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Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge

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.

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Developer
Invent4 Entertainment
Publisher
Strategy First
Release
July 20, 2009
17 years and 17 days ago
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Mostly Positive14,836 reviews79.0%

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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. Revel in your success as the cat meets a violent demise in any number of humorous ways at the hands of Bad Rats.
  • Comic cartoon violence and cartoon blood
  • Realistic physics simulation
  • 10 Specialist Rats, anxious for revenge
  • 11 different and bloody deaths for cats
  • 10 other functional objects to help you
  • 44 Maps, from easy to very hard
  • Internet and local records
  • Original, cartoon styled characters
  • Challenge your creativity, intelligence and logic
  • Unlock all the Steam Achievements
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