Little Kitty, Big City: How to get Shinies

It's OK to get distracted by something shiny this time.

The cat looking at Shinies in Little Kitty, Big City.
Screenshot by Dot Esports

Getting home is no easy task in Little Kitty, Big City, and a crucial part of this journey is collecting Shinies so you can get the Crow to help you. Shinies are quite small and tricky to find, which means you may need help figuring out how to get them.

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There’s a lot to do around the city, which makes it easy to be lost when trying to figure out where to start finding Shinies. You need to gather lots of them as quickly as you can to deliver them back to the Crow, so here’s how to get Shinies in Little Kitty, Big City.

How to get Shinies in Little Kitty, Big City

The cat looking at multiple Shinies next to a dumpster in Little Kitty, Big City.
Dumpsters contain lots of them. Screenshot by Dot Esports

You can get Shinies in Little Kitty, Big City in many different ways as you explore the world. There isn’t one best way to collect them, although dumpsters are always a very reliable option as they tend to drop more than one, while most other locations have just one available to collect at a time.

All of the ways I’ve found Shinies in Little Kitty, Big City so far are as follows:

  • Dumpster diving.
  • Lying on the ground.
  • Sitting on top of cars.
  • Opening registers.
  • Digging in recycling cans.
  • In hidden corners.
  • Sitting on top of roofs.
  • Under moveable items like cones.
  • In vents.
  • On top of shelves.
  • Hidden in pipes.
  • Sitting at the end of hard-to-reach parkour spots.
A cat look for Shinies in a cash register in Little Kitty, Big City.
Become a true cat burglar. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Overall, the best way to collect Shinies in Little Kitty, Big City is simply to go around exploring new areas. You’ll also unlock tons of Catchievements and hats along the way, so all of your hard work earns you more than just Shinies for the Crow in the end.

The Crow needs a total of 25 Shinies to help you out early on, so just keep prowling around the city until you collect enough to bring back to them. There are even more Shinies to be found after this too, so the hunt never really ends.

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Kacee Fay
Staff Writer at Dot Esports covering new releases and a wide array of topics including Minecraft, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Phasmophobia, general gaming, streaming, and more. She has been avidly writing and gaming her whole life and now spends her time combining the two. Kacee graduated from San Diego State University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Certificate in Creative Editing and Publishing. She then joined Dot Esports as a Freelance Writer in 2022 before transitioning to a Staff Writer in 2023. In her spare time, she enjoys buying more books than she can read, gaming alone or with friends, drinking too much tea, attending concerts, fangirling over movies and television, listening to music, and spending time with her family, friends, and pets, who are the most important parts of her world.