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A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1

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58%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, music
82% User Score Based on 22 reviews

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About A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1

A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 is a single player casual platformer game. It was developed by The Dreamerians and was released on April 3, 2026. It received positive reviews from players.

Meet Mat, a young rat whose simple life in an abandoned wine cellar with his best friend, Toby, is turned upside down when he falls head over tail in love with Nat, a clever house mouse who is kept as a pet by one of the Giants on the upper floors of the building. Bitten by the love bug, Mat sets out on a perilous journey to become a Scavenger, just so he can sneak up and secretly visit his b…

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82%Audience ScoreBased on 22 reviews
story4 positive mentions
music2 negative mentions
  • The game features charming and beautiful graphics with well-done voice acting, creating an engaging world and memorable characters.
  • Gameplay is fun and accessible, with enjoyable platforming, simple puzzles, and a strong emphasis on story and exploration.
  • The game offers a relaxing, cozy experience suitable for players who enjoy narrative-driven platformers and family-friendly content.
  • Camera controls and movement can be frustrating due to awkward angles, unresponsiveness, and occasional jankiness in platforming sections.
  • Cutscenes sometimes suffer from low visual quality, including blur and artifacting, detracting from the overall presentation.
  • The game is relatively short with some pacing issues, and the decision to release it in seasons raises concerns about value and completeness.

  • story

    15 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    27% positive mentions, 53% neutral mentions, 20% negative mentions

    The story is generally appreciated for its charming characters, humor, and light sense of mystery, delivering a simple yet engaging narrative with moments of romance and adventure. While some players found parts of the gameplay serving as filler that padded the story, others enjoyed the fresh perspective, decent voice acting, and world design that kept the experience lively and non-repetitive. Overall, it’s a fun, straightforward story that suits fans of lighthearted, story-driven games with a quirky rat-themed twist.

    • “The story has this fun sense of adventure that left me constantly eager to see what comes next.”
    • “A Rat's Quest is about a 6-hour long ratventure with cute graphics, romance, comedic moments, airheaded main character, and a somewhat mysterious story.”
    • “I also love how this game makes use of the limited space it takes place in, allowing the world of the rats to feel small enough for the story and lived in, whilst also constantly changing things up in the environment so that you always navigate these familiar areas through new routes; it never feels repetitive.”
    • “Frankly, I find it just frustrating and 'filler' gameplay, particularly if it's only there to serve a minor plot point to progress the story, just padding out playtime basically.”
    • “The story isn't deep but it does the job, and the mouse is very cute.”
    • “The story isn't anything revolutionary but it's a decent one with some good voice acting and moments.”

  • gameplay

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 12% neutral mentions, 38% negative mentions

    The gameplay receives mixed feedback, with some praising its fun and challenging elements and strong world-building, while others find it frustrating, lifeless, or filled with unnecessary filler content. Technical issues like control and camera struggles, as well as subpar cutscene quality, also impact the experience. Overall, the core mechanics show promise but could benefit from further refinement.

    • “I'm so impressed by the world building and gameplay.”
    • “Nice story, simple but sometimes still challenging gameplay, a few funny jokes.”
    • “The gameplay is great!”
    • “Frankly, I find it just frustrating and 'filler' gameplay, particularly if it's only there to serve a minor plot point to progress the story, just padding out playtime basically.”
    • “I started the game and you are taken through some simple opening platforming tasks like any tutorial section at the start of a game; however, this was where I began to seriously doubt the gameplay aspects of the title.”
    • “I do really hope that the devs are given time to continue to work on the core mechanics of the game to give the platforming more feeling of involvement rather than the lifeless feeling it has now.”

  • graphics

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    40% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 40% negative mentions

    The game features charming and visually appealing graphics during gameplay, especially with maxed-out settings, but its cutscenes suffer from low resolution and noticeable artifacting, particularly on 4K displays. Despite modest visual quality, the game requires a surprisingly large storage size compared to similar photorealistic titles.

    • “The graphics are charming.”
    • “In gameplay itself it looks good graphically with everything maxed out, cut scenes/videos look like they're upscaled from 720p, have heavy ghosting and artifacting, but somehow use more VRAM than gameplay sections themselves do.”
    • “Graphics are fine - cutscenes are blurry though, not sure if this was intentional or not?”
    • “For some reason the game needs 50GB storage which is crazy considering the game's visuals and compared to other photoreal games like Pragmata which only needs 34GB.”

  • humor

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor is generally light and cute, featuring a few funny jokes that add charm, though its appeal may vary among players. Overall, it provides a simple but occasionally amusing experience.

    • “A really funny and cute game.”
    • “Pretty easy but very funny.”
    • “Nice story, simple but sometimes still challenging gameplay, a few funny jokes.”

  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The music is generally decent with an alright soundtrack and audio quality, though some users feel that certain themes, like the main villain's, sound oddly out of place and don't match the scenes well.

    • “Sometimes the music really doesn't fit the scene; I don't know why the main villain's theme sounds weirdly bumbling.”
    • “Alright soundtrack, decent audio all around.”
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A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 is a casual platformer game. Common tags for A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 include indie, family friendly, narrative, third person, cute and others.

A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 is available on PC and Windows.

A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 was released on April 3, 2026.

A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 was developed by The Dreamerians.

A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 for its story but disliked it for its graphics.

A Rat's Quest - The Way Back Home | Season 1 is a single player game.

Similar games include Europa, Hob, Kena Bridge of Spirits, Wavetale, Moss and others.