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Press release:
Indie dev Aran Koning (one part of Dutch indie collective Sokpop, the team behind Stacklands, Grail and Grunn) has announced the release date for his mega viral asymmetrical co-op horror comedy ‘RAT GAME’.

Rat Game blew up big time when Aran announced it earlier this year, with 5M views on Twitter alone. You play either a pack of rats trying to sabotage a restaurant, or the Chef determined to stop them.1 Chef vs 2-8 Rat. (Or, one robo Chef vs 2-8 rat. Aran has added a robot chef. It’s really scary.)

Rat Game will launch on PC on October 30th. You can check out the release date announcement trailer below.

About the game

Chef has been trying to exterminate the rats, leaving them no choice but to ruin his restaurant. Let the battle begin!

The Rats work as a team, nibbling through wires, clogging toilets, hacking the staff computer, and doing anything they can to get the place shut down. The Chef tries to exterminate them, listening for the tell-tale sound of scrabbling claws so he can catch them with his bare hands and chuck them in a cage. Their battleground is The Restaurant, a warren full of shortcuts and hidden scurryways. There may be an actual gun somewhere in the mix. Don’t worry about it.

Rat Game is an asymmetrical comedy horror with dynamic sound design, a detailed map, and squeaky proximity chat. Last one standing wins!

Features:

Asymmetrical co-op

1 Chef vs 2-8 rats

Play against a human or a robot controlled Chef

Proximity chat

Dynamic soundtrack

Rats can come back from the dead (but how??)

Sprawling interconnected map with many secrets

Rats

About the Developers:

Aran Koning is an indie game developer based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. As part of indie game collective Sokpop he’s worked on over ONE HUNDRED video games (!!), including Stacklands and Simmiland. He is now making the co-op comedy horror Rat Game.

Alexander van der Kruijf is part of Tumult Kollektiv, a collective of sound designers and musicians based in Berlin. Alex is doing the sound design and dynamic music for Rat Game.