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Kill A Million Rats

A base-building, Roguelike Action/Turn-based Strategy (RATS) game, in a forest invaded by a million Rats. As the powerful Spirit of Vengeance, you must save the adorable Villagers! Explore a randomly generated world, expand your village, and exterminate the Rats!

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Developer
Nerdook Productions
Publisher
Surefire.Games
Release
January 15, 2025
1 year and 199 days ago
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Very Positive77 reviews89.6%

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About the Game

The Rats are invading the forest, and you are the SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE! Your objective is simple: EXPLORE the valley, EXPLOIT its resources, EXPAND your village, and EXTERMINATE the endless horde of Rats!

You are a powerful Spirit of Vengeance, capable of cutting down thousands of Rats with your magical powers. But you cannot do this alone: you will need to harvest resources to construct buildings and recruit a variety of allies, in order to defeat the enemy and achieve victory!

Explore a randomly generated world! Each time you start a new game, you will discover a unique combination of powers, resources, enemies, buildings and allies. Build up your village then protect the villagers from the forces of the mighty Rat King! The rogue-lite nature of the game ensures that your options and challenges are always interesting and constantly evolving.

Save the innocent animals of the forest and rally them to your cause! Adorable bunnies, mice, cats, dogs, pigs, stags, bears, monkeys, birds and more: each and every one is lovingly hand-drawn and brought to life by Nerdook in his signature cute & colorful style.

  • An action-packed blend of the base-building and strategy genres.

  • A procedurally-generated world to explore in each game.

  • A lot of Rats to kill in many satisfying ways. Seriously, there are a lot of Rats.

  • Dozens of powers to choose from: upgrade each one of them to kill even more Rats!

  • Intuitive controls, supporting keyboard, mouse, or controller: it's your choice!

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