Planned Release Date: Jan 25, 2027

About This Game

Build a gladiator dojo from nothing and turn a bunch of scrappy little rats into the most feared fighters beneath the city. Forge weapons from stolen junk, train your champions, and write the tactics that decide whether they live or die.

Fight your way from muddy backstreet cups to the legendary Flowerpot Colosseum. Make enemies. Make legends. Watch a rookie you raised from nothing bring down a fighter twice its reputation.

And remember: the crowd loves a good fight. They don't care who makes it home.

From a spoon to a legend

Every legend starts as a nobody.

Your first gladiator might have a bent spoon, a bottle-cap shield and absolutely no idea what it's doing. Give it a chance.

Every victory brings experience, new skills, tougher armour and deadlier weapons. Shape your fighters into lightning-fast duelists, relentless bruisers or cunning survivors. Watch them grow from frightened rookies into veterans with scars, habits and reputations of their own.

Write their brain

You don't control the fight. You control the fighter.

Build your gladiators' tactics command by command.

Different strategies for duels, team battles and hunts. Every decision matters once the fight begins.

Watch your carefully crafted tactics tear an opponent apart. Or watch your champion make one terrible decision and get flattened.

Real stakes

That champion you spent hours raising? You can lose them.

Every battle is a simulation of reach, stamina, balance and nerve. Weapons collide. Fighters tire. A perfectly timed dodge turns certain defeat into a killing blow.

And death ... is permanent.

No miraculous recovery. No second chance. A veteran with a hundred victories can fall to a rookie with a sharpened spoon.

Things that eat rats

You've trained your rats to beat other rats. Now throw them against something that eats them for breakfast.

Giant owls, weapon-stealing crows and oversized monsters with tricks of their own. Suddenly, your champion isn't the hunter anymore.

Time to turn the food chain upside down.

Run the Dojo

They're not just stats on a screen. They're your stubborn little champions. They make friends, hold grudges, train the next generation and become legends in their own burrow.

You'll get attached. You'll have favorites.

And then you'll have to send them into the arena.

The door under the arena

You thought winning the Colosseum was the goal.

Then you discover what's beneath it.

Your vanished master. Sealed tunnels. Something changing the rats below. And a forgotten city no rat ever built.

The arena was only the beginning...

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

As a solo developer, I use AI-assisted tools selectively to help speed up parts of the production process.
Everything is processed further with my own tools and fitted into the game's systems before it ships.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Ratiator looks cute, but it has dark themes. Rats fight in lethal arena matches and hunts. Combat shows small amounts of blood, and a rat that dies stays dead. Its friends grieve, and you decide how it is buried. The story deals with the loss of characters you care about, grief, animals that hunt and kill rats, a ruler who sells young rats into experiments, and a chemical poison that gives strength before it brings sickness, malformation and death. Later in the game you can choose to give that poison to your own fighters. There are occasional references to alcohol. There is no sexual content and no nudity.