It's an animal extravaganza! We're talking pets in games this week. Alice joins us to praise a terrible raccoon Pokémon who's great at surfing. Pip adores the ghostly holo-cat of Tacoma. But I prefer a cute xenomorph.

We also talk about birdy meditation of Fugl, the ratty wars of strategy game Tooth and Tail, and the ever-popular man-murder of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. On top of that, we confront the producer of The Sims 4 Cats and Dogs with some Quickfire Questions.

Links:

Have you played... Alien: Isolation? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/25/alien-isolation-game/

Cuteness overwhelming in Ooblets: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/22/cuteness-overwhelming-in-ooblets-trailer/

Animal Inspector is Papers Please with pets: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/16/free-3-our-final-batch-of-games-to-tide-you-over/

The Sims 4 Cats & Dogs expansion : https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/21/the-sims-4-cats-and-dogs-expansion-announced/

Firewatch features portable tortoise: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/16/firewatch-e3-2015-trailer-tortoise/

Turtle/tortoise nomenclature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise#Use_of_the_terms_turtle.2C_tortoise.2C_and_terrapin

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds gets foggy: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/08/playerunknowns-battlegrounds-adding-fog-map-mini-14-riffle/

Cute animals go to war in Tooth and Tail: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/13/tooth-and-tail-rts-released/

The swoopy bird-flying of Fugl: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/09/14/fugl-early-access-play/