"Bongo Cat" is a relaxed and funny placement game: There is a cat wearing a hat that slaps the screen when you type.The gameplay is simple but extremely popular - it was once one of the most popular games on the Steam platform, and once ranked 12th on the list of Steam's most frequently played games.Four months later, it still ranks high on the list, and earlier this week, the game ushered in a better update – Bongo Cat finally supports multiplayer mode.

The "Co-op Meowtiplayer (Cooperating Multi-Meowtiplayer) Update" launched earlier this week allows up to 100 cats to gather together to form a digital cat legion with screen slap.Like the game itself, the core gameplay of multiplayer mode is very pure: it is still the original Bongo cat, but there are a lot of Bongo cats all at once.

The multiplayer mode is also extremely simple, which is its charm - just like other parts of the game, it basically belongs to "one-click startup, no worries": you can directly invite friends who are playing "Bongo Cat", or you can enter the room code to join the game of strangers.Everything else is handled automatically by Steam, so after entering the code, all kinds of cats will appear randomly on your screen and disappear until you leave the room or exit the game completely.

There is no complex interaction mechanism in multiplayer mode: the closest thing to interaction is to click on your cat to make it make a "meow" sound, which other players can see, and they can respond to you in this way as long as they want.But we can all show off our cat outfits, and when everyone typed, their bongo cats would slap the screen, which was particularly fun to watch.Some people typing on the keyboard wildly, and their Bongo cats slapped rhythmically; others were either fascinated by the scene or might have left their seats long ago.

From the SteamDB data, we can see that the number of players in "Bongo Cat" dropped sharply at the end of July: from a peak of about 150,000 (or even higher) to a 24-hour peak of 94,505.Game developer Marcel Zulafka said that this is the result of a crackdown on robot accounts - it is reported that robots account for about half of the number of people online at the same time before.After the crackdown, the number of online users of "Bongo Cat" once dropped to about 75,000, but has been steadily recovering since then.