What Talking Tom Cat 2 Actually Is
Talking Tom Cat 2 is Outfit7’s follow-up virtual pet app, where you poke, stroke, dress up, and talk to an animated cat who repeats what you say back in a squeaky voice. It’s built for young kids and families looking for a quick, silly diversion, with options to customize Tom’s outfits and home, record short video clips, and generally mess around with cause-and-effect gags like popping a paper bag or smashing a pillow. With hundreds of millions of installs, it’s clearly found a huge audience, mostly among younger children and the parents who hand them a phone for a few minutes of peace.
The Core Fun Still Works
When you strip away everything else, the basic novelty holds up. Reviewers point out there are ‘tons of cosmetics to unlock’ and that poking, talking to, and dressing up Tom is ‘always fun to unlock new stuff.’ One long-time fan simply says they ‘love the game’ with no complaints, and another notes the slow-paced coin collecting is enjoyable even if progress is limited. For the target audience of small children, the appeal of a talking cat that mimics your voice and reacts to touch clearly still lands.
Ads Have Taken Over the Experience
The most consistent and loudest complaint across reviews is the sheer volume of advertising. One parent describes their 4-year-old getting ‘about 30 seconds of play time before 30 second ads come along,’ and flatly calls the app ‘an advertising platform with bits of entertainment in between.’ Another reviewer says recording videos is now ‘interrupted by adds’ and that without a paid ad-free option, the experience just isn’t fun anymore. A one-star review sums it up bluntly: ‘only advertisement, completely trash.’ This is a real, repeated pattern in the feedback, not an isolated gripe.
Features Lost Compared to Earlier Versions
Long-time players also flag regressions rather than just ads. One reviewer is specifically frustrated that Outfit7 removed Google Play Games sign-in, which broke achievement unlocking unless you roll back to an older version, killing replay value the feature used to add. Others feel the sequel is ‘a bit lackluster to the original,’ noting that despite having more features on paper, there’s ‘not as much comedic value’ and fewer genuinely funny moments compared to the first game.
Who Should Actually Download This
If you have a young child who just wants to poke a cartoon cat and hear it talk back for a few minutes at a time, and you don’t mind supervising through frequent ad breaks, this app will do the job — it’s free, simple, and the core gimmick still works. But if you’re hoping for the ad-light experience some remember from years ago, or you want achievement tracking and deeper replay value, you’ll likely be disappointed. Parents should go in expecting a genuinely ad-heavy free-to-play title, not a return to the low-friction fun the original once offered, and should sit nearby to manage skip buttons and any in-app purchase prompts that come up.
