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NEON NEKO CAFÉ

District 1 · Neon Alley

TAP KIKO TO PET HER

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0 /sec1 per pet

PURR

Hire

NEON NEKO CAFÉ

Kiko runs the coziest cat girl café in the megacity. Pet her, hire a neon crew, and build a café empire across six districts.

MS-DOS EDITION

The real DOS game, running in DOSBox-X compiled to WebAssembly. Pick a PC, pick its cards, power on.

386+ DOS/32AVGA·EGA·CGA·HGC·TandySB·GUS·AdLib·MIDI

Neon Neko Cafe title screen with Kiko, the pink-haired cat girl

Boots a VGA PC with a Sound Blaster 16 and runs NEKO.EXE

Powered off.

Click the screen to give it the keyboard. In the game: click Kiko or press Space to pet her, 1–4 open the panels, Esc quits to DOS. Idle on the title for 15 seconds to watch the attract-mode demo.

Your cafe (NEKO.SAV) and any settings saved from SETUP are kept in this browser and come back the next time you power on.

WINDOWS EDITION

The same café as a native Windows game: one small EXE, no installer, no DirectX, nothing else to download. Built to run on everything from Windows 95 to Windows 11.

Download for WindowsNeonNekoCafe-Windows.zip · 172 KB · NeonNekoCafe.exe + README

Unzip and double-click NeonNekoCafe.exe. Windows 10/11 may warn that the app is unrecognised because it isn't code-signed: choose More info, then Run anyway.

The café with Kiko and her crew in the Windows edition

Hiring staff in the Staff panel — Hire a neon crew

Kiko's Jukebox showing the piano roll visualizer — Kiko's Jukebox · piano roll

Kiko's Jukebox showing the plasma visualizer — Jukebox · Neko Plasma

What's in it

The full game: staff, upgrade tree, customers, Purr Frenzies, relocating across six districts, achievements
Kiko's Jukebox with five visualizers fed by the real audio
Attract-mode demo, Kiko's "Nyaa~!", and the secret codes
No menus or chrome: window size 1×–4× (F9), 4:3 CRT picture or square pixels (F8), full screen with Alt+Enter, all keys on F1
Saves to %APPDATA%\NeonNekoCafe

Keys

Space: pet Kiko
1–4: Staff, Upgrades, Relocate, Info
B: hire ×1 / ×10 / MAX
M / S: music / effects
J: Kiko's Jukebox
Alt+Enter: full screen
F8 / F9: picture shape / window size
F1: all keys

Under the hood

Native Win32 built with Open Watcom C. It shares its game code with the MS-DOS edition: the same 320×200 picture is scaled with GDI, the same chiptune synth streams through waveOut on its own thread, and the art is packed inside the EXE.