The Isle of Cats is a competitive, medium-weight, card-drafting, polyomino cat-placement board game for up to 4 players (6 with expansions).

You are citizens of Squalls End on a rescue mission to The Isle of Cats and must rescue as many cats as you can before the evil Lord Vesh arrives. Each cat is depicted by a unique tile and belongs to a family, you must find a way to make them all fit on your boat while keeping families together.

You also have to manage resources as you:

• Investigate the island (by drafting cards)
• Save the cats
• Discover treasures
• Support Oshax
• Research ancient lessons

Each lesson you collect gives you another personal way of scoring points, and there are 38 unique lessons available.

Complete lessons, fill your boat, and keep cat families together to score points, the winner is the player with the most points after five rounds.