Hot Barrel Cats — Free arcade browser game

About Hot Barrel Cats

Only the cats standing on the wall can shoot — and shooting makes them overheat.

A cat that fires long enough jams, goes silent, and needs time to cool. So you are always deciding who holds the wall: drag a hot cat down to the spawn zone to cool, send a fresh one up, and drop two matching cats together to merge them into a stronger tier.

Merging resets the heat, which makes it a rescue as well as an upgrade. The Mildews — a damp fungus horde — walk the road toward your gate, and heat is what dries them out: a cat firing above 80 % scorches spore-carriers before they can splash heat back at your wall.

16 hand-tuned levels, five kinds of Mildew and three bosses, each of which attacks your heat rather than your health: one bursts and heats every pad at once, one shuts a shield and makes you waste fire, one keeps summoning while you rotate. Fifteen tiers of cat to merge toward, four perks to buy, a café shelf to fill, and a new daily challenge every day.

Hold the gate. Watch the barrels.

How to play Hot Barrel Cats

Drag a cat onto a matching cat to merge them into the next tier. The merged cat starts completely cool. Drag a hot cat down to the spawn zone to cool it, and drag a cool one up to the wall to fire. You can also tap a cat to select it, then tap where it should go. Only cats on the wall shoot. The bar under each cat is its burn time — when it runs out the cat jams, stops firing and has to cool before it works again. Call a cat with the button at the bottom; gold comes from every Mildew you kill. Don't let them reach the gate. When the gate falls, the level is over. Esc pauses, M mutes.