About Pookutti Game

Updated October 2026, 11 minute read

Pookutti Game is a small comedy game made to be played in short bursts and shared with friends. It's part of WebAppBazaar, and made to give you a quick laugh.

The idea

The joke is simple: an action hero who refuses to get out of bed. Pookutti stays under the blanket while flying cats fill his room with noise, and the funniest possible response is a laser. Everything else exists to get you to that moment as fast as possible, with no tutorial levels, accounts or waiting.

The look and the sound

The art uses thick black ink lines and stick-figure bodies, so it looks like something drawn in the back of a school notebook. The characters are cartoon tributes to the Pookutti, Grumpy Cat and Smudge memes. The voices are Malayalam comedy clips, shuffled so that each one gets its turn.

How it's made

The game runs on plain web technology, directly in your browser. There's nothing to install. It's a small download, so it starts quickly on most connections.

Your privacy

Your best score is stored only in your browser, and the game doesn't ask for an account. You can read the site-wide details in the privacy policy.

Parody notice

This game is a parody for entertainment and stress relief. It contains crude humour and slang and isn't made for children. It has no connection with the owners of the original memes or anyone heard in the sound clips. Nothing in it is meant to disrespect anyone.

If you own any character or clip used here and want it changed or removed, please email [email protected], and we'll deal with your request.

What kind of game this is

Pookutti Game is a one-touch arcade shooter for short breaks. There's no story to follow, no levels to unlock and nothing to buy. You hold, aim, release and try to beat your own score. You could finish a session in a minute or lose half an hour to it, and either is fine.

It belongs to a long line of simple games built around one satisfying action. What gives it its character is the setting. Shooting games usually put you in a spaceship or on a battlefield. This one puts you under a blanket.

Why the hero never gets up

Most heroes run, jump and climb. Pookutti lies down. That single decision shapes almost everything about the game. There's no character to steer and no ground to cross, so the whole game can fit one thumb. It also makes the room feel funny. You're watching a very dramatic battle from the point of view of someone who won't leave their bed.

Plenty of people know the feeling. Your phone is in your hand, the day has been long and you have no plans to move. A game about refusing to stand up, played by someone who's also lying down, seemed like a good fit.

How the art was made

The whole game uses a deliberately rough, hand-inked style: stick-figure bodies, thick black outlines, flat colours and a bed that looks like it came from the back page of a school notebook. There are good practical reasons for it as well as comic ones.

• It's easy to read. Stick figures and bold outlines stay clear on a small phone screen, so you always know where your target is.
• It supports the joke. A rough drawing makes an explosion funnier than a polished one would.
• It loads quickly. Simple images are small, and that matters on a mobile connection.

The room is kept quiet on purpose, with a moonlit window, curtains, a picture on the wall and a rug. The soft colours mean the black lines of the cats stand out as they fly across it.

The expressions

Cartoon faces do a lot of the comedy here, so each character has several expressions and they're exaggerated enough to read at a small size.

Pookutti changes expression slowly while he waits, so you'll notice new faces during quiet moments. It's worth glancing down at him now and then.

The sound

The game uses short Malayalam comedy voice clips. Malayalam is the main language of the Indian state of Kerala, spoken by tens of millions of people there and around the world. Lines from Malayalam films and popular videos are a big part of its online humour, and people often know them by heart. A familiar clip at the right moment can get a bigger laugh than a whole script.

Three groups of clips cover the main events: a cat arriving, a hit and a miss. Each cat's clip loops until it's gone, which is meant to be a little annoying. It gives you one more reason to shoot it. Clips are shuffled rather than picked purely at random, so you hear every arrival clip once before any of them returns. The laser stays the same on every shot, so it gives you dependable feedback no matter which clip follows.

The on-screen text is in English, so anyone can pick up and play the game even if they don't understand Malayalam. If you do, the jokes will land harder.

The characters

Pookutti is our own lazy cartoon hero, a round-faced dog who has no plans to leave his bed. The two enemies come from the meme tradition, where an ordinary pet photo gets shared, strangers add their own jokes, and the picture becomes a kind of shared language.

Grumpy Cat was a cat called Tardar Sauce, whose photos spread in 2012. Smudge's dinner-table picture became half of "Woman Yelling at a Cat" in 2019. You can read more about them in the guide on the home page.

Our cats are new cartoon drawings made in tribute to those memes. They're parodies, and the game isn't connected with the real animals, their families or anyone who owns rights in those images.

What's in the design, and what's left out

A lot of the design work on a small game is deciding what not to add. Here's what we chose to leave out, and why.

These choices also make the game a little unusual. Most arcade games are built around the threat of losing. This one is built around the pleasure of hitting something, and it treats your mistakes as another joke.

