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Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge
Developer Invent4 Entertainment
Bad Rats: The Rats' Revenge is a 2009 puzzle video game developed by Invent4 Entertainment. Over a string of levels, the player places a set of rats and static objects to guide a ball towards a trap that kills a cat. Bad Rats was released as Invent4 Entertainment's debut game on 20 July 2009 via Steam, followed by releases on other services in 2010. While it received no reviews at release, retrospective pieces… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
218 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
124 positive · 33 negative
95% range 72–85%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 124 | 33 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
61 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
11,713 of 14,823 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 218 · most liked first'Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge' released on this day in 2009. A crude puzzle game with inconsistent physics solutions, which rose to infamy on the back of its edgy presentation and for the fact it once made for a relatively cheap "gag gift."
unlabelledView post →'Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge' released on this day in 2009. A crude puzzle game with inconsistent physics solutions, which rose to infamy on the back of its edgy presentation and for the fact it makes for a relatively cheap "gag gift" on Steam.
unlabelledView post →A relic of past innocence. Bad Rats was the de facto joke purchase circa 2009 on Steam. Before the store was flooded with countless editions of Shower with Dad, Epstein Island and Sex with Hitler, gifting this relatively wholesome (if gory) puzzle game was seen as the pinnacle of humour. It was a fun in-joke due to its low quality, awful gameplay and abysmal production barriers - you weren’t expected to actually play it. Since the launch of Steam Greenlight in 2012, the marketplace has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would note that this event's lists are rather sus though. For example, I saw Bad Rats in there. That game came out in 2009. SteamDB suggests no updates within this decade. I'd be at least a little surprised if they seriously updated it to make it even worse than it was already notorious for.
unlabelledView post →Whats a bad game y'all think everyone should play? Either because its interesting but poorly made or just really funny. I think everyone should experience Bad Rats at least once, really see what happens to a puzzle game when logic doesn't exist
unlabelledView post →You know what interests me? Incredibly popular, basic, but also very wrong opinions about the worst thing in any given category. Like, Arby's is the worst restaurant or Nickelback is the worst band or Bad Rats is the worst game or The Room is the worst film. They can all get so, *so* much worse.
unlabelledView post →Our history and playthrough of 'Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge' is up now on YouTube! Watch in astonishment as random physics ruin perfectly good puzzle solutions, and as we unravel over the course of forty-four levels. "And all can be a question of right position." youtu.be/jOnCXRr4zBQ
unlabelledView post →pros : rats cons : i literally cannot stop touching myself
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game has turned my suicidal thoughts into a plan
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →About a week ago Resident Evil: Requiem released. The price is CAD$ 124.29 (or USD$91.40). I have purchased Bad Rats for CAD$ 2.93 (or USD$ 2.16). Now i'm not the math guy but if I am correct I saved CAD$ 121.36 (or USD$ 89.24) on a good game rather than buying a pretty good game for too much money. I know i've played Bad Rats for 22 minutes as of the review but, I only needed to see the price of Resident Evil: Requiem to know it's basically nothing short of highway robbery.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like to play this while extinguishing cigarettes on my thigh and playing with my bellybutton.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You've either been gifted bad rats or you've lived long enough to gift bad rats.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →when I say, "I am going to ignore every game participating in this Steam AI Gaming Festival," I MEAN I am GOING to IGNORE EVERY GAME participating in this Steam AI Gaming Festival. I think Bad Rats is just in there as some kind of bit? Even if not, kind of hard to avoid if you have Steam.
unlabelledView post →This game sucks but it's frequently on sale for 50 cents, used to be the funniest thing in the world to gift to your friend. Probably still funny to do that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The fact this game isn't a billion dollar franchise blows my mind!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i actually gave the game a shot and I genuinely hated every moment playing this. 10/10 unique experience.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad Rats is not a very good game. It's a worse The Incredible Machine. It has non-deterministic initial states (just try to get some of these levels to act the same one run after another). The stupid ball can bounce out into the foreground for seemingly no reason. The music is objectively terrible, and the graphics are ugly outside of some admittedly amusing and occasionally we'll animated cat death animations. I even found that if you pause the game at just the right time when a level is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i successfully tagged and ignored everything and turned it into Steam Bad Rats Fest (which considering it's a 17 year old game, is probably here by mistake)
unlabelledView post →I do not remember buying this game and I certainly don't remember playing it. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had heard the legends, of how utterly god awful this game was but I did not believe, oh how foolish I was. Horrible visuals, ear grading music, annoying sound effects and physics so bad that the exact same layout will have radically different results every time. Even on sale, unless you are masochist who enjoys inflicting pain upon yourself, avoid it. Don't be like me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like how Bad Rats, a terrible game from 2009, has entered itself into EVERY AI showcase category.
