Pluey

For the Mikes associated with this minigame, see Cat Mike or Small Mike.

Put on your shoe, hey, and sprint! It's raining cats&cats! Bring chosen ones to the ARK!

Instruction screen for Pluey on PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch versions

Pluey (JP: プルーイ) is a minigame introduced in Chapter 4 of Deltarune, and the only Mike minigame available on all platforms. Accessible through Mike's room in the TV Studio, it is hosted by Small Mike on the Nintendo Switch 2 version and Cat Mike on all other platforms.

Pluey requires the device's mouse controls to play.

Gameplay

The SOUL is in a circle and has legs, moved left and right with the position of the mouse. Blue cats appear which must be picked up using the MAUS and placed into a basket onto the right for points. The player can either drop or throw the cats into the basket, resulting in a default ten points to be added to the player's score. At the same time, rain drops fall from the sky in increasing frequency, hurting the SOUL if touched. Being hurt three times ends the game.

The blue cat dancing

When the minigame starts, shelters that block rain are present on the left and right sides of the screen, and blue cats start spawning one at a time from the left side of the screen. If the blue cat is left idle for 4 seconds, it starts dancing like the cats in Battat. After the first cat is put into the basket, rain will start falling.

On the Nintendo Switch 2 version, the player controls two hands via the Joy-Con 2's mouse controls.

Rain drops

A raindrop from the sky spawns whenever in the following formula is equal to 0, where is a variable that starts at 0 and increments by 1 every frame:

Getting hit by a rain drop takes away a life from the player and erases all rain drops already on-screen. Grazing a rain drop with the SOUL grants 1 point. This grazing is affected by the Pink Ribbon.

Rain drops can also knock a held blue cat out of the player's MAUS and knock a thrown cat backwards in mid-air.

After reaching 50 points in the minigame, the shelter on the left side of the screen goes away, and rain drops have a chance of being turned into falling blue cats, if is 0 and the following condition is set to true, where is the amount of rain drops since the last blue cat:

After reaching 500 points, the shelter on the right side goes away as well.

If the player does not put any blue cats in to the basket within a certain amount of time, a warning saying "DANGER! RISING PLUEY LEVELS!" will begin to appear, and water will rise in the background. When the warning becomes fully visible and the water level is just below the warning, rain drops have a 20% chance to become red, ignoring shelters and honing in on the player instead of only going downwards. The formulas for when rain drops spawn also change in this mode:

This state can be reverted if a blue cat is added to the basket or if the player loses a life. With more points, however, the time before "RISING PLUEY LEVELS" activates decreases and depositing blue cats becomes less effective at mitigating it. The warning state is effectively permanent at large amounts of points such as 3000 and above.

Combos

The player can achieve combos by putting multiple blue cats in the basket within a certain time frame. If the last cat was thrown into the basket, the timer for another cat to get in the basket is 70 frames (~2.3 seconds), while if the last cat was simply put into the basket, it is 100 frames (~3.3 seconds). Additionally, if the player's score is below 50, the timer will be increased by one second, regardless of the method used to get the cat into the basket. If a combo is still available to be continued with, the basket will be yellow.

The second and any succeeding cats of a combo put into the basket will use this formula to calculate the amount of points that should be added, assuming is initially set to 0 after the first cat of the combo is added to the basket:

Therefore, a combo of three will net 10 for the first cat, 20 points for the second cat, and then 25 for the third.

Ranking

Trophies received for Pluey depend on the player's high score.

Rank	Score
Bronze	100 points
Silver	300 points
Gold	500 points
Platinum	700 points

Creation and development

On February 17, 2025, Toby Fox made a side comment on his Bluesky account, stating that Pluey was not yet implemented.

On February 18, 2025, he made an individual post on Bluesky confirming that Pluey was implemented.

Gallery

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  The Pluey minigame on Nintendo Switch 2

Trivia

• Pluey likely comes from "pluie", which is French for "rain", given that the minigame centers around protecting cats from the rain, or "RISING PLUEY LEVELS".
• Pluey is an homage to Raindrop Sprinters, which Toby has played before. The description of the minigame, with the phrasing of "shoe, hey", references the name of Shuhei Miyazawa, the developer of the game. The developer of the game acknowledged this in a Steam news article.