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Rocket Rats
Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear, and conquer the moon!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
64 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Charming little creatures and a fun, pocket-size game that can be entirely finished up in a few hours. This dev's art/animation/music and gameplay style blissfully reminds me of Amiga 500 or early Sega times, when games…”
“A fun, easy and short game. This game starts of as a bullet hell but later on it transitions more to an idler (you just choose the upgrades you do not even have to move later on). Some positives + Decent amount of…”
“Rocket Rats is a fun survivor-like game that starts strong but becomes repetitive fairly quickly. At the beginning, the gameplay feels engaging and rewarding. There’s a good variety of weapons, abilities, and…”
30 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Charming little creatures and a fun, pocket-size game that can be entirely finished up in a few hours. This dev's art/animation/music and gameplay style blissfully reminds me of Amiga 500 or early Sega times, when games…”
“A fun, easy and short game. This game starts of as a bullet hell but later on it transitions more to an idler (you just choose the upgrades you do not even have to move later on). Some positives + Decent amount of…”
“short-form, bullet-hell roguelike where you spend 30 waves blasting cheese moon rocks with space rats. each rat has a diverse skill tree with different branches that give unique buffs to their signature abilities. rats…”
19 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Rats are very nice”
“Charming little creatures and a fun, pocket-size game that can be entirely finished up in a few hours. This dev's art/animation/music and gameplay style blissfully reminds me of Amiga 500 or early Sega times, when games…”
“Rocket Rats is a fun survivor-like game that starts strong but becomes repetitive fairly quickly. At the beginning, the gameplay feels engaging and rewarding. There’s a good variety of weapons, abilities, and…”
15 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“🐀🚀 10/10 WOULD COMMIT CHEESE-RELATED SPACE CRIMES AGAIN 🚀🐀 Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear,…”
“very high quality (especially considering the price) and has a simple but enjoyable gameplay loop”
“Fun and short game, there's not a lot of depth in it, nor does it need it. A few weapons with a few synergies, and fast enjoyable runs, that for the most part consist on picking the right upgrades so you're able to just…”
14 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“A fun, easy and short game. This game starts of as a bullet hell but later on it transitions more to an idler (you just choose the upgrades you do not even have to move later on). Some positives + Decent amount of…”
“Rocket Rats is a fun survivor-like game that starts strong but becomes repetitive fairly quickly. At the beginning, the gameplay feels engaging and rewarding. There’s a good variety of weapons, abilities, and…”
“How much fun can you have with a low-budget-survivor-ruguelike? "Rocket Rats" proves: a lot to fill a sunday with descent fun! + cute visuals with rats running all over a tiny moon + upgrades to achieve which will…”
22 of the 103 reviews raise this · 19 of them still recommend the game.
“I don't understand why does this game have overwhelmingly positive reviews. I played so many different bullet heaven games over the years and this one has to take the "cheese" for being one of the most dull out there.”
“3/10 its an AFK game..... achievement for not moving once and beating the game all about what you pick to level your mouse up well not moving once, also no way to beat on your 1sr few tries as you need to come back with…”
“A fun, easy and short game. This game starts of as a bullet hell but later on it transitions more to an idler (you just choose the upgrades you do not even have to move later on). Some positives + Decent amount of…”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this · 10 of them still recommend the game.
“Rocket Rats initially succeeds as a short, imitative title through charming visuals, reasonable variation for the scope, and unique upgrades, skills, and builds. Unfortunately, this game greatly [b]overstays its…”
“How much fun can you have with a low-budget-survivor-ruguelike? "Rocket Rats" proves: a lot to fill a sunday with descent fun! + cute visuals with rats running all over a tiny moon + upgrades to achieve which will…”
“loved this game so much. I wish there was more content as its pretty quick to get to the point where there isn't much more to do, but what is there is polished and well made. every upgrade feels meaningful and there is…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“3/10 its an AFK game..... achievement for not moving once and beating the game all about what you pick to level your mouse up well not moving once, also no way to beat on your 1sr few tries as you need to come back with…”
“Rocket Rats initially succeeds as a short, imitative title through charming visuals, reasonable variation for the scope, and unique upgrades, skills, and builds. Unfortunately, this game greatly [b]overstays its…”
“[h1] Rats game with bullet hell but you are the one who shot all those nasty bullets. [/h1] Once you know which skill card you should pick, your screen will just turn into chaotic rainbow mode. Also very easy for…”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“3/10 its an AFK game..... achievement for not moving once and beating the game all about what you pick to level your mouse up well not moving once, also no way to beat on your 1sr few tries as you need to come back with…”
“A fun, easy and short game. This game starts of as a bullet hell but later on it transitions more to an idler (you just choose the upgrades you do not even have to move later on). Some positives + Decent amount of…”
“This game chills me to my bones. This is the most crippling game I have ever had to courage to install. Do not play this game if you are weak, this game will destroy the feeble minds of any dimwitted fools who decide…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 94.3% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“This is one of those cases where a mix review would be more fitting. The only reason I mark this as positive is because I find the idea interesting, but it's poorly made. The game follows the basic mechanics of defeat enemies, get upgrades and go further every run, however is…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“I enjoyed it. Fun to cheev hunt. Enough variety to make a couple of runs fun. Could use a boss or different enemies/levels. 8/10.”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Expected time to 100% completion: [b] 2-8 hours [/b] Replayability: [b] Short bursts [/b] Pros: [b] cohesive style; fun to break the game with OP builds; rats [/b] Cons: [b] low build diversity for a game where creating builds is the main mechanic [/b] Reviewing positive, but…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
1.4.0 | Localization Update
General Update- The game has been localized to the following new languages: French, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional.
1.3.0 | Steam Cards and Badges Out, QoL, Balance Changes and New Upgrades
Steam Cards Now the game will reward you with Trading Cards that can be collected to craft Steam Badges. We are also adding other community items like Backgrounds and Emoticons in this update. General
1.2.2 | Hotfix Patch
General Update - Reduced the delay for the enemies to start showing up after selecting an upgrade; - Perfuration X: Now also increases projectile penetration of Star Projectiles and Arrow Projectiles;
1.2.0 | Upgrades Collection, Character, Upgrades and Quality of Life Changes
General Update - Added a menu option to disable automatic pause when tabbed out; - Added a menu option to restart a run; - You can now see the enemy health increase and enemy speed increase in the sta
Felps Update - Health Upgrade
Health V - Every 200th enemy killed heals you by 0.5 hearts. For every heal, your next heal needs 200 more enemies killed.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Casual |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Pixel Graphics · Bullet Hell · Casual · Rogue-lite · 2D · Action · Singleplayer · Vampire · Shooter · Rogue-like · Top-Down Shooter (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Korean * , Portuguese - Portugal * , French * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Polish * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * , Traditional Chinese * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 32 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 or AMD Phenom II X2 550 Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, 512 MB or AMD Radeon HD 7570, 1 GB