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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-11 10:21 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
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