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A jam submission

Rat CountryView game page

A frontier rodent-horror experience. Made for the InboundShovel Game Jam 2025.
Submitted by Mr. Buffelvatten — 1 hour, 49 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1463.7073.707
Overall#2113.6833.683
Presentation#2293.8543.854
Creativity#3543.4883.488

Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Preferred Name
Mr. Buffelvatten works. Just Buffelvatten if we're feeling more casual ;)

Newbie?

Newbie

Yes - I'm new to game jams!

How does your game fit the theme?
The player does not have time to be careful and deliberate with their base maintenance during the days. They'll have to just get started!

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Submitted

Very nice game! The game loop is nicely done and the presentation works well. Good job!

Submitted

Great game! Love that dark vibe! The game play is fun and quickly become challenging, well done!

Submitted

Great concept! Defending the house from the rats, which break everything down in their path. Great idea with the different items which you can buy, paying with rat cadavers. I think that's a very cool idea. Keep going on that one! This is gonna be great! 

Submitted

Love! Really satisfying running around killing rats.haha. Nice visuals, nice story. Really really well done. Not sure if it was just something on my side, but would have really liked to have been able to full screen this as everything felt a little bit small but wasn't able to find an option to. Really good submission

Submitted

Damn, that stranger wasn't lying when he said the days are never long enough.
Super moody and atmospheric, even the title screen, love the fog of war vision effect and how placing more walls protects you, but also obstructs your vision. 

Submitted

This game got me locked in for quite awhile! Really good balance on the morning and night phase and the difficulty curve does not feel too high. I made it to night 19! Good job!

Developer

Nice work! Gets pretty tough by night 19! Thanks a bunch for playing and commenting!

Submitted

Loved the design! Loved the simple style! Fellow rat friends? (╥ _ ╥).  Everything was satisfying; the smoothness of the game, the visuals, the effects, the music! It gets more and more challenging throughout the nights. Playthrough lasted 17 nights with 1 food left and it was thrilling to create some soft of strategy just to keep that 1 food intact! 10/10 rat game 

Developer(+1)

Rat games are the best! Thank you so much for playing and leaving feedback! Solid effort, making it 17 nights! It gets a bit crazy after a while!

Submitted (1 edit)

the game idea is fun and addictive . my only problem is some rat just running into walls and doing nothing afterward. The VFX is well made making killing the rats satsifying. 

Submitted

This game gives me project zomboid vibes, I really enjoyed it and music is nice too

Submitted

Simple but addictive loop, though I almost wish there was some kind of endgame or time limit

Who knew smashing rats was so fun? Love the music and overall vibe

Developer(+1)

Thank you for your kind words!

Some sort of boss-encounter would definitely be on the list of things to add

Submitted(+1)

NGL, I had fun time playing it!

Developer

Really appreciate you giving it a go, and glad you had fun!

Submitted

Really fun! Not sure how long I played but I got to night 15 and only stopped because I was getting a bit tired. I was going for the "let them come to me" approach and building using grates and shrapnels. At that point I wasn't struggling to get enough money to keep building. I really enjoy the upgrades and constant get-money-buy-defenses loop there! I think it would be even better with further upgrades to yourself or defenses.  Also love the visual effects and music!

Developer

Thank you so much for playing and leaving feedback! I honestly struggled alot to find a balance between impossibly difficult and too easy. I definitely wouldve loved to add even more expensive things to buy once those cadavers really start adding up in the late game. I think around night 15 is when the amount of rats maxes out, so well done for getting that far :D 

Submitted(+1)

"Dem dirty rats!" =3

Interesting game. I liked the Light 2D/ Light Occluder effect.

Developer

Thank you for playing and leaving feedback!

Submitted

A really good game, it gives a really good first impression with the intro and the gameplay loop is fun. There are some things to improve like a radius to detect how much space the lanterns will illuminate would be nice and maybe some other purchasable items to automate rat killing but this game was a really good one!

Developer

Thank you very much for trying it out and leaving such great feedback! Your lantern idea is excellent. Along the development I definitely forgot that a new player wouldn't really know how large the radius is.

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