‘Rattenkönig’ Makes You Work Collectively With a Corpse

Rattenkönig follows a rat that’s endlessly related 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 have been born, it’s important to make your manner by means of a factory-like setting. Not a great place to have a useless physique tied to you, as it’s going to continually catch on issues, drag you down as you soar, and get in the best way as you attempt to discover. You don’t have many choices to handle it, as all you are able to do is transfer, soar, and provides your sibling a yank along with your tail. With these easy interactions, you’ll need to work by means of some slim tunnels and throughout lethal machines to be able to attain the top.

It’s fairly tough to get round whereas tied down like this. You’ll typically 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 loss of life, and getting mad on the physique felt extremely darkish and bleak. It strengthened the unhappiness of the scenario as I handled this diverse emotions, and all whereas I marched ahead with out actually realizing what I used to be doing. Would the dwelling rat be feeling the identical factor, marching ahead with out realizing what to do? You’ll undergo many emotions as this marches towards its bleak conclusion.

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



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

Joel Couture

Joel has been masking 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 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.