"Life is no way to treat an animal" is a game about life, death and trust.

>> Made by a teacher and their student

You play as a black cat, traversing an impossible platforming challenge, that can only be completed using the deaths of yourself or other players.

Every day you have 9 lives.

Whenever you die, you leave behind a tombstone for yourself and for others. Will you leave a helping hand or an explosive trap?

You will need the help of others to succeed, but do you trust them enough to accept their help and their words? And will you still be trustworthy yourself, even after exploding on a trap for the 9th time - leaving you to wait for another day for your 9 lives to regenerate?

Every time you start the game, a random selection of all players tombstones will be scattered throughout the map wherever they were placed. No two days will be ever be the same. Just like real life.

The ending is worth the challenge. Trust us.

Made for the Brackeys Game Jam 2026.2 with the theme Trust Noone

> DOWNLOAD GAME for fullscreen and better controller support (recommended)

Controls  ⌨️🖱️

• [A]/[D] to move
• [Space] to jump
• [Shift] to sprint
• [E] to explode
• [R] to respawn
• Hold [S] or [W] to look up or down
• [ESC] to pause
• [TAB] to Billy Pilgrim

Controller 🎮 (XBOX)

• Left Stick to move
• (A) to jump
• (RT) to sprint
• (X) to explode
• (Y) to respawn
• D-Pad Down/Up to look up/down
• (Menu) to pause
• [LB] to Billy Pilgrim

(Please try  with a controller if you have one - I spent way too long making the tombstone message input system for controllers)

Mobile 📱

• Left | Right lower half to move
• Upper half to jump
• Double tap to sprint
• Bomb (bottom) to explode

Known Issues

• Fullscreen is laggy in some browsers (disabled now)
  • Download game for fullscreen experience

Credits

• Level Design by SeverinUp (my awesome student!)
• Idea and Programming by AEPSchmitt (me)
• Inspired by the works of Kurt Vonnegut
• Made using Godot <3
• Cat sprite by bowpix
• SFX by my nephews and I
• Music is Bach - Air on the G String - Arranged for Music Box
  • License Terms: CC BY-NC 4.0

• Rainbow mode music by mlopezaudio

Secret Hints

• Checkpoints are only found by the curious
  • And only used by the brave
    
  • or those with good memory
• Did you meet The Wizard?
  • He lives to give you lives - for a price
• Stuck? Use your explosion to push tombstones away
  • Or restart and get a new set of tombstones
  • Or maybe poop on the problem? [Enter]/(R3)
• Lagging? Try downloading and installing instead
• If you enjoyed this, try my other game Betsy the Biscuit Better
  • It was made for last years Brackeys 2025.2
  • It is also a game about death - but with a lot more gambling.