have no mission for you” dialogue as every other cat in the camp. These are CANON LEGACY CHARACTERS, and they have ZERO flavor text. None of the cats do. This was when my passive disappointment turned into actual unhappiness and upset. The devs didn’t give a flying fuck about any of this. I’ve never had a game put me in an irl “You know what I’m just gonna go to bed” bad mood before.

This is all without mentioning that the game runs like ass on a NINTENDO SWITCH 2. I should not be stuttering along at 30>FPS on a game that looks like something for the iPhone 5. Also for some reason the thing you use to find objectives is “StarClan’s guidance” and not scent trails.

I payed full price for the digital Switch 2 version, with DLC. That’s how excited I was and how confident I was that even if the game was kinda bad, I’d still play through it and have fun. Now I’m angry at myself for ever thinking that. It’s hard to describe the sheer misery of how let down I am. I can’t even get a refund.

I saw the posts y’all were making and figured that it was classic fan overreaction. But nah, this was the worst gaming experience I’ve ever had. This is fucking unforgivable.

My roommate and I were gonna pop on Doctor Who to kinda cheer me up, but right when the episode started I shook my head and said “I’m sorry I just can’t right now I’m gonna go lie down.”

(read the books in this situation)

The things that I've heard are:

-Someone told me that thistleclaw was one of the best mates you could get😐.

-crowfeather had a good love life (sorry not sorry).

-Ivypool was in love with hawkfrost

-bumblestripe is ashfur born again

-ferncloud and dustpelt are a good couple (uncle and niece btw)

-Cloudtail was a perfect mate

I've only played about 3 hours in but it's just...not good. I'm so disappointed. The story is incredibly lacking, the pacing is horrible, there's no real building relationships with the other cats. I don't even have any desire to continue the story due to the lack of soul in the game, it's not engaging at all.

These LITERALLY just dropped and they look more hideous compared to the other releases 😭

The other week I was clowning Warriors about possible releases and was so sure of myself that these said releases would include airbrushing in some sort of way. But they clowned me back because wtf is this

I've seen a lot of disappointment about the game since it's release, and I would say a lot of it is warranted! I went into the game with low expectations and have been having the time of my life because of it.

I'm about 3 hours in a still an apprentice because i've been doing more exploring than I have been quests. I love the little cat I made, and I find the map (Riverclan at least) to be beautiful and fun to take my time wandering through. I like the battle system and find it very relaxing and fun to navigate. I find the generated NPCs to be really fun (though I do wish there was more interaction with them!)

I think my only advice for people going into the game would be to take it slow, have fun, come up with a personality for your cat and play them that way. At the end of the day, not everyone is going to enjoy the game, but it is what you make it :) have fun out there!

Yall are being a bit overly negative. I’ve been waiting on a warriors game for about 16 years and I’ve enjoyed the game. It’s not some life-altering, world-stopping game. It absolutely needs more features - more open world, romance options, friendship, and more.

But its really not the end of the world lol. It’s a fun, silly little game about battle cats.

Some minor spoilers!

I was super excited for this game, and tried to keep my expectations on the lower end given what I've heard about this studio. That being said.. I ended up getting a refund for the game. I'm open to buying it again in the future if they substantially change it, but for now I'm done with it.

What I liked:

-the map is huge and pretty true to the lore! There were navigation difficulties but I'll address that in the negatives section

-while it's not usually my preference I feel like the turn-based combat, while it can be improved on, has good bones. I like that you can learn different moves that have different stats and status effects to replace ones in your established move-set

-when you progress enough levels, low-level kills like mice and birds can just be insta-killed and no turn based combat is needed. I especially enjoyed this function!

-it was cool seeing some characters from the books, and I actually appreciated that the story setting is after the time that the books took place. It was cool seeing Tawnypelt as an elder

-the mechanic of getting scars after certain fights is really clever and one of my favorite game mechanics

What I disliked:
This list is unfortunately much longer.

