'Rat King' Explores Two Dungeons With One Set of Commands

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Rat King wants you to steer a pair of rodents by way of completely 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. Effectively, two of them, as you can be controlling a rat on either side of the display screen, every standing in their very own room within the dungeon. Not solely this, however there have been just a few worms crawling round that appeared to imply me hurt. If I ran into them first, although, all was properly. Inputting the proper instructions to ensure 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 bought troublesome.

Additional issues come within the type of easy outdated partitions. Every room has a barely completely different wall format. These make it troublesome to freely evade enemies on either side of the room on the similar time, so you really want to consider your path to maintain each rats protected. You CAN simply bump right into a wall in an effort to hold one rat in place whilst you fastidiously navigate with the opposite, however each time you blunder right into a barrier you start to summon new enemies into the room with you. A number of careless nudges and also you’ll discover that you simply created two harmful creatures whereas attempting to kill certainly one of them. Additionally, watching two screens to plan your path is difficult by itself and infrequently 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 select up and play that you simply’ll be kicking your self over how rapidly you handle to die whenever you’re careless. When 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 out there now (for no matter you want to pay for it) on itch.io.

About The Creator Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for numerous 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 might be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.