Reigning Cats

This game has potential to be good but there are some major flaws :
- the potty feature is absolutely pointless and too easy to get stuff and gold while the feeding feature is absolutely too boring, there should be a balance between the 2.
- menu and help features are not enough and should be much improved, no idea or no help whatsoever on the usage of the items at all.
- tutorial should be improved to provide more info, such at least let players know archer does not do shlt in night.
- I bought the game based on the description this game has various modes, however there is no such option in the game to select those modes from get go, if I have to earn it, I get it and no problem, but at least at the menu I should have such info.
Overall, the design and idea of this game looks very decent, but the info to help players to get into the game is absolutely lacking and a better job is needed on this area.
Overall, I will still recommend this.

7/10
Cute/silly fun, well balanced, challenging, slightly tedious.
I bought it during the 50% off sale just to give it a try. My first time playing, I enjoyed it enough that I played for almost three hours straight.
Some people have mentioned a problem launching the game, but I haven't encountered that, nor any other problems.
I get why some people are getting stuck. Near the beginning, your progress will be a crawl unless you do the two mini games at least once each. Once you do this, you're able to buy some upgrades that make the battles go much better. Once you get a few upgrades, the battles themselves will give you all the money you need. They're very well balanced so that it's a tough challenge to come out ahead on money, but if you plan it right, you will.
The mini games are just silly phone-app type games that are a bit monotonous, but they're not terrible. They're just there as a way for you to earn extra money IF you need to. They help to ensure that you won't be stuck if you can't come out ahead in the battles. In one, you have to feed the cats in a dumbed down version of a diner game. In the other, you have to scoop their litter box. The only real challenge or interest in the litter box game is just seeing how fast you can rack up the money and how many hidden treasures you can find.
There's also a spy-dog on the main screen who offers to sell you items at very high prices. I found out by accident that once you buy these, they are permanently available to you in the main game at a small cost. Once you can buy some of these, it makes getting to higher waves in the main game much easier, which means you'll gain plenty of money in every battle.
At $2.50, I consider this a great buy. It's cheesy fun, something different. $5 is probably about just right for this game if it speaks to you, but if you can get it on sale, I recommend it even if you're just somewhat curious.

The game is funny and challenging.
I got this game from groupees.com for 3 bucks as a bonus but it feels like it's worth is more than what I paid for.
It's a different kind of Tower Defense, it requires decision making wether you have to take the beating alone to gain more gold at game over, or you can continue to dare and try if your cat defenses are strong enough for the next wave.
There are 6 cats with different attacks and each with 2 modes(needs upgrading). And the king can have up to 6 different modes/attacks.
There are a total of 13 dogs with different attacks and you need to remember how to deal with them so you can protect the king.
The Bosses are quite challenging, but there's a line up of who's coming first so you can prepare and set up your defenses accordingly.
The mini games are a nice change of pace since the main game can get frantic. But the only thing is the litter box can be tedious.
Since last update, there are now two game modes where the king requires donation everytime you go to battle and the other one is more casual and relax mode.
There are three additional games to unlock, one you have to buy from the dog, the other one from finishing the main game, and the third which is night mode only(hard).
Overall, it's a fun game and yes it has some flaws, but it looks like the developer is putting a lot of efforts and constantly updating it. You can see the dedication and love that the developers puts in it.
If you love tower defense, I think you should give this a try.

Hell Fucking Yeah this game is badass the cats are cute pussies and are gonna destroy the cute female dogs/bitches this game is fucking amazing you can clean their shit and earn money and you can fucking have super cute cats its fucking perfect.