How the game runs in your browser

Pookutti Game is built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the standard languages of the web, and draws its graphics on an HTML canvas. Sound is played through the browser's Web Audio feature, which can start clips with very little delay. That's important for a game where a shot should feel immediate.

A few details may interest curious players:

• One tall frame. The game is drawn in a 9:16 shape, like a phone held upright. It scales to fit your screen while keeping that shape.
• Same game on every device. Positions are worked out in a fixed internal space, so a line through a cat means the same thing on a small phone and a large monitor.
• Full screen on request. Browsers only allow a page to go full screen after you tap, which is why you press Play first. Where a browser doesn't allow full screen, the game fills the window instead.
• Automatic pause. The game stops when it loses focus, so a phone call won't leave a cat shouting in your pocket.
• Local best score. Your record is kept in your browser's local storage, on your own device.

Who the game is for

It's made for older teens and adults who enjoy silly humour, memes and quick games. It isn't made for children. The whole premise is crude, and the Malayalam clips and the phrases on the menu include rude slang. If you're playing around other people, particularly children or colleagues, you may want to keep the volume down.

The game is easy to learn and has no time pressure, so people who don't normally play games can still enjoy it. It uses one finger and no fast sequences of buttons. On the other hand, it depends on sight and on aiming with a pointer or touch, so it won't suit everyone. We're always interested in hearing how it could be easier to use.

Playing responsibly

Quick games can eat up more time than you intend. A few sensible habits can help:

• Give your eyes regular breaks. A common suggestion is the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, look at something about 20 feet away for 20 seconds.
• Stop if your thumb, hand or wrist starts to ache, and rest before you play again.
• Avoid playing right before you need to sleep, however fitting it may seem for a game set in bed.
• Keep the volume at a comfortable level, especially with earphones.
• Never play while walking in traffic or driving.

Advertising and costs

The game is free to play. Free websites have running costs, so pages on the site may show advertising. Advertising partners may use cookies or similar technology, as described in the privacy policy. Paying isn't required for anything in the game, and adverts don't affect your score.

Created by A Boy Trying To Make You Laugh

That line sums up the whole project. Pookutti Game has no bigger aim than giving you a laugh during a spare moment. If a screaming cartoon dog firing a laser from his bed has brightened your day a little, it has done its job.

Send us your feedback

Small games get better when players speak up. If you've found a bug, had trouble on a particular phone or browser, or thought of a joke that deserves a place in the game, please email [email protected]. Telling us your device and browser makes a problem much easier to track down.

Why there's only one cat at a time

It would be easy to fill the screen with cats. We went the other way, for three reasons. The first is sound. Every cat has a voice clip, and only one clip at a time can be clearly heard and enjoyed. Five cats shouting at once would just be noise.

The second is attention. With one target, you always know what to do next, and you've got time to notice the jokes in the faces. The third is fairness. When you miss, you know it was your aim and not a crowd of distractions. Every shot is a small, clear duel between you and one angry cat.

Why make it a browser game?

App stores are crowded, and installing a game asks for more commitment than a joke deserves. A browser game takes a link and a tap, which suits something you'd send to a friend in a chat. It starts in seconds, doesn't take up storage on your phone and works on nearly any modern device.

There are downsides. Browsers limit some features, such as full screen on iPhone, and connection speed affects the first load. But for a small game built around a shared laugh, the short journey from link to first shot matters more than anything else. If someone has to install something before they can see the joke, most of them won't bother.

A short timeline

A quick glossary

If you're new to memes or arcade games, these terms appear across this site.

• Arcade game: a game built around short rounds, quick reactions and high scores, named after the coin-operated machines where the style became popular.
• Best score: the highest score saved in your browser on this device.
• Browser game: a game that runs inside a web browser without being installed.
• Endless game: a game with no final level, which you can keep playing for as long as you want.
• Hang time: our name for the middle of a cat's visit, when it stays near the centre of the room.
• Meme: an idea, image or joke that spreads online as people copy and change it.
• Parody: a comic imitation of something well known.

Rights and removal requests

We respect the people and pets behind these memes. The drawings in the game are new, but the characters are clearly inspired by famous images, and the voice clips come from other people's work. They remain the property of their owners, and using them here is not a claim of ownership.

If you own or represent anything used in the game and you'd like it changed, credited or removed, please email us at [email protected]. Tell us which character or clip you mean and how to reach you, and we'll look into it.

What makes a good joke game

A joke can be enough to get someone to try a game, but it isn't enough to keep them playing. We tried to follow a few rules. The action needs to feel good even with the sound off. The joke should be clear from a single screenshot, because that's how most people will discover it. And the game shouldn't waste anybody's time, because a joke that takes too long to reach stops being funny.

Whether we've managed that is up to you. If the sight of a screaming Pookutti firing a laser from under a blanket made you smile, then the game has done what it set out to do.

Frequently asked questions about the game