{"id":847319,"date":"2025-05-10T21:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/the-grimy-sci-fi-in-songs-of-rats-feels-like-mothership-rpg-meets-fighting-fantasy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T21:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T02:12:33","slug":"the-grimy-sci-fi-in-songs-of-rats-feels-like-mothership-rpg-meets-fighting-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/10\/the-grimy-sci-fi-in-songs-of-rats-feels-like-mothership-rpg-meets-fighting-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"The grimy sci-fi in Songs Of Rats feels like Mothership RPG meets Fighting Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first enemy I encounter in the Steam demo<\/a> for Songs Of Rats<\/a> is a giant golem, encased in fridge-thick armour with fists the size of fridges and a thousand-fridge stare. If RPG<\/a>s are good at anything, it’s making numbers scary. To wit: The battle golem has 40 health, and I have a nerf crossbow with pretensions that does one entire damage. I manage to do two entire damage, and he downs me in two hits.<\/p>\n

This may well be what it feels like for a real life rat to fight a real life fridge, and in that, Songs Of Rats earns its name. The intro is all 80s cheese meets a desperate melancholy bolstered by bleak and bitty retro-futurist visuals. It’s also very pen n’ paper, down to losing health if you don’t have enough food and the limited action points you have to spend each day on exploration.<\/p>\n

A trailer for you. It took some digging, I tell you. A certain other song about rats<\/a> has monopoly on the search term.<\/p>\n

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