Warriors, the globally popular series of novels about clans of feral and stray cats, has sold 90 million books.
Now the franchise has turned its sights on conquering two new mediums with a TV show (see our June post about the upcoming series) and a newly-announced video game.
Titled “Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest,” the upcoming release from Trailmark Games is a turn-based role-playing game that allows players to create their own unique cat who will run with his or her own crew and interact with major characters and the four clans from the novel universe.
The developers say the game world will include locations familiar to readers of the books, and quests will allow them to choose alliances and make other decisions that impact the story and the gameplay.
Before entering the world of Warriors, players will be able to name and create their own protagonist cat, complete with customized coat colors, markings, eye color and other features.
Since the majority of players will doubtlessly create characters based on their own felines, I’ve taken the liberty of using the game’s art style and editing a screen shot to add Buddy leaping through the air and casting two of his powerful spells, Wrath of Nature and Turkey Rejuvenation. The latter, of course, is a healing spell that restores health points via the magic of delicious turkey, in keeping with Buddesian lore. (And the behavior of the real life Buddy.)
Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest is scheduled for a fall 2026 release date on PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch/Switch 2, XBox X/S, and Playstation 5.
Here are some real screenshots from the game:
Pain In The Bud 
I bet “Warrios” is worth a try. The last game I played with a cat as the main character was “Gatoroboto” it’s like Metroid, but with a cat, a “catoid”.
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Interesting art style and choice to go monochrome. It’s got its Metroid influence written all over it.
The previews of this Warriors game indicate something along the lines of Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 in terms of using a classic RPG framework in an open 3D world.
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I loved Clair Obscure, especially the soundtrack. I think the people who will appreciate Warriors the most are those who have read the books, so I already have something to keep me busy until the game comes out.
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Indeed, the music and art in that game is incredible. I haven’t finished it yet.
It’s good to have another gamer in the community here. Playing anything good lately?
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Well, video games and animals are my weakness. Lately I’ve been playing Disco Elysium, and I’ve really enjoyed it so far. Although sometimes I feel like they’re talking about economic stuff that I don’t understand, and I think it would be good for me to read up on it a bit to get a better grasp of it… hahaha.
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The artwork for Disco Elysium is really cool and it looks like a unique game, but yeah, it’s one of those games that seems like you’re gonna love or hate, and you probably won’t be able to tell within the limited return window.
Have you played Control? That was one of my favorite games of the past 10 years and the sequel finally drops in late September. I’m not even sure what you can compare it to, the original was just its own brand of bizarre with really fluid, fun combat and a story that was a mix of the SCP Foundation and Art Bell’s Coast to Coast AM on an acid trip
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To be honest, no, I haven’t played Control, so I just saw it, and it looks brilliant. The combat seems pretty smooth. Thanks for the recommendation.
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On an unrelated note, last night I was looking for an old post and found that someone has been compiling my blog posts into ebooks and selling them at $40/each.
I’ll write a larger post about content scrapers at some point but just wanted to make it clear that I am not affiliated with these people, I don’t sell ebooks, and PITB is free. So if anyone sees this stuff out there, please don’t buy it and please drop me an email with the URL so I can file a takedown notice. Thanks!
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Man, that really sucks. I totally trust you, but I’m also really sorry that someone is profiting from your work without your permission.
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This sort of thing is unfortunately pretty common now, but I’d be bummed if people thought there was a PITB book and bought it only to find out it’s a bunch of old posts slapped together into an ebook by some content scraper.
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