Rattenkönig follows a rat that’s endlessly linked to a different, barely extra deceased and decaying rat. Platforming with a corpse tied to you ain’t straightforward.
CONTENT WARNING – DEATH, GORE, GRIEF
You play as a rat whose tail is tied to its sibling’s corpse. Amidst flashbacks to your childhood whenever you have been born, you need to make your approach by means of a factory-like setting. Not a super place to have a lifeless physique tied to you, as it’s going to consistently catch on issues, drag you down as you leap, and get in the way in which as you attempt to discover. You don’t have many choices to care for it, as all you are able to do is transfer, leap, and provides your sibling a yank together with your tail. With these easy interactions, you’ll should work by means of some slim tunnels and throughout lethal machines in an effort 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 of the state of affairs. It’s past miserable to consider having to hold this fixed reminder of a cherished one’s loss of life, and getting mad on the physique felt extremely darkish and bleak. It strengthened the disappointment of the state of affairs as I handled this assorted emotions, and all whereas I marched ahead with out actually figuring out what I used to be doing. Would the dwelling rat be feeling the identical factor, marching ahead with out figuring out 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 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 on the market now (for no matter you want to pay for it) on itch.io.
