
A puzzling adventure where you abuse the Rules set by your Rat captors! 📜🐀 Manipulate enemies and environments with the commanding power of Rules to escape!
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For the crime of cheese theft, Piper the mouse has been imprisoned in the highest tower of the Rats' castle. These Rats wield the power of "Rules", mighty scrolls that grant the holder commanding power.
Piper 'borrows' a Rules Scroll, escaping their cell and ready to face the Castle's many traps and puzzles. The descent will be tricky, but with the power of Rules, perhaps Piper can just squeak through! 🐁💨
Rules grant you power over your environment and enemies. Abuse the heck out of this to solve puzzles! 🧩 Grab scrolls to unlock new Rule powers! Combine different Rules to discover hidden interactions! Rats always follow the Rules... now go and mess with them!! 🐀
Elite Rat architects have crafted 30+ rooms of insidious puzzles. 🏰 Solve them to escape, and grab all the cheese you can along the way! Unlock the latest Mouse Fashions by completing your cheese collection! 🧥
No attacks? No problem! Use your wits to overcome bosses by manipulating their arena with Rules! Solve puzzles on the fly in a deadly game of rat and mouse! 💥
Rules & Rodents is a text-free game where communication is visual. We hope people of all languages will enjoy it!
Originally created for and voted #1 in the Unity Create with Code 2 Game Jam, Gravy Crew is delighted to present this full, expanded version of Rules & Rodents! 📜🐀
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A generally pleasant sokoban-like that takes the gimmick of rules and runs wild with it, with each floor having a theme that really tests your knowledge on what you have to do in order to get the job done. Hoping for potential updates or a sequel in the future where we can see these puzzle elements extended further. (where's my ice slizer icey, don't swindle me)
Super amazing game, really love the premise and how creatively levels are made. I'm honestly surprised a puzzle game this fun isn't bigger, I hope this game gets the credit it deserves someday. I will say that although I like the simple aesthetic and the "show dont tell" approach to explaining things, the 4 cheese shows up so rarely and honestly I have no idea what triggers it. I thought, based on the first appearance, that it appears if you get 4 rats on the same tile. But the next time I see the 4 cheese (5-4 I think?) I got 4 rats on the same tile and nothing. I got 5 rats on the same tile too, just to be certain. I moved this pile of rats around to no luck, so I am short 1 cheese of completing the game and have no clue what I'm doing wrong. Otherwise, I think this game's biggest strength is how whenever I fail, I feel like it's totally my fault because the mechanics are so well explained and without fringe cases.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Arabic*, Bulgarian*, Czech*, Danish*, Dutch*, Finnish*, Greek* +91 more
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A short but very cute game. Charming graphics, neat music, and puzzles ranging from easy to mildly difficult. Thank you smiser for introducing me to this game, I can't wait to see more from this studio :3
Very cute short puzzle game. Great design, sound, music, and difficulty curve. Very satisfying to figure out some of the tougher cheeses. Keytar rat was my favorite boss fight; Cute as hell and awesome music.
cute puzzle game with a charming style, that's not too tough or exceptionally long but still manages some great and clever moments of reasoning along the way. looks a little rough on steam deck (assumedly it's sized for 1080p, so it's being scaled down to 720p and suffering slightly for it) but otherwise a good game to pick up and play on there (if you've got reasonably sharp eyes, i suppose, lol). i hope the sales figures have been enough to spare us all from more original fart collection jokes this year
挺有意思的解谜游戏,还是比较推荐的。 唯一缺点就是有一种复古又精神污染的欢乐谷效应。
Very clever puzzle game. Squeak.
Rat
Fun little puzzle game. Some levels were a bit more challenging than others. The bosses were a bit scary; they rattled me!
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