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Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge

2009

Should you play it?

Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores.

What works

  • Highly creative puzzle gameplay
  • Low price with good value
  • Emotional and escapist appeal
  • Community and multiplayer content
  • Challenging physics-based puzzles

Things to keep in mind

  • Glitchy physics and crashes
  • Simple graphics and sound
  • Limited story depth
  • Lack of leadership or social intimacy
  • Some repetitive or frustrating moments

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Serious Sam Double D XXL

  • Bad Rats Show

  • Stick It to the Stickman

  • Nobody Saves the World

  • Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

  • Party Hard 2

Less violent

Games that feels like Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge but with less combat and destruction

  • CATO: Buttered Cat

  • Lab Rat

  • DYO

  • Monkey GO Happy

  • Fish Fillets 2

  • Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge but with less of a community feel

  • Machick 2

  • Lucy Dreaming

  • Ugly

  • Psychopomp GOLD

  • Magrunner: Dark Pulse

  • Prison Run and Gun

Less social

Games that feels like Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Turbo Kid

  • Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG

  • Kaelaverse: Pemascape

  • PAPERHEAD EP.0

  • Wasteland Bites

  • 77p egg: Eggwife

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Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026