Catherine (キャサリン Kyasarin?) is a puzzle-platformer psychological horror adventure video game developed by Atlus Persona Team and published by Atlus for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is Atlus' first internally developed game for seventh-generation consoles in high definition, and is described as an "adult-oriented" title by the game's character designer, Shigenori Soejima.[8] The cinematic portion of the game is handled by Studio 4°C.[9] The game was released in Japan on February 17, 2011, and in North America on July 26, 2011.[3] Deep Silver released the game in Europe on February 10, 2012.[4] It was also released in Australia on February 23, 2012. Catherine was later released as a full downloadable game for the PlayStation Store in February 2012 and came out on the Games on Demand service for the Xbox 360 in April 2012.
