Bad Rats
| Bad Rats: The Rats' Revenge | |
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| Developer(s) | Invent4 Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Invent4 Entertainment |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Bad Rats: The Rats' Revenge is a puzzle video game developed and published by Invent4 Entertainment. It was released for Microsoft Windows on 20 July 2009. In May 2010, the game was acquired by Strategy First. A sequel, Bad Rats Show, was released exactly seven years later, on 20 July 2016.
Reception
Bad Rats did not receive any critical reviews aggregated on Metacritic,[1] and, according to Kotaku, is a "putridly awkward", "nearly universally reviled" game.[2] However, its appearance on the Steam marketplace in 2009, at a time when that platform was relatively tightly curated for quality, caused it to stand out as an oddity. It attracted a community of followers still active in 2015, six years after its release.
Bad Rats received a majority of positive user reviews, possibly beginning the trend of users jokingly giving over-the-top positive reviews to bad games, and became a popular gift to troll other players with.[2] Rock, Paper, Shotgun described it as "the gaming equivalent of neckties with kooky prints or fart-scented soap".[3]
Sequel
A sequel, Bad Rats Show, was released on 20 July 2016.[3]
External links
References
- ↑ "Bad Rats: The Rats Revenge Critic Reviews for PC". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- 1 2 Grayson, Nathan (20 May 2015). "Six Years Later, Bad Rats Is Still Known As Steam's Shittiest Game". Kotaku. Gawker Media. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- 1 2 O'Connor, Alice (20 July 2016). "Send In The Clowns: Bad Rats 2 Released". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved 24 July 2016.