*NEW REVIEW 8-31-15*
Changed to "recommended" for anyone even slightly interested in tower defense games and cats. The best part is probably the dev's quick response to fixing the issues myself and other reviewers have had with the game, including bugs.
Since the dev has now fixed the bugs preventing me from progressing, I can now see more of the changes made since my original review (below). I have not earned my way to the different modes yet, so I'm just on the first one and my review only covers that. I'm playing in ez mode where Kingkat does not take your coins down to 500 as he did originally (and still does in the harder mode). In ez mode you get to keep whatever you earn and take as much as you want into battle. This may be OP and not challenging for many players, and those players can of course choose to play the harder mode. Since tower defense games aren't really my favorite (this is the only one I own in fact) it's a welcome casual feel for me and anyone looking for a casual but still fun experience would enjoy this, no doubt. Even with unlimited coins allowed in battle, you still can't expect to breeze through the game without earning upgrades and being tactical in your approach to defense.
Dev has also made the litterbox minigame much less annoying than it was originally. It's now much faster paced. Now too that I've been able to progress well it's not even necessary to play it since I can get a ton of coins from actual tower defense, but you do get free items from playing it and coins are always useful so it's never a pointless game, but can be avoided after a lot of progression if you desire. The Chow minigame could be avoided as well if you find yourself drowning in coins from simply chewing on dogs instead, but I find it interesting.
In case viewers opt not to read my original review below, the last part is still valid, so a repeat here: "The music is also quite catchy and the style of the game is fitting for what it seems like it's trying to be, not really sure how to describe the style though without coming off as though I don't like it. I'm neutral on that stance if anything, it's in no way bad."
The only issue I see now is that there doesn't appear to be a way to swap modes, so once you choose ez or hard you're stuck with it. Will suggest that among a couple other things in a post on the forums, otherwise I feel it's solid from what I've seen so far.
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*ORIGINAL REVIEW*
I suppose I should start with the disclaimer that I'm not usually a fan of tower defense games. This is in fact the only one I own. Unfortunately, this is much less a tower defense and more a litter box cleaning simulator. Yes, you can earn coins by other means, but here's the main problems with those means:
1. The "chow" mini game (where you feed cats for coins and to be able to earn them for free use during battle) can only be played once and only if you progressed during your last run. I've not been able to play it after 3 runs now, I assume that's because each time I only managed to make it to wave 10 each time, never beating my highest score.
2. If you have more than 500 coins before entering battle, Kingkat takes all of your excess coins from you. He does NOT return them afterwards. If you're stuck like I am, this really sucks because that means you can't actually gain any coins simply by battling, you absolutely must play the litter box mini game and ONLY the litter box mini game to earn upgrades.
Now, this would be fine if the litterbox mini game was not tedious and irritating... but it is. Grab one poo, another appears, sometimes multiple. The small ones are worth 60, large worth 100, and it takes a bit of time to sift them, so it's not instant pick up. There's also the little waves of urine odor which can be dealt with with a spray that you earn through the litterbox mini game, but they also vanish over time if you just leave them. If you do manage to clear out the whole litter box you get a rain of money until something appears again. It's quite difficult to keep the box cleared though, so you sit there having to poke at it for quite a while before being able to upgrade anything.
If the dev reads this at all, I would ask you to consider either changing the way the litterbox minigame works (make it less tedious or make cleaning it more worth while) or add other means of making money, maybe more mini games or make battling more worthwhile (no more greedy Kingkats maybe). If any of that gets changed I will gladly revisit the game and consider changing my review to "recommended" instead of not.
If you can get past the tediousness of the upgrades system, the tower defense part is pretty fun from what I've been able to see so far. The music is also quite catchy and the style of the game is fitting for what it seems like it's trying to be, not really sure how to describe the style though without coming off as though I don't like it. I'm neutral on that stance if anything, it's in no way bad.

7min of this game
The main game is a tower defense where you defend against waves of dogs but later you can play as the dogs attacking.
basics are: get money, upgrade castle, get new mercs, buy items and repeat.
you get cash from 2 mini games and fending off hoards of dogs.
the 2 mini games are feeding your mercs (they sit and ask for stuff and you drag it down from up top to them), and cleaning the litter box (shift litter for droppings and item).
the tower defense is basic stuff if you played one before.
if not you have some cash to start with and buy then place units.
as you take out incoming attackers you'll get a cash value for them so you can buy more units or items.
you can also steal money with rogues and by sending kitties on adventures.
each unit has 2 abilities with 6 units in all not counting the kitty king with his own buyable abilities.
the round ends by losing your kitty king or downing all 5 bosses.
the big bad wolf mode
here you play as the dogs storming the castle.
the wolf wonders the field and uses cards to do various thing but mostly to summon other dogs to attack.
this mode ends when your wolf dies or you down the lead cat.

If you like scooping poop, this is game for you!