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HATS n’ daCATs: The Hatverse

Current chapter The Cursed 31: First Night

Beta open · Cursed District open

THE CURSED DISTRICTChecking the gate…
SAFE ZONE

Cyber City

OPEN BETA
Opening The Hatverse…

Preparing your first night.

Your hideout is through the left doorway. Find your wrench on the workbench.
WASD / arrows or tap to move · Auto-attack nearby enemies · Walk near items to collect
THE KEEPER’S WORKBENCH

Craft your hideout.

Choose a design. Spend materials. Make it yours.

Workbench & gallery upgrades

Ownership limits count stored and placed copies together. Earned trophies and gifts stay yours.

Welcome to First Night.

Beta is open. Create a profile with your email—no ChatGPT account needed. You can also try the game as a guest. The Cursed District is open.

Take Cyber City’s left doorway to your hideout. Walk up to the workbench at the top of the room to equip the Keeper’s wrench. Open your welcome supply crate near the back wall.

Take Cyber City’s upper doorway to the Workshop. Rescue the keeper from a gremlin: approach it to auto-attack, then move out of orange warning marks. Bare paws cannot hurt it. If you fall, you return safely to the hideout and can try again. The gremlin stays gone once defeated.

The rescued keeper offers crafting, fresh daily supplies and a daily hunt for three parcels in Cyber City. Parcels refresh at midnight Eastern. Deliver them on three different days to earn the exclusive Keeper’s Star lantern. Use the materials to craft, decorate, upgrade your hideout and try on hats at your mirror.

Keeper’s and Volt wrenches stay at the District gate. Defeat the first guardian to collect and equip the Rusty Wrench. Paper-hands drops the stronger Cursed Wrench; both District weapons remain yours for subsequent runs. Without a District weapon equipped, fight with automatic claw swipes. Explore five Cursed District rooms, dodge guardian attacks, and collect relics. Uncleared rooms drain one heart every 25 seconds. Defeating a guardian stops the curse and drops a full-health pack. Menus and Pause stop combat and the curse.

Click the bed to rest; move to get back up. Click or tap the radio, poster or storage chest to interact—walking past them never opens a menu. Use their Move and Store buttons, or select them in Decorate. Your poster collection lives in the basement gallery. Walk down the stairs at the bottom of your hideout to enter the basement. Empty wall spaces are reserved for future posters. Select Decorate to freely move your mirror or move and store your decorations. Welcome mats sit beneath your feet. Toggle Hints in the toolbar whenever you like. Moving and storing never consumes it.

Desktop: WASD or arrow keys, Shift to dash once unlocked, Escape to pause or cancel.
Mobile: thumbstick to move, or tap the floor; walk over resources to collect them. Approach the keeper or mirror to open it.

Clearing all five guardians permanently unlocks Dash. Resources stay collected during an expedition. Once you have cleared the dungeon and collected all guardian loot, start a new expedition from your Journal to replenish resources.

Guest progress saves automatically on this browser’s session. Create a profile to keep playing across devices. Batch 01 hat requests are reviewed by the owner.
CHAPTER 01

The Cursed 31: First Night

Find your wrench, rescue the keeper and make your hideout your own. The Cursed District is open.
YOUR HIDEOUT MIRROR

Find your look.

Classic daCAT

Your starting look.

Hats change your look. Every player has the same combat abilities.
HATQUARTERS · KEEPER’S COUNTER

The Workshop

A little salvage. A little magic.

YOUR HAT DELIVERY

A look with your name on it.

Collect hats here. Equip them at your hideout mirror.
DAILY SPILLWAY BOUNTY

CYBER CITY CLEANUP

A rat problem

KEEPER’S FAVOR

Today’s parcel hunt

Your Hatverse profile

No password or ChatGPT account needed. Your email is used for sign-in.

Need an account reset? Contact the owner with your player ID.

Your Batch 01 hats

Send the owner your NFT details. Once ownership is verified and your request approved, pick up the hat from the Workshop keeper, then wear it at your hideout mirror. No wallet connection or transaction is required.

Your requests
THE HATVERSE

Chapter journal

The Cursed 31: First Night

The Cursed District is open. Rescue the keeper, craft your collection and explore the five rooms.

 A GIFT FROM THE WORKSHOP
THE CURSED DISTRICT

Five rooms. One first night.

daCAT faces a haunted factory beneath the purple moon

The Cursed District is open. Make your hideout yours, help the keeper and explore the five rooms.

  1. The Broken ApproachHunting stitchlings · Matriarch’s seal
  2. Pumpkin FoundryTargeted ember bursts · Cinder heart
  3. Shard ReservoirCharging runners · Reservoir prism
  4. Spectral GalleryTeleporting specters · Hollow lantern
  5. The Sealed LaboratoryPaper-hands · Trophy poster · First Night core · permanent Dash

Stronger guardians, larger rewards. Dodge a marked attack, then strike while the guardian is exposed.

COMMUNITY FREQUENCIES

daCAT Radio

daCAT radio with brass knobs and a teal tuning dial

Community tracks are coming soon.

Click the radio in your hideout to choose music. Music carries quietly into Cyber City and the basement. Your volume and mute settings are remembered on this device.
FROM THE daCAT COMMUNITY

A familiar darkness.

Three shadowy crowned cats with glowing yellow eyes beneath a full moon

A little piece of the daCAT community, right here at home.

Paper-hands, the masked final guardian

Game menu

YOUR daCAT

Player inventory

Change your hat at the hideout mirror.

Starting outfit · No armor collected

Empty

Collected equipment

Backpack

Combat pauses while this menu is open. Place decorations from your hideout storage.

Your storage chest

Your materials, equipment, hats and decorations. Community event cosmetics can be switched on or off below; change hats at your mirror.

Your progress has a recovery copy.

A different or newer save is already online. We will not replace it automatically. You can download the pending device copy for the owner to help recover, then continue with your online adventure.

Beta feedback

Found a problem or have an idea? Send it to the owner’s beta inbox.

TOGETHER IN THE HATVERSE

Community raid

One verified five-room raid makes you eligible. Counted clears fill the shared meter, up to the daily cap. Every unlocked milestone is awarded to every eligible player after the event ends. Collect from the Workshop keeper.

Paper-hands’ personal poster stays an immediate loot drop, separate from these prizes.

Finish each room in one visit for verification. If a room is interrupted by a defeat, reload or disconnect, start a fresh community raid in your Journal. Your collected items stay safe.