unlabelledView post →Perhaps the rats are not bad but... merely trapped in an unrelenting simulation of cause and effect, endlessly suffering for our fleeting amusement. We call them 'bad', yet we are the ones who chose to play God in a universe broken by physics...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When most people talk about their favorite video games, they mention titles like "The Legend of Zelda," "Minecraft," or "The Last of Us." But for me, none of those games even come close to the masterpiece that is Bad Rats. Yes, you heard that right. Bad Rats, a game that many consider to be a quirky, sometimes awkward puzzle game, is, without a doubt, the best game in the world. In fact, I’d go as far as to say it’s the greatest thing that has ever happened to me—not just in terms of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(for anyone out of the know. Bad Rats is from 2009. And honestly AI could probably make a better game)
unlabelledView post →i have boughten at least 25 copies of this game its the best game to gift during the holidays or any time really but its a must buy when on sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rats, rats, we are the rats. Celebrating yet another birthday bash. 🎶 🎸 🎷𝄞
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →goated birthday present
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →She bad on my rats until i revenge
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i want a refund
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my son was born in '09 and i still maintain that this game was the best thing to happen that year
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has to be one of the greatest games of all time. The amazing graphics, gameplay and music brought tears to my eyes. This game goes against all odds. New games nowadays are woke, but Bad Rats knows how to do it. Keep up the good work. 100/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so yeah, my name is aiden my life is orerty crazy it started when my mom met my dad and they had me! yeah s anyways i played bad rats a whiel ago and like it was opretty gio di only played it for 40 minuets but those minutes in teh suibn where turely soemthign...... i am tearing upo niow. my beklovec chungus us dyign outside he has been spoiisooned by teh evil shire liek what the fucjk. i miss my chubngus my tears flow so much they are evrywhere and nowhere. wht ath e ♥♥♥♥. i cry inti tghe…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I became less racist after I played bad rats
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is an objectively bad meme gift game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →how can 9/11 be an inside job if it happened outside
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not enough Israel for a game that takes place in Israel. Why wasn't Ratatouille set in Tel Aviv? Is Brad Bird stupid?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They don't make real games like this anymore, the liberals won't allow it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad Rats is a physics-based puzzle game that has achieved a strange kind of immortality on Steam, not through critical acclaim or elegant design, but through notoriety, irony, and sheer oddity. Developed by Invent4 Entertainment and published by Strategy First, the game presents itself as a mischievous revenge fantasy in which rats attempt to eliminate cats using elaborate contraptions and improvised physics setups. On the surface, it resembles classic chain-reaction puzzle games, but the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My quality of life increased after playing this game. I realized that there is more to life than just living. There is bad rats.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game should be instantly added to every Steam account created by default
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad Rats is featured in it, a game from 2 decades ago or so. I think they added stuff on false pretense on it.
unlabelledView post →im prodding my bum hole
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the greats. An absolutely fantastic puzzle game with intricate and well thought out obstacles. This game is unique in the respect that it gives the player far more than they would typically need to succeed. Herein lies the most genius part of the game, the title. Are the rats bad, or are you?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems (from my uninformed perspective) to be the equivalent of crashing the job faire / enthusiast convention / wedding party of an awful group you hate. Adding an AI asset to fit in by a technicality and do an ugly dance with the more truly awful people, or some such? Bad Rats is an OLD game.
unlabelledView post →This game changed my life. My entire view of everything that exists in this world, in fact, even in the entire universe. I can never look at anything I know the same way again. This game represents emotions that most humans could never understand. But I can. Thanks to this game I was awakened to many things previously considered unimaginable. I owe my life to you, Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The funny thing about this title for me is that I know I installed and tried (not terribly hard mind you) to get it to run a handful of times, over I don't know how many computers, and today, for whatever reason, it just finally fired up and ran for me. And yeah, that's about all there is to say about it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you have to kill a cat. and the cat meows in fear. bad game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To quote the Youtuber known as Brutalmoose, "This game is bad... Rats!"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's trash. i love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am become Rat, destroyer of cats
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A chaotic physics puzzle game that’s rough around the edges but weirdly entertaining. Its bizarre charm makes it memorable in its own way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An absolute dumpster fire of a game with terrible physics.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game made me cry
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →♥♥♥♥ THESE STUPID ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ DUMBASS ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RAS GOD THEY AEEE USELESS AND STUPID I HATE THIS GAME NEVER PLAY IT TIS AWFUL I HATE IT LITERALLY IT ALL LUCK BASE AND AWFUL BRO I JUST WANA ENJOY A SUMMER EVENING WITH HOT LATINA GIRLS IN A BATHTUB NOT PLAY THIS ♥♥♥♥ REFUND MY FRIEND HIS POUDN BRO THIS ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I HATE EVEYTHING THIS SI H23RREWRWER8RASDsDSAdAWQEWEadXCXZWew
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An entertaining puzzle. I helped the rats as much as I could.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not good, not that bad either. Get at discount
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They're rats and they're bad. Enough said.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Note: Bad Rats was released in 2009 and, as far as I can tell, has never been updated since. The game became somewhat of a meme for being one step above shovelware and yet somehow still being listed on Steam in 2009. The developer has not released anything else on Steam since 2016.
unlabelledView post →actual piece of ♥♥♥♥
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolute trash. Buy it for all your friends and loved ones.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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