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RATSHOT is a game about a fugitive rat in New York City.
The movement is quick and nimble, with plenty of room to challenge
yourself with level rankings and speedrunning while still being beatable
by the average player.

RATSHOT is now on STEAM! GO WISHLIST!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3980250/RATSHOT/?beta=0





This game is a DEMO!
And it is NOT up to date with how it looks in the most recent devlog! There are bugs! Empty un-decorated sections of levels! No custom keybinds!!! Unless you're really eager to try the game, I recommend waiting until the steam demo releases. Until then, if you wanna support the development, feel free to donate before downloading the game! (or play it first idk)

If you want to see how the game was made, watch the devlog series HERE

Keyboard and mouse is recommended
Credits are in the extras menu in the options

StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
AuthorRetroCrow
GenrePlatformer
Tags2D, Cartoon, Indie, No AI, Singleplayer

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

RATSHOT Playtest 0.1.1.zip 77 MB
RATSHOT Playtest 0.1.1 Linux.zip 102 MB
RATSHOT Playtest 0.1.0.zip 77 MB

Development log

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So on the 1.1 patch sometimes when you ground pound you can get stuck. In this case i somehow started flying.

will be fixed in the steam demo!

Thank you!

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oh its so cool. oh its so cool i love video game.. video gmae so good

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I dont know why but when i try run it it just opens an empty application that disappears and i cant even delete it cause it says its currently open any fixes

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Saw your recent video on this, my thoughts on demo movement:
Additive momentum is cool and adds depth! Especially if maintaining flow lets you maintain a momentum boost. (this is Pizza Tower's entire thing, running without stopping builds up mach speed)

Keep the Nugget Boost, even if you gotta nerf the speed somehow, and let other moves chain from it's momentum. Perhaps relegate it to extreme horizontal speed, where jumping and using bullets gives more vertical.

Also, consider having the stomp keep momentum. It would still require rhythm but now it's got angles and DEPTH.
There's no obstacles where I feel a need for cancelling momentum, so the only time I want to stomp is when it's basically required because I have to bounce off trash cans. You have put a mandatory momentum-killer in your speed game good sir.

If you don't mind me spitballing ideas for the knife, i think it should  add some form of momentum but I dunno what. Maybe bit of vertical momentum from knifing walls? Using melee to climb is fun in other games. OR have it bounce you away from the wall for a turn-around mechanic.

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Hey I just played this after putting it off for months. It’s a lot of fun! 

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Finally played this demo and it's fuckin AWESOME!! Super fun and speedy and I love the art direction of it all! I found the controls a lil uncomfortable, but that's probably just cuz my keyboard is kinda ass and chunky. Hoping for the controller support in the full game tho.


For more actual criticisms:

- I wish you could enter into a slide straight from a ground pound on flat land. Having the press S twice to try and slide after landing a jump was kinda annoying. I mean not the biggest deal but I think the game would feel way better if you could

- Having to press E to enter doors and stuff was SUPER uncomfortable to do, especially when trying to get through a level quickly. What makes the E button worse is that the button RIGHT next to it, R, is the restart button. This just means that, if you're speedrunning, there's a good chance you'll accidentally hit R instead of E when trying to enter a door and you'll mess up your whole run instantly. Yeah enable the restart button is an optional thing, but it being so easy to hit it accidentally just makes it obselete.


But anyway this game is SUPER sick, stylish and fun! Wishin' ya the best of luck with the rest of development!

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this is peak!!!!!!!!!

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The game doesn't open for me :(
It opens for like a splitsecond and then closes again
The window doesn't even appear

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wha

The links on the menu don't work, and neither does the link to the form either.

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you might have popups blocked on your computer

Oh, maybe your right, Ill check

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les go

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ok idid the first level perfect cause why not

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I found the control scheme on controller quite unintuitive. Otherwise very epic, sick art style I shot myself (across the gap)

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Peak

I think you should have a bit more control over how high the gun shoots you.

Only bug I encountered was the character sliding much further than usual in the intro.

Got a P rank. Good gaem.

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Bro the gameplay is so fun. I love just running around and doing shit! Great frickin game, looking forward to the full release

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Goated. Or should I say...


RATTED!!!


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I'm getting this error on Linux

Error: Couldn't load project data at path ".". Is the .pck file missing? If you've renamed the executable, the associated .pck file should also be renamed to match the executable's name (without the extension).

And the exe doesn't work with wine either

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Retrocrow forgot to package the pck file with the linux build, download the windows version and get the pck file from there.

works fine for me atleast

Actually, i asked with him on discord abt the error, so i knew abt it before seeing your answer lol

download the linux version 

As the other answer said, Retrocrow forgot to package the pck file

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yo!!!! I am a game dev who can probably help with producing some music/concept art for this game!!!! me pick me!!!!!

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anti rat community been real quiet since this dropped

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tour de pizza bluesky been real quiet since this dropped

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I love the game! I feel like it's very nice, and polished. Some thing I would like to see added is an option to just jump again in the air to do the shoot jump ( as well as custom controls of course ). I play on laptop with no mouse, so it's hard to do the shoot jump or right click to attack

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EVERYONE! rat detected

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PEAK INCARNATE

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PEAK

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holy peak...

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She is ratting my shot 'till I 3-walleted (Nice game btw)

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This game made me ratshot all over the place

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ratshot more like POOPSHOT #OWNED

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hell yea dude, fun asf

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we've never been so back

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the peakest of Peak . . .