Fit check
Is Songs of Rats worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RPG players who want a dark setting centered on rats and ruined civilizations
- Choose-your-own-adventure fans who prefer maze exploration with consequential route choices
- Players seeking roguelike progression with character development, gear upgrades, and companions
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a fixed, linear world rather than an environment that changes during exploration
- Players who want a lighthearted RPG or a story without survival pressure and disturbing enemies
- Players looking for a large-scale party RPG with an explicitly broad range of systems
Our take on Songs of Rats
Rather than placing a conventional human hero in a stable fantasy realm, the game makes rats the inhabitants of civilization's ruins and turns a shifting labyrinth into its central structure. Its choose-your-own-adventure influence also gives exploration a decision-led shape.
What is Songs of Rats?
Songs of Rats is a dark roguelike RPG set in the Wreckage, a maze that changes as its ruins and paths shift.
Players create a rat hero, choose routes through the labyrinth, battle human and nonhuman enemies, improve equipment, and recruit companions. The game draws on choose-your-own-adventure books, framing exploration around decisions and hidden mysteries. Its setting contains burrows, settlements, hideouts, and the remains of vanished civilizations. Survival is central as the character ventures beyond safe areas, encounters strange threats, and searches for answers about the surrounding reality. A faithful dog can also be petted.
How Songs of Rats plays
- 01Changing labyrinth
- The Wreckage reshapes its maze as the character explores its ruins and concealed areas.
- 02Hero development
- Players create a protagonist, improve equipment, and assemble a team of companions.
- 03Branching exploration
- The game uses choice-driven adventure elements in which route selection affects the journey through the maze.
- 04Dark mysteries
- Exploration leads to secrets connected to civilizations that disappeared long ago.
- 05Animal protagonist
- The player character is a rat living among the ruins of former civilizations.
- 06Faithful dog
- A dog companion can be petted during the adventure.
Songs of Rats compared to similar games
Songs of Rats combines roguelike progression, a changing maze, character creation, gear upgrades, and companions. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition centers on an unconventional story and exploration of a strange city, while Back to the Dawn focuses on prison survival, investigation, crime, and escape. Ghost of a Tale follows a mouse and minstrel in a medieval animal world, with exploration, stealth, disguises, and conversations rather than a shifting labyrinth.
Songs of Rats: platforms & release
Is Songs of Rats worth it?
It is worth it if: RPG players who want a dark setting centered on rats and ruined civilizations. Skip it if: players seeking a fixed, linear world rather than an environment that changes during exploration.
Where can I download Songs of Rats?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Songs of Rats's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Songs of Rats on?
Windows and Linux.