-the controls are awful (PC), escape isn't used, no mouse controls, and you can't rebind keys

-the game progresses SO FAST. Within about 6 main quests I was already deputy. I spaced it out with side quests, but those tended to be pretty repetitive and similar, lots of fetch quests for herbs and hunting quests. Defense quests were laughable, a lot of time it was stuff like "protect our clan from this field mouse!"

- the hunting prey is boring! As I played a Shadowclan run, I was expecting to have to catch frogs and such, but there were only 4 prey animals: squirrels, rabbits, mice, and birds. I imagine the prey is probably the same across all clans. It definitely broke some immersion

-the NPCs feel hollow. There's not really any casual dialogue and they generally won't speak to you if they're not giving you a quest. I would love a lot more immersion in building relationships with clan members, wether it be as enemies, friends, or a mate

-some of the quests don't make a lot of sense, before you're to become deputy you're assigned a quest to rescue a clanmate, from... a small prey animal... it was just really ridiculous.

-combat is REALLY easy. I'm not the most skilled gamer but within 15 fights I only had to use a healing herb once, even then I probably could have survived without it. The boss fights were not really any harder than simple prey fights, just took longer bc of health regeneration. I never felt on the edge of my seat or in danger of losing. I should not have been able to easily defeat a warrior from another clan on my first outing as an apprentice within less than 2 minutes and not needing any healing items

-customization, oh man. I disliked the options for unrealistic colors (though that's a personal preference), and I really dislike how physical traits are tied to character ones (I don't remember what tied to what but for a made up example, if you want a fluffy tail you need to have a higher stealth skill at the cost of a lower strength skill).

-the map is tough to navigate, lots of trails and such that the map makes it appear you can clearly go through, but there are often obstacles in the way you can't go past that you don't see until you get there (what cat can't jump over a 3ft fence??)

-what's up with the object wait times for decorating the den? Why do I have to wait 47 REAL WORLD HOURS TO PUT A DAMN COW SKULL IN THERE

All in all, I feel like this game really missed the mark on what Warrior fans have proven to love the most via stories, animations, and fan-made games, and that is Roleplaying. People want a highly customizable game where they can pick one of multiple different roles to serve, and build up relationships to other members in specific ways, and I feel like this game doesn't really achieve any of that. It feels like a mobile game, hollow and without much care put into it. I hope the developers listen to people's feedback to make this game more immersive and playable, but right now it's just not that in my opinion.

So I am seeing a lot of negative posts and comments regarding the game and it's very disheartening. Don't get me wrong: everyone should be allowed to voice their opinion and everyone is entitled to their own opinions, thoughts, and feelings. But honestly, as someone who grew up reading the books and who is still keeping up with them? I am very happy with what we got.

Yes, there is so much more that could have been done or added but at least we have a game? At least they actually made an official one? I still remember when there was no media other than books for it. No merch. Nothing. So I am grateful that in 2026 here we are with an official game. I hope they will add more as time goes on and expand but as it is: I am very happy with what we got and feel grateful that we have something.

Also, if you are looking for another good warriors like, I suggest Cattails: Wildwood Story.

I hope some of you out there are enjoying the game like I am.

Why don’t the cats pee when they’re scent marking or at least rub their cheeks on something instead of sniffing the air‚ cowards says I

The game is absolutely a little underwhelming in the visual category, but it feels like a game I would have EATEN UP as a kid. Playing makes me feel like a kid again and I love it for that.

I could be disappointed, but imma have fun with it anyway! I've been waiting for an official game, and I'm choosing to enjoy it whether it's what I was expecting or not.

So I got the game the second it released lastnight since I preordered it. And here’s how it’s been so far.

For an RPG I think it has a good balance of bein easy to understand but difficult to master. I play RPGs like South Park: The Stick Of Truth but I find myself getting bored because I mastered the battling so quickly. But games like persona I struggle to get into the battle system. The battle system in this game is simple enough to understand but still has a difficulty factor for you to learn and improve your skills

The story’s are decent. I have a cat for every clan and while the story’s I’ve experienced most is the shadowclan story, the others have a very clearly different story and the choices you make decide a lot of stuff such as the scars your cat has and the bond with other clan mates.

