Bad Rats
| Bad Rats: The Rats' Revenge | |
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| Developer(s) | Invent4 Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Strategy First |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Bad Rats: The Rats' Revenge is a 2009 physics puzzle video game for Windows PCs, developed by Invent4 Entertainment and published by Strategy First. The object of the game is to solve physics-based puzzles using objects and rats to take revenge on cats, usually by activation of some sort of button or trigger. It is known for its popularity, despite or perhaps because of its mediocre quality, among users of the Steam game distribution platform.
Gameplay
The goal of each stage is to use the rats and other objects to push a ball into or activate an object that kills the cat such as a microwave oven, chainsaw, or safe. While the objects move in two-dimensional space, the game environment is actually 3D, and as a result, objects can move towards or away from the player. The player must first place the objects and has a time limit while doing so. Once one has finished placing the level's objects, he can click the play button to activate it. When the puzzle has been successfully completed, the player is scored based on objects used as well as the time taken to complete the puzzle.
Reception
The game did not receive professional reviews aggregated on Metacritic or GameRankings, and, according to Kotaku, is a "putridly awkward", "nearly universally reviled" game.[1] However, its appearance on the Steam marketplace in 2009, at a time when that platform was relatively tightly curated for quality, caused it to stand out as an oddity. It attracted a community of followers still active in 2015, six years after its release. Bad Rats received a majority of positive user reviews, possibly beginning the Steam trend of users jokingly giving over-the-top positive reviews to bad games, and became a popular gift to troll other players with.[1]
External links
References
- 1 2 Grayson, Nathan (20 May 2015). "Six Years Later, Bad Rats Is Still Known As Steam's Shittiest Game". Kotaku. Retrieved 21 May 2015.