Flat strategy game War Rats: The Rat Em Up is delicious trash
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
War Rats is sort of trash, but I love it all the same. Oh, you’re giving me a ‘ratvolver’ and letting me build ‘turrats’ and there’s a dramatic close-up of swinging rat balls in the intro montage for each stage? Yeah, go on then. It’s got the vibes of something made by the guy you knew in secondary school who exclusively drew pictures of cartoon dicks but, like, they were undeniably really good dicks. Absolute cock prodigy, that guy. Pablo Dickasso.
Anyway, I’m probably making it sound like there’s a serious dick to rat ratio here but it’s really just those balls. There are some great rat animations though. It’s a 2D strategy tug-of-war where you push through stages summoning troops and building structures, and when you do, you’re treated to a bunch of rats with hammers piling up construction barriers. When enemy rats fall, either to your own guns or your army of Ratineeers, gangs of regular-sized rats come to nibble on their corpses. They also say things like “Tell my wife…squeak”.
Also I am 95% sure your Ratvolver fires legally distinct warpstone. They saw me coming, I tell you.
