Pictective 2: Around The World News & Patch Notes

Hi everyone, July is here and that means it's time for another update from us :D

While working on level 4 for Cats and Seek: Zoo, we also pushed an update to the Zoo demo. Thanks to your reports and help, the photo size bug that we could never manage to reproduce on our end has finally been fixed! For those of you who experienced the same bug, go ahead and update your demo.

This demo update also brings back the box and key feature that was in Cats and Seek: Kyoto, hope you guys enjoy it ^^

And as requested by some of you, we're bringing back the community translation project for Cats and Seek: Zoo! If you're interested in joining, head over to the discussion forum here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3992310/discussions/0/567039101767792191/

Last but not least, some of you may have already noticed that a release date for Cats and Seek: Zoo has appeared, which is July 31, 2026. However, I recently found an issue in the latest full build that I'm currently trying to fix. Hopefully it'll be resolved before July 14, but if it's not quite there yet, the release might get pushed back a little XD

Sorry for any inconvenience!

That's all from us this month, thanks for reading :D Hope you all have wonderful days ahead ^^

Love, UB & Estu PS : Dont forget to wishlist our upcoming games :D

Hi everyone, July is here and that means it's time for another update from us :D

This demo update also brings back the box and key feature that was in Cats and Seek: Kyoto, hope you guys enjoy it ^^

Sorry for any inconvenience!

That's all from us this month, thanks for reading :D Hope you all have wonderful days ahead ^^

Love, UB & Estu PS : Dont forget to wishlist our upcoming games :D

Hi everyone! :D How are you all doing? We hope you're all well and happy as always.

After taking a short break at the end of April, we're back with some updates about our games. Yay!

First, about Cats and Seek: Zoo.. last week, Estu finally finished drawing all the zoo areas! Now it's my turn to implement all the illustrations into the code :D I'm aiming to finish everything by the end of this month so we can join Steam Next Fest with peace of mind ^^

Here are some sneak peeks of the last zoo areas:

Someone asked in the discussion forum whether there will be an open volunteer call for translating Cats and Seek: Zoo. Yes, there will be! We'll open the translation volunteer registration once we've finalized the total number of cats in the game. Please wait a little longer ^^

Next update is about the Cats Around Us series. Does anyone remember the image we shared in last March’s post with no context? That was actually a sneak peek for the next title in the series. We’ve named it Cats Around Us: Pizza Boy, and for this game, we’re collaborating with Chonky Turtle!

Right now, we don't have a store page for it yet. We'll announce it in the upcoming updates ^^

And our last update is... we were actually supposed to post this back in mid-May after we got back from our break, but we felt a little embarrassed dropping just 1 post to announce 1 thing and on top of that it's about a vacation XD so we just decided to bundle everything together here!

So yeah, we recently went back to Japan for a little vacation and to scout out the next city for our Japan Cats and Seek series ^^ and we stopped by Kobe!

Just 30 minutes from Osaka by train, Kobe has a much more relaxed vibe compared to its neighbor. We were lucky to visit during Golden Week though.. Golden Week meant the city was packed with families enjoying their holiday, and we also kept crossing paths with groups of young people hanging out and having fun in parks and open spaces. We spent a few days just wandering around and capturing as many cool moments as we could for the game.

We're planning to start development on Cats and Seek: Kobe right after Zoo releases, so keep an eye out for updates in our future posts :D

That's all for our quick updates this time. We hope everything we planned for June goes smoothly, and we wish you all a wonderful and happy June as well ^^ Love UB & Estu P.S. Don't forget to wishlist our upcoming games if you haven't yet Cats and Seek: Zoo and Cats Around Us: Yarn Ball! thank you all ^^

Implemented some changes based on ACBL80's feedback: • Added an icon showing which mode is currently being played • Changed the name from 'Speedrun Mode' to 'Panic Mode' to avoid misunderstanding Thank you so much for the suggestions, ACBL80! :D

Update translation for Sweden and Czech thanks to Anki & siSINka for the help :D

Yay! Pictective 2 is finally out! :D

Let’s travel around the world, explore beautiful photos, and find Oyen’s hiding spots again!

Big thanks to everyone who wishlisted it! Lets go play it now!! Oh, and don’t forget to leave a review if you can ^^ it helps the game’s visibility :D If you find any bugs or have suggestions, feel free to post them in the discussion forum. Thank you all! Happy playing! ^^

Love,

UB & Estu -------- Dont forget to wishlist our upcoming hidden object games :D

Hello everyone! How are you all doing? Time flies so fast.. another month has already passed. I hope you’ve all been well and happy.

