India, Feb. 13 -- Cats are famously impossible to control on movie sets, yet filmmakers continue to cast them. They add something to a scene that a dog simply cannot, directors say: an element of intrigue or menace, a sense of being watched, and likely judged. (Click here for more on our favourite and most troublesome cat-stars in cinema.)

Videogames, of course, are a different matter. See how cats are being cast at will in these worlds, and how humans are being invited to step into their boots.

* STRAY (2022)

An orange feline wakes from a nap in a post-apocalyptic world, mistimes a jump, and tumbles into an underground cyberpunk city. Injured and far from its family, it must now learn to navigate this realm, in the company of a defunc...