Manor Lords publisher announces a new city builder that sounds like a Disney movie turned into a colony and automation sim where “verticality is key”

Riding high on the breakout success of Manor Lords but insisting it’s “a little unfair to judge us” on one runaway hit, publisher Hooded Horse announced a new city builder today that looks equal parts cute and engrossing. It’s called Whiskerwood, and it’s about colonies of mice toiling away “under the iron paw of cats.” 

Picture Don Bluth’s An American Tail spliced with Disney‘s Aristocats and you’re most of the way there – just add a few shakes of feudalism and then accidentally drop the whole dang bottle into the pot. In Whiskerwood, oppressive cats force the mouse proletariat to create offshore colonies on untapped islands and ship their resources back to the motherland. “Come rain or shine, the shipments must be fulfilled to feline satisfaction lest they call upon their henchmen to violently remind you of your duties,” the game’s Steam page reads. “Will you forever serve this oppressive paw? Or will you raise your whiskers in defiance?”