‘Rattenkönig’ Makes You Work Collectively With a Corpse

Rattenkönig follows a rat that’s eternally linked to a different, barely extra deceased and decaying rat. Platforming with a corpse tied to you ain’t simple.

CONTENT WARNING – DEATH, GORE, GRIEF

You play as a rat whose tail is tied to its sibling’s corpse. Amidst flashbacks to your childhood once you had been born, you need to make your means by means of a factory-like setting. Not a great place to have a useless physique tied to you, as it’ll consistently catch on issues, drag you down as you soar, and get in the way in which as you attempt to discover. You don’t have many choices to deal with it, as all you are able to do is transfer, soar, and provides your sibling a yank together with your tail. With these easy interactions, you’ll need to work by means of some slim tunnels and throughout lethal machines with a purpose to attain the top.

It’s fairly tough to get round whereas tied down like this. You’ll usually end up cursing this unnamed physique, which stirred up some emotions of guilt as I thought-about the scenario. It’s past miserable to consider having to hold this fixed reminder of a liked one’s demise, and getting mad on the physique felt extremely darkish and bleak. It strengthened the disappointment of the scenario as I handled this various emotions, and all whereas I marched ahead with out actually understanding what I used to be doing. Would the dwelling rat be feeling the identical factor, marching ahead with out understanding what to do? You’ll undergo many emotions as this marches towards its bleak conclusion.

Rattenkönig offers you some tough puzzle conditions to work by means of, and I’ve to confess, lugging a physique does add some surprising dimensions to fixing leaping challenges. It’s the myriad feelings I felt whereas enjoying it that may hold haunting me for a while, although.



Rattenkönig is out there now (for no matter you want to pay for it) on itch.io.

Joel Couture

Joel has been masking 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 consistently looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games might be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.