In March, we continued working on Cats and Seek: Zoo and Pictective 2.

How’s Cats and Seek: Zoo doing?

Estu is continuing to draw the animals for the next enclosures. Here are some sneak peeks of the animals in Level 4 that she drew this March.

Estu still has one more level to draw. Please wish her luck so she can finish it smoothly XD Dont forget to wishlist Cats and Seek: Zoo ^^ Any progress on Pictective 2?

Yup! Pictective 2 is now in its final development stage. We’ve collected 108 photos from 12 countries that are ready to play.

Finding the right photos turned out to be more challenging than I thought, especially with the new Random Mode. I had to make sure each photo still had enough space and clear visual clues even when the spots are placed randomly.

After careful selection, here are the 12 countries that will be featured in Pictective 2:

France
Japan
Germany
Brazil
United States
Spain
Italy
Greece
Switzerland
Poland
Portugal
Turkey

Because of the Random Mode requirements, I couldn’t keep my promise to Bad1080 about adding more garden photos. Sorry about that, Bad1080. I’ll find another way to showcase those garden photos in a future game. We’re aiming to release Pictective 2 in April (fingers crossed!). Because it gets closer to launch, I’d love your help translating the country/categories names again.. if you’re interested, feel free to comment in this forum!

Dont forget to wishlist Pictective 2 ^^

Also, we’re planning to take a short development break at the end of April, so the April’s update might be delayed (probably arriving in mid-May). Hopefully we can share a little surprise in the May update XD

That’s all from us for now. I need to get back to work so we can release Pictective 2 soon! hehe..

Love, UB & Estu

Wow, it's already the last day of 2025... time really flew by so fast, didn't it? One whole year just passed in a blink! Come on, let's take a little trip down memory lane!

January

At the start of January, we officially announced the next title in the Cats Around Us series: Black Cat! This month also marked the first time we shared an early prototype of what would later become Pictective.

We wrapped up the month with an exciting surprise collab release with Toge Production to celebrate their birthday: Cats and Seek: Togeland!

February

Cats and Seek: Osaka, which launched on consoles late last year, got the exciting chance to be featured in the Creators: East, South and SE Asian collection on Xbox this month!

We were also join two special Steam events: the Days of Ramadan sale and the Women's Day Sale. Super grateful for the support!

March

In March, Cats and Seek: Dino Park officially launched on consoles! A huge thank you to our wonderful partners at Silesia Games for bringing our games to console platforms.

This month also marked a very special milestone.. we tried collaborating with the community for the first time to translate in-game text, starting with Cats and Seek: Tokyo! It was an exciting step, and we're so grateful for everyone's help.

April

In April, Cats and Seek: Dino Park (which had launched on consoles the previous month) had the wonderful opportunity to be included in the Creators: East, South and SE Asian collection on Xbox. This month also brought a very exciting milestone.. the prototype we first shared back in January was officially announced as being in production, under its new title Pictective!

We then continued the excitement by releasing the fifth title in the Cats and Seek series: Cats and Seek: Tokyo, completing our Japan travel trilogy.

May

In May, we spent most of our time focusing on visuals! We held a fun community vote to decide the character design for Doma in Pictective, and the response was amazing! thank you to everyone who joined in!

We also gave our Noobzilla logo a fresh makeover :D

Toward the end of the month, we released the demo for Cats Around Us: Black Cat!

June

This month, Cats Around Us: Black Cat joined two massive events: Steam Next Fest and Southeast Asian Games Showcase: Summer Game Fest Edition!

Those events were a total game-changer for our wishlists, helping Cats Around Us: Black Cat land on the Popular Upcoming charts!

July

In July, Noobzilla got an awesome invite from our friends at Neon Doctrin to join the super fun Carnival of Chaos event!

Cats and Seek: Dino Park also made a comeback in the Creators: East, South and SE Asian collection on Xbox this month! yay!!

And shoutout to our amazing community for helping translate the cat descriptions again! This time, Cats Around Us: Black Cat got some incredible support from you!

August

This month, we joined two awesome events.. Hargai - Indonesia Game Day and East Asia Indie Games Celebration! A massive thank you for giving us the chance to participate, super grateful!

September

We jumped into two more events this month: Game Devs of Color Expo and the super exciting annual one we've been eagerly waiting for.. CAT AWARENESS FELINE SALE! Huge thanks to Devcats for always making this happen every year! we love it!

This month we also launched Cats Around Us: Black Cat, dropped the Pictective demo, and announced the next Cats and Seek title: Cats and Seek: Zoo!

Wow, what a super packed month!

October

In October, our awesome partners at Silesia Games released our next game on consoles. This time it was Cats and Seek: Kyoto's turn!

