Bongo Cat developer Marcel Zurawka has a new game coming out soon: another Steam exclusive called Tap Tap Loot. The upcoming title aims to further explore the idle entertainment design philosophy that made Bongo Cat one of the biggest Steam breakout hits in recent memory.
Released in early May 2025, Bongo Cat took Steam by storm, with its whimsical mix of cosmetics chasing and pomodoro timing resonating with a huge demographic. Specifically, it peaked at nearly 195,000 concurrent players on Valve’s platform. The milestone placed it just outside the top 30 highest peaks recorded on Steam over the course of last year. Compared to other casual titles, however, it was the second-biggest game that graced Valve’s marketplace in 2025, only (marginally) behind Banana, a 2024 viral clicker that did admirably to maintain its momentum last year.
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Bongo Cat Is Getting a Spiritual Sequel
Midway through January 2026, Bongo Cat publisher Irox Games announced it will soon be launching another cute casual title on Steam. The game in question is Tap Tap Loot, first announced in February 2023 and currently in development by Bongo Cat creator Marcel Zurawka in collaboration with Turtle Knight Games. The free-to-play applet leans into gameplay more than Bongo Cat does, promising something akin to an incremental game experience. Specifically, Tap Tap Loot centers on a cute band of cats adventuring into the unknown, with player able to assist them as long as they remain active. As with Bongo Cat, every mouse or keyboard input produces visible feedback here, though Tap Tap Loot takes this a step further by giving its feline adventurers combat buffs if the player is active enough.
Tap Tap Loot Playtest Currently Underway
The Tap Tap Loot Steam page lists it as “coming soon” as of early February 2026. Its developers have recently launched a limited playtest intended to help them identify any last-minute issues. Invites have been going out since late January, seemingly in groups, with everyone who received them getting one invite for themselves and three more that they can freely gift on Steam.
Bongo Cat’s massive player peaks and viral item economy confirmed demand for low-input clickers is still as high as ever on PC. Tap Tap Loot could help Irox consolidate this casual audience with a deeper, party-friendly take on the same tap-to-progress-in-the-background gameplay. What’s more, Bongo Cat‘s highly unexpected but widely successful multiplayer experiment from last summer has seemingly influenced Tap Tap Loot, which will launch with a proper co-op adventuring mode from day one, allowing up to four players to embark on adventures together.
Like Bongo Cat, Tap Tap Loot will be a free-to-play Steam exclusive entirely supported by in-app purchases. A consistent influx of cosmetics is expected to be at the forefront of its monetization efforts. That said, its auto-battling RPG premise also leaves room for other, less universally liked types of microtransactions to be implemented here.
Tap Tap Loot Developer Has One More Game in the Works
Tap Tap Loot co-developer Turtle Knight is a small German studio that has to date released one game, the inventively named Footgun: Underground with a comparably memorable premise of being a cyberpunk soccer roguelite with fast-paced gameplay centered on physics-based combat, flashy pixel art, and—for some reason—piñatas. Footgun Underground is thus a brand-new sentence galore, with all of its core elements being highly experimental and decidedly unique. Apart from Tap Tap Loot, Turtle Knight is currently also working on KinPath, a strategy auto battler with a picturesque art style evocative of cozy children’s books, though the jury is still out on whether that’s a misdirection. Originally announced in summer 2025, KinPath is still without a release window.
