Разработчик: Jens Bolanz
Описание
The game deliberately refraines from using violent content and is therefore suited as a humorous game for and with kids. It is a 2-4 player local multiplayer focusing on playing together on a large TV screen or monitor.
Ratergy offers enough action to brighten every party. Through the simple game mechanics and the fast-paced combat rounds, it is aimed particularly at occasional players and beginners. Expert gamers however have also the opportunity to fight over the cheese dominance on a strategic level by using game elements such as conveyor belts and power ups. Newbie or advanced player - it is all about the most efficient tactics to gather cheese!
Game principle
At the beginning of the game, every player chooses a rat nest with two rats. By switching the control between his rats, the player now tries to be the first to bring 10 pieces of cheese to his nest. He can choose between several levels, which offer a variety of gaming elements for a more diversified battle over the cheese. The player can use conveyer belts to get faster and activate door switches to block the way for opposing rats. The usage of power ups such as speed potions, shrinking devices and bombs guaranties dynamic combats and a lot of fun!Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7, 8.1, 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 M380
- Memory: 500 MB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 4000
- Storage: 100 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Controller Required
Отзывы пользователей
Ratergy is yet another of literally hundreds of lazy amateur 2D retro top-down action/arena games infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one at least isn't a top down shooter, it's more of an action game where you must vie against other players (there are no other players, because the technical implementation here is awful) to collect more cheese for your rat cheese pile.
One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard, and some decisions seem to have been made to deliberately insult PC gamers, despite this only existing (as far as I can tell) on PC.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic "retro" looking 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
In a sheer insult to PC gamers, the developer has locked out keyboard and mouse controls on this game. The developer demands, without compromise, that you must use a console peasant children's toy gamepad to play this garbage game. This is simply unacceptable, developers must never dictate to gamers how a game is to be consumed.
This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for.
Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is most commonly used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs.
A strong argument can be made that construction kits like GameMaker Studio should never be used to make games for profit, as the "developer", Jens Bolanz has done here. These construction kits are intended to teach people some of the basic principles of game development, and to make small demos to pass around with friends. They're not intended to replace to actual work of real, professional game developers. So it's inappropriate when amateurs try to use these for profit, without any actual, real game development effort taking place. This doesn't result in products that have any real meaningful value for gamers.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Ratergy is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
Looked like a fun game for local multiplayer but I experienced a crash after only playing for a 10 minutes and asked for a refund.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Jens Bolanz |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 21.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 0% положительных (2) |