Our beloved composer, Mijil Pamungkas, dropped the awesome album Noobzilla: Original Soundtracks, Vol.1 on Spotify this month! If you're a fan of the tunes in our Noobzilla games, go check it out and give it a listen ^^

We also participated in this month’s Steam Next Fest. This time, it was Pictective’s turn!

November

This month, our amazing community came together again in full force to help translate the in-game text!

This time, Pictective received incredible support from so many friends in the community, and we successfully translated it into more than 30 languages!

A massive, heartfelt thank you to every single one of you ^^

December

We kicked off the final month of 2025 with the release of Pictective!

We also joined the annual Southeast Asia Games Onward 2025 event, powered by hundreds of amazing VTubers and SEA content creators.. Big thanks so much to SEAGamethetic for the invitation!

And to wrap it up perfectly, we announced the exciting second installment Pictective 2: Around The World!

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Wow, it turns out we accomplished so much this year! and it’s all thanks to your support.

Thank you Mijil Pamungkas for always creating amazing music for Noobzilla.

Thank you Hendra Kusmana, Ardianto Candra, and Febryan (Ufo Rabbit) for help on Pictective.

Thank you Apit no Baka and Dimas Novan Delfiano for help on Cats Around Us: Black Cat.

A big thank you to Sajo and the whole Toge Production team for the collaboration opportunity.

A massive thank you to all our community friends who’ve done an incredible job helping with the translation projects for Noobzilla games! And thank you so much for every piece of feedback, criticism, suggestion, and input you’ve given us along the way.. it all means a lot.

And of course, a very special thanks to you who’ve bought and played our games. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all your support this year ❤️

We’re truly grateful to have you all with us!

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Hopefully next year, we'll still get the chance to release more games that bring smiles to all of you (two titles scheduled for release in 2026 already announced, there are still 2 more titles we'll announce later, and we have 1 or 2 more prototypes that we want to test out XD).

And you're all always healthy and have tons of chances to play our games ❤️ Warmest wishes from us to you and your loved ones...

See you again next year!

Love Estu & UB

Hi everyone! It’s finally here Pictective is officially out today!! A huge thank you to every single one of you who’s supported this project.

We can’t believe it’s already the end of the year.. from the moment you guys started testing the super early prototype at the beginning of 2025 until launch day today.

Your feedback during the prototype phase and all the mockup reviews after trying the demo meant the world to us. We really hope the updates we added make you happy ^^ (and sorry we couldn’t fit in every single suggestion!).

This time around we got tons of help from awesome friends:

Character designs by UFO Rabbit
Level designs by Candra Ardianto
And of course our favorite composer ever, Mijil Pamungkas :D

Big big thanks to all of them! ❤️ And of course a massive thank you to our awesome community friends who helped translate the category titles in the game into 32 languages!! You guys are legends :D

Arabic - Shouq

Bulgarian - imcringe

Chinese - aliceliuyf

Catalan - Yuratcha

Czech - siSINka

Danish - pixxlesalad, Dear Ochi

Deutsch - frankycl, AAG adler, UltraSven

Dutch - Eilinora

Finnish - Spedenaattori

French - Flanna , Leevi, Kementari, Nami

Greek - AryaDrottning05

Hebrew - Tearsandice

Hungarian - istvanszabo890629

Indonesia - UB

Icelandic - PaleFemale

Italiano - Losvke \

Japanese - Masa Kei

Korean - whiteday26

Lithuanian - CD

Malaysian - Lylalittle

Polish - I0aiir0, Aneril

Portuguese (BR) - Mxghostly, Nekobami7, KRY

Romanian - FindanTheElf

Russian - Andrey Gubin

Slovak - feshi

Slovenian - TMHWK

Spanish - Belen

Swedish - mien

Tagalog - justinetimeforgaming

Thai - marchstar

Turkish - Bluecaffeine

Ukrainian - boo

After making some hidden-cat games, Pictective was a totally new challenge for us.. of course it’s not perfect, haha.

If you run into any bugs or have ideas for the series, feel free to drop them in our forum: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3690390/discussions/0/598536531263852537/ or just shoot us an email at [email protected]

That’s pretty much it from us… this one year Pictective journey is coming to an end and it feels surreal. Happy playing, everyone! and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love and support along the way! ^^

Oh, and don’t forget to leave a review if you can :D it helps the game’s visibility a ton! :D

Love UB & Estu P.S. We’re already cooking up the next Pictective sequel 👀 Make sure to wishlist it, and let us know in the comments which country you’d love to see in the second game!

Pictective 2: Around The World news & patch notes