Nine Lives on Knickerbocker

DOWNLOAD FOR MAC 18 GB  //  FREE

BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN  //  AFTER DARK

KNCKRBCKR CAPITAL is buying Bushwick.

THE CATS AREN'T FOR SALE.

Nine Lives on Knickerbocker is a first-person shooter set on the streets of Bushwick at night. A landlord outfit called KNCKRBCKR CAPITAL has put a crew on every block, and the bodega cats are next. You have a golden Desert Eagle, seven rounds, and nine lives.

Take out a block's whole crew and the block is yours. Clear every block in a hood and it pays out a special gun. It's loud, it's gold-plated, and it has opinions about rent.

The black bodega cat in mirrored shades and a gold chain, holding two golden Desert Eagles

OVERHEARD ON KNICKERBOCKER

You ain't from here. You're from a podcast.

Nice gold gun. What are you, a rapper or a landlord?

Hey, Nine Lives! Let's see if we can make it eight.

Screenshots

STRAIGHT OUT OF THE ENGINE  //  NO BULLSHOTS

Rated M for Meow

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DOWNLOAD FOR MAC 18 GB  //  ZIP  //  FREE
MAC
Apple silicon (M1 or newer)
MACOS
14 Sonoma or newer
DISK SPACE
18 GB, plus 18 GB more while it unzips
BUILT ON
An M4 Pro MacBook Pro

FIRST LAUNCH

  1. Unzip it and drag NINE LIVES into Applications.
  2. Open it. The game isn't notarized by Apple yet, so macOS says it can't check it for malware. Click Done.
  3. Open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You only do this once.

If macOS says the app is damaged, run this in Terminal, then open it again: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/NINE LIVES.app"

CONTROLS

Move
WASD
Shoot
CLICK
Run
SHIFT
Guns
12345
Map
TAB
Pause
ESC