‘Rat King’ Explores Two Dungeons With One Set of Instructions

Rat King wants you to steer a pair of rodents by way of totally different harmful dungeons utilizing the identical motion instructions.

It didn’t appear too sophisticated at first. Only a cute little rat chilling in the midst of a grey dungeon ground. Properly, two of them, as you’ll be controlling a rat on each side of the display screen, every standing in their very own room within the dungeon. Not solely this, however there have been a number of worms crawling round that appeared to imply me hurt. If I ran into them first, although, all was effectively. Inputting the proper instructions to guarantee that neither rat blundered into an enemy on the opposite display screen whereas I attempted to dodge a foe was the place this recreation rapidly received troublesome.

Additional issues come within the type of easy previous partitions. Every room has a barely totally different wall format. These make it troublesome to freely evade enemies on each side of the room on the similar time, so you actually need to consider your path to maintain each rats protected. You CAN simply bump right into a wall so as to preserve one rat in place whilst you rigorously navigate with the opposite, however each time you blunder right into a barrier you start to summon new enemies into the room with you. Just a few careless nudges and also you’ll discover that you just created two harmful creatures whereas making an attempt to kill considered one of them. Additionally, watching two screens to plan your path is difficult by itself and sometimes resulted in me making some deadly blunders simply from how onerous it was to separate my consideration.

Rat King is cute and so easy to choose up and play that you just’ll be kicking your self over how rapidly you handle to die if you’re careless. In the event you can keep sharp and juggle each screens (which does get simpler when you begin unlocking some useful upgrades) then this recreation is a superb psychological exercise.

Rat King is on the market now (for no matter you want to pay for it) on itch.io.

About The Creator

Joel Couture

Joel has been overlaying indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games could be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.