Cat toys for chasing, pouncing and kicking. Most of the range is KONG, with teaser wands, kickers, plush toys and refillable catnip toys, alongside a laser toy from Good Girl, bubble toys from Bubble Cat, a plastic play unit from Ancol and a kicker from Rosewood. It is a small range and a cheap one, the sort of thing you add to an order rather than plan a shop around.
Toys your cat uses alone, and toys that need you on the other end
This matters more than the brand. Wand and teaser toys only work while you are holding them. The KONG Cat Feather Teaser and the Good Girl Laser Mouse Cat Toy are both this sort. Ten or fifteen minutes of proper play, then put them away, because a wand left on the floor stops being interesting within a week.
Solo toys are the ones a cat works at on its own. Kickers like the Rosewood Moody Moggy Rainbow Cat Kicker are sized to be grabbed with the front paws and kicked with the back feet, which is the same motion a cat uses on prey. The KONG Cat Puzzlements Hideaway Cat Toy is made to be worked at rather than chased, and the Ancol Acticat Plastic Playground sits on the floor and gets batted at. If your cat is on its own all day, buy from this group first.
If you are buying one thing
Get the Good Girl Laser Mouse Cat Toy. It is the one that works on a cat that is bored indoors and will not chase a wand, and it costs less than most of the plush toys here. One thing worth doing: finish every session by letting the cat actually catch something, a cat treat or a toy dropped on the floor. A chase that never ends in a catch leaves some cats wound up rather than settled.
Catnip does nothing for a good number of cats
The response to catnip is inherited, so it is not a case of finding the right brand. Some cats simply do not react, and kittens usually show no interest until they are several months old. If you have never tried it, a tub of loose nip is the cheapest way to find out where your cat stands. Sprinkle a pinch on a scratching post or into a refillable toy rather than buying a nip-filled toy outright, and if it gets ignored, buy a kicker or a wand instead rather than spending again on nip.
When a toy is the wrong purchase
A cat shredding the sofa arm does not need a toy. It needs something it is allowed to scratch, which is a post or a tree rather than anything on this page. Those are in cat trees and scratchers.
And a cat that has gone quiet, or plays noticeably less than it did a few months ago, is worth a word with your vet before it is worth a new toy. Cats tend to show pain by doing less rather than by limping, so a drop in play is worth mentioning at the surgery.
The rest of the range for cats is in cat products.