# The Cat and the Coup

Summer DB entity ID: 7b5314f7\-2d1e\-4f4c\-86a5\-0813c08bdeee

Steam App ID: 95700

In The Cat and the Coup, you play the cat of Dr\. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran\. During the summer of 1953, the CIA engineered a coup to bring about his downfall\. As a player, you coax Mossadegh back through significant events of his life by knocking objects off shelves, scattering his papers, and scratching him\.  The game, situated within the traditions of Persian miniature art form and cold war foreign policy, asks players to consider their connection to Iranian history\. The Cat and the Coup is both about the relationship between the Western video game player and Mossadegh and, by extension, the United States and Iran\. It lays a foundation for today’s critical question \-\- how do the people know when their democracy is threatened?

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad

- Publisher: Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad, USC Games

- Release date: Jun 15, 2011

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: true

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie, Free To Play

- Categories: Single\-player, Partial Controller Support, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_bf9628b643b65cbbeca0b983b1c84f9623c583a3\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_ed907b6c4eb9f42e6f8cd4d2e9c98c930319f2a8\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_61ae2e74792a734fc21e86e95264aaaa4b97cce6\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_b23b0269c17c424dbc37c94278a9cb2010db547b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_1be3c05d5614bfb2a28d7ddd938e913c82849523\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_47488f21bed99e1917022a1c67a2560b37c0b8c4\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_6950d448f79d80575a89615b6d0db2d2653b77ad\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_bd3ccde3055ded6e612b21d8a1ced08971872a2b\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/95700/ss\_35b2fa11ca01041f861485b4400bb26c0731086c\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1789175441

- Price: Not collected

- Price country: Not collected

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 2

- Steam review count: 1106

- Steam positive reviews: 1034

- Steam negative reviews: 72

- Steam positive percentage: 93.49005424954792%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

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Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-21T19:30:19\.162279\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-21T19:30:20\.534041\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-21T19:30:20\.188582\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

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