The gameplay is actually really fun! I like running around in the very open world and there’s never nothing to do, you always have missions and side missions that can be quite fun. It’s been fun to try and get used to the battle system and watchin my cat grow stronger is actually really fun.

You get to have tons of save files with different cats, meaning you can make a lot of different cats and give them different personalities and paths along their clan. Theres 9 so you can make 2 cats for each clan and 1 little extra. Theres also online battling which is really cool

A lot of the systems are quite indepth. You have to manage the fresh kill pile and if it gets to low you start to experience drawbacks during traversal and battle. The bonding system is quite in-depth too, all decided by your dialogue answers which can be tailored or completely opposite to what the cat your speaking to wants.

The only problems I have:

1: The open world is slightly janky but I believe that’s the nature of a brand new game. Couple times that the invisible wall hit boxes confused me, but that’s most likely somethin that will be fixed soon to make traversal easier

2: Theres clearly a couple corners cut. There is predefined names for your apprentice prefix and your warrior suffix, and there is voice actin for the narrator. You’d think they’d mabye have voice lines atleast for the apprentice names since it’s all predefined but no, it’s like most other games with voice actin where you can name your character, there’s simply no dialogue of your name. There is also a bit of a sizing thing but that could be cuz I made my main played cat incredibly small.

OVERALL RATING!:

I’d give it a 8/10 if you enjoy warrior cats and rpgs your goin to enjoy this game. I’ve had a lot of fun with it so far, usually I can’t play games for more than an hour these days but I got over 3 hours in and only stopped because it was almost 4 AM. I would recommend the game for fans of warrior cats, ASLONG as you are also a fan of RPGs. You will not enjoy the game if you don’t enjoy RPGs.

Anyway here are my babies

What's crazier is that if you look at the reviews, someone got the game for free through a steam key. Yk its bad when someone gets it for free, and its just like- yeah no. Don't spend your money on this.

Also the fact that you can't swim in Riverclan

The clan whose whole lives is water-based.

You. Can't. Swim.

At least give us the player a heads up about that. Maybe a small mini note

I knew medicine cat wasn't going to be playable cause of the achievements. Back in September, steam had a data leak and a ton of unreleased game achievements got leaked. This game was one of them. I was scrolling through and immediately noticed that the medicine cat achievement wasn't up there.

But my main question I've had since seeing the previews is; why was the studio given such a small budget and little time? Warriors is probably a multi-million IP, probably in the high hundreds. And that's just me taking a guess. Im not blaming the studio at all, and we've dreamed for something like this since we were very little.

Maybe we could've had a warriors game with an open world similar to black myth wukong in terms of exploitation but scaled down by a lot depending on what path you choose. I can see turn based combat working depending on certain fights and others could be free form punishing fights, where if you rush in without thinking theres consequences. Hunting could be a mini game like mechanic where you sneak and have to avoid objects and strike at the right time. Maybe we could even partake in border fights depending on the situation and escalation of it. That's just me though.

Another thing that caught me off guard was the name and map that eas showed. We got the lake map, but the title is forest?? Which has a lot of us wondering if they're going to make the forest as DLC, but at this rate I'm kinda skeptical about it.

Thoughts and opinions? Im not so hopeful of anyone making mods for this game anytime soon

I literally can't believe we have the Fresh Kill pile! I cried!! I was just crying! I just am in SHOCK THAT WE FINALLY HAVE A OFFICIAL WARRIOR CATS GAME!! LIKE I'M SO HAPPY! I love Warrior Cats since I was 9, and I'm now 29 yrs old, and we finally have a beautiful game!! The MAP IS HUGE. These Warrior Cats books have been my friends during these years, reading them at school during lunch, reading them after school, reading them while in the car, watching the Warrior Cats MAPS and PMVs and AMVs on youtube, I am so hapoy and thankful I get to see this!! My inner child and the little girl in me is crying, my heart is truly touched. Thank you DEVs for hearing us, hearing me. 🥺 it used to be a rumor back then, but now we have a game! Over 20 yrs later

I love it so much! ❤️🧡💛💚💙