WAR RATS: The Rat em Up

“Some bugs like the special rat not coming out for whatever reason, music being turned back on weirdly enough despite being turned all the way down.”

“It is very bloody and graphic with loud metal music.”

“Fragility of the player—especially early, and some upgrade costs/gun purchases really encouraging you to farm cheese, but the music and overall game vibe scream push!”

“On my laptop the graphics bug out constantly.”

“That too is very flash: a cheap cheesy game, poorly made or thought out, but it does what it's doing well enough and the aesthetic carries a lot of weight.”

“Feels like something you would play on miniclip as a kid but x10 the content and x10 the visuals.”

“A mediocre game that is reminiscent of many flash games with only ten hours I feel as if I've seen everything this game has to offer. The combat is fun but gets old fast. There are many weapons and differing damage types but you never really need to care about it once you get a hold of the rare ones; you can just use that for the entire game and with upgrades it's fine for use during NG+. The actual combat has you stuck at the nearest campsite like a phone with a bad battery, while the tier 3 turret massacres entire waves on its own. Every mission has an annoying endgame where you spam ratniters and hope they reach the base before the next wave spawns. The gear system feels superfluous, only giving minor buffs and cluttering the screen. Damage feedback is also abysmal with no difference shown between an attack that lightly grazes you and one that shreds you, forcing you to stare at the top corner of the screen to avoid dying to a single rocket.”

“There's some difficulty progression curve issues for sure and it's not really designed around playing the same mission over again for resources and progression because you can't! The first three missions were okay, they got more difficult, but with the right weapons, good movements, and reinforcements it was clearly beatable. Then the game offered two missions to choose from (going up or down), and even though I chose the map going down with "moderate" difficulty (the top one was "very hard"), I was not able to clear it in over 1 hour. The mission was clearly 2-4 times harder than any mission before. Additionally, the hitboxes of my troops and buildings were really in the way in this mission.”

“The 'start of the mission' gameplay loop was strange, because if one was about to fail, it was better to lose and take as much money as possible, so you could upgrade abilities and weapons (which were too expensive overall) or at least get a headstart in the next battle. Especially because the money in the mission and in the nest is the same, there is the strange situation where you lose the battle on purpose to get a better second try.”

“The most glaring issue is the game's poor optimization.”

“It's a very flashy game and really horribly optimized.”

“Besides bugs, optimization on lower-end hardware can make the game chug during heavier populated battles.”

“It does have replayable content (skirmish, horde), but I don't really see the fun extending past finishing the campaign.”

“Although the campaign is relatively short, replay value is better than one might expect, and the difficulty level on horde mode can get quite high faster than one might expect.”

“The main campaign provides a sequence of escalating battles against increasingly elaborate technorat forces, and additional skirmish modes add some replay value.”

“This would be fine if your money making capability was increased in relative tandem; however, it gets to a point where striving for upgrades feels more like grinding and, in the case of upgrading my shotgun, not even worth the time.”

“Most of the items buff weapons you don't have yet, or troops that are completely useless, so have fun grinding previous levels for items you lost.”

“You'll die a lot, but life is cheap as they say and you can 'brute force' a tough level by farming upgrades and new weapons.”

“I really want to say I recommend this because I had a lot of fun, but the game is way too buggy to be sold for any amount of money, and some bugs are save persistent issues so you can't even just reload to clear them.”

“It's buggy, the bank ate my cheese and I can't even hurt the last boss :(”

“It's a little buggy here and there.”