Rat Simulator
Fair · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 15h 40h to 100%
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 282 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
A survival stealth role-playing simulator where you play as a rat in a suburban neighborhood.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 760 GTX / AMD Radeon HD 5870 or equivalent videocard, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 38 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tree Simulator 2022 ($5.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Streamer Daily ($9.99, scores 56).
More about Rat Simulator
15 hours to finish it, 40 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.7 times the campaign.
The drop-off
67% start to 8% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's not the hero they expect, but it's the only hero they've got As a rat myself, you may expect me to label this as ratcist anti-rat propaganda due to the spreading of the plague and whatnot, however, I believe The Rat is an antihero, and in this review I will explain why This is my interpretation of the story In short, The Rat (our protagonist, never given a more proper name) is a supergenius rat, and has somehow...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The game is beyond amazing. The graphics are out of this world, and the game is pretty fun and challenging. The Rat is a well written character.
There is so much potential for this to be a Metal Gear x Rat Simulator game but they screwed it all up. The controls are janky and unresponsive most of the time. The hiding gameplay and detection system makes the game an annoying slog to play through. The voice lines sound like something a schizophrenic hobo would mutter to themselves, which is one of the funnier aspects of the game. The game has a good premise and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Rat Simulator scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/596950/rat-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.