Planned Release Date: Dec 8, 2026

About This Game

ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS IS THE KILLER.

RATS is online hide-and-seek horror for 2 to 8 players. Most of you are hiders, ordinary people shut in somewhere dark at night. One or two of you hunt them. Nobody knows who until the lights go down.

FIND THE PARTS. FEED THE TERMINAL. GET OUT.

The parts that open the way out turn up somewhere new every round. Carry them to the terminal one at a time, while the others watch the cameras, keep a lookout or lead the killer away. When the last part goes in, everyone hears the way open. The killer too.

NOTHING ON SCREEN POINTS THE WAY. YOU HAVE A TORCH, A PHONE AND YOUR EARS.

Nothing on screen tells you where anyone is. Every footstep, door and whisper carries down the halls and round the corners, and closed doors muffle it. Call and text the others on your phone, watch the security cameras on it, and talk in proximity voice chat heard from where you stand. The killer hears all of it too.

NINE KILLERS. EVERY ONE HUNTS DIFFERENTLY.

• The Grim Reaper leaves graves. Step on one and a bell tolls, and the Reaper rises out of the floor.
• The Werewolf wears the body of one of the living to walk among you.
• The Dark breathes out smoke no torch can cut, and sees through it.
• Ratty sniffs the air, and its rats run the way to the nearest hider.
• The Walk puts out every light, and sees the living glow with heat.
• The Scarecrow stands straw men wherever it looks, still as scarecrows, until someone finds them out.
• The Doll winds the key in her back. Her nursery rhyme drowns every other sound, and copies of her stand about the halls, playing it too.
• The Lady in White goes up the wall and crawls along the ceiling over your head, without a footstep.
• The Grand Spider spins webs across doorways and halls, and feels the tug when you walk into one.

FOUR PLACES TO DIE IN.

• The Office: hallways, cubicles, crawl-through vents and a security room with live cameras.
• Mount Minaj: a sea cliff at night in a thunderstorm, its caves lit only by torches.
• The Woods: a pine forest in fog and drizzle, with a sawmill, old storm drains to crawl through and a truck to escape in.
• The Hotel: a grand hotel shut for years, played in black and white. Ballroom, guest rooms, a boiler room and a chained front door.

DIE, AND YOU STILL GET TO WATCH.

The dead watch the rest of the round over the shoulders of whoever is left, and hear them, but only the dead can hear each other. A dead hider's phone still calls under their name.

KEY FEATURES

• Online hide-and-seek horror for 2 to 8 players: private games by code or Steam invite, or open to anyone
• One or two killers, picked at random or by the host
• 9 killers, each with a power of its own
• 4 maps: the Office, Mount Minaj, the Woods and the Hotel
• Proximity voice chat: you are heard from where you stand
• Sound travels through the building: doors muffle it, distance swallows it
• No markers or waypoints: a torch, a phone with calls, texts and the security cameras, and your ears
• Hide in lockers, crawl through vents, peek round corners, and stun the killer with the one taser, or see in the dark with night-vision goggles
• Play as realistic people, not cartoons, and hunt as hand-made monsters
• Steam achievements and leaderboards
• In English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Simplified Chinese

CREDITS

Created by A.G. Studios.

• Music: "Horror Atmosphere" by Juhani Junkala (SubspaceAudio, , CC0.
• "Footsteps on different surfaces" by congusbongus , CC BY 3.0, from recordings by swuing and ceberation .
• "Fluorescent Lamp 090324.wav" by LG , CC BY 4.0.
• Pencil skirt, shirt and tie by Elvaerwyn; lace-up blouse by punkduck (MakeHuman community assets), CC BY.
• Motion capture: the CMU Graphics Lab Motion Capture Database (mocap.cs.cmu.edu), created with funding from NSF EIA-0196217.
• Fonts: Special Elite by Astigmatic, Apache License 2.0; Nosifer by Typomondo (also the logo) and Barlow by Jeremy Tribby, SIL Open Font License.
• Software: Steam Audio by Valve, Apache License 2.0; by Riley Labrecque, MIT License; voice chat by Vivox; made with Unity. The licences in full come with the game (THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt).
• Also used, with thanks, though their licences ask for nothing: Kenney (kenney.nl), BigSoundBank , Freesound CC0 recordings, Poly Haven , Quaternius and MakeHuman .

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some of the game's text (menus, help screens, achievement names), its translations and this store page's text were written with the help of an AI assistant and reviewed by the developer. Some visuals and sound effects are made by code written with the help of an AI assistant. The game does not generate any AI content while it runs.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

RATS is a multiplayer horror game. One or two players are killers who hunt and kill the other players' characters, who are realistic adult people. A kill is a single blow: blood sprays, a pool of blood spreads under the body, the body stays on the floor until the round ends, and killers can leave bloody footprints. There is no dismemberment or torture. Expect intense fear, jump scares and being chased in the dark. Voice chat is open proximity chat with other players, including strangers, and is not moderated; you can mute any player in the lobby.