Rattenkönig follows a rat that’s endlessly related to a different, barely extra deceased and decaying rat. Platforming with a corpse tied to you ain’t simple.
CONTENT WARNING – DEATH, GORE, GRIEF
You play as a rat whose tail is tied to its sibling’s corpse. Amidst flashbacks to your childhood while you had been born, you need to make your method by way of a factory-like setting. Not a really perfect place to have a useless physique tied to you, as it would continually catch on issues, drag you down as you leap, and get in the best way as you attempt to discover. You don’t have many choices to deal with it, as all you are able to do is transfer, leap, and provides your sibling a yank together with your tail. With these easy interactions, you’ll must work by way of some slim tunnels and throughout lethal machines so as to attain the top.
It’s fairly tough to get round whereas tied down like this. You’ll typically end up cursing this unnamed physique, which stirred up some emotions of guilt as I thought of the state of affairs. It’s past miserable to consider having to hold this fixed reminder of a liked one’s loss of life, and getting mad on the physique felt extremely darkish and bleak. It strengthened the unhappiness of the state of affairs as I handled this diverse emotions, and all whereas I marched ahead with out actually figuring out what I used to be doing. Would the residing rat be feeling the identical factor, marching ahead with out figuring out what to do? You’ll undergo many emotions as this marches towards its bleak conclusion.
Rattenkönig offers you some tough puzzle conditions to work by way of, and I’ve to confess, lugging a physique does add some sudden dimensions to fixing leaping challenges. It’s the myriad feelings I felt whereas enjoying it that may hold haunting me for a while, although.
Rattenkönig is out there now (for no matter you want to pay for it) on itch.io.