Once a year, the digital and the creaturely converge: Steam's Cat Awareness Feline Sale 2026, organized by the Devcats collective and timed to International Cat Day, brings together more than 400 cat-themed games across eleven days in August. The event is both a marketplace and a message — a deliberate attempt to channel the cultural affection humans hold for cats into something that extends beyond the screen, toward adoption awareness and animal welfare. In the long tradition of art finding unexpected uses, here is a gaming festival that asks whether commerce and compassion might, for a momen