Rat Prison

Rat Prison is a 2D retro pixel side scrolling adventure game with an unusual premise and an unusual interface. You're a guard in a dungeon and you have to juggle keeping the lights on, checking on the prisoners, and not being killed by rats. It's certainly an interesting premise for the game but the implementation is lacking. You have to use the mouse to play (well, just the mouse wheel, no other functions of the mouse do anything in the game, which is a bizarre and unfun decision), and the keyboard to move left and right. If that sounds like an awkward interface, well, it is. They chose to use obsolete retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. An important note: Piece of Voxel are known asset flippers and have previously taken other developers work and put it on Steam in an attempt to scam gamers into buying asset flips. An example of Piece of Voxel doing this is Hoples, which is really "[url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/pixel-adventure-1-155360]Pixel Adventure 1[/url]", written by the actual developers, Pixel Frog. Also, Top Truck Driver, which is really "[url=https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/5820/hill-racing-template-gms1-2]Hill Racing Template[/url]", developed by Janko Knez. While this game is unlikely to be an asset flip based on the unique premise and interface, prospective buyers might be interested to know about the kinds of harm the publisher has done to the industry in the past. Specifically, however, Rat Prison is unrecommendable due to the significant technical, visual and interface deficiencies.