TFW the stripper has more clothes on than you. :sweat:

I guess... Cheese is the reason.

I enjoyed this a lot! It oozes atmosphere! It's like a mix between classic alone in the dark games and ratatouille, with a mark morgan soundtrack. Lots to love!

No idea how I could afford that taxi ride, though :thinking:

Wow, this is a game of such high quality, I advise you to play it for sure. Beautiful PSX style, great music, point and click adventure! Humor! Guys, I really liked it, I really did.
Found small graphic bug, Linda is a ghost for some reason...

The vibes are immaculate, I'm moving to rat city. I adore the style, the dithering effect is used to well to create a grungy atmosphere and all of the characters are really charming. Still waiting to hear the joke from Sand though. Incredible work, thank you for making it!!

I can't believe how pretty and detailed the environments are, its really incredible. The humor is obviously a 5/5, with some really good writing and jokes that balance out the gritty noir ambience perfectly. The duration is also perfect.

I did have 3D model issues with the rats from the bar scene, the punk rat in the club and Linda, but it wasn't that much of an issue since they're more silhouettes than models anyway in the scenes (apart from Linda), and the textboxes are how you see them.

One small thing I thought could be better is that there should be more dialogue for the little champ rat that asks you cheese rice, just to let you know its the next progression step. Something like clearly stating "Give me that and i'll let you pass".

Otherwise, again, absolutely fantastic stuff :) tbh im biased, noir parodies are my favorite

This is just a humor masterpiece!!! I was playing this in class and I just couldn't stop holding my laughter and sharing the story with my friends. I could not believe that this game is made in ONLY 72 HOURS!>!>>!!?!?>?! The music also fits my jazzy taste, I'm sure anyone who likes rats or cheese would really enjoy this game.

WELL DONE!

This is amazing.
What a great little game. I am super impressed at how polished the experience felt for a 3-days jam. Graphics are on point, humor is on point, music is good too. A nice variety of scenes and an expansive cast of characters, simple yet effective gameplay, voice acting, etc.
I would be super curious to know how to achieve this kind of retro look on a game, how did you do that?
Kudos to you team:)

An interesting well-assembled game, I'm surprised you were able to do IT ALL in 3 days, very impressive

Love the vibes! The PSX graphics are amazing. Liked the humour too. Overall incredible submission!

Love the visuals, very cozy!

A fantastic game with great storytelling, humor, and atmosphere! In the web version, some characters don’t render properly, but other than that, it’s really awesome!

Amazing entry! Enjoyed the ride back home. The art style was amazing, as well as the audio. The game was super moody. Not to mention that it was funny as well! I just had a little issue that for all other rats the rat model itself didn't load and they were just floating clothes. :/

Great entry!

Bravo! Had a good laugh on this. The rat tends to get stuck in the trash bins a lot, might be intentional though

Wow, amazing! I *love* the aesthetic, the mood, the audio, the nostalgia! Definitely my favorite entry so far.

This is about as good as it can possibly get for graphics, mood and audio in a three day jam.
I was sucked right back to childhood game memories with this one. Incredible, you should be proud!

Fantastic entry! wow, so much art, super impressive you got so much done, it really gave the whole game a sense of polish that I didn't expect to see.
Voice acting was 10/10, some great humour.
All the camera angles felt really cinematic and complemented all the environments.
The movement felt really clean and intuitive to use.
If I had any sort of feedback it would just be more gameplay, but for what you did it was great.

This was such a visual delight and the audio was fantastic too! I'm so impressed with the environment and voice acting work, especially with the time restrictions of a game jam.

Excellent work!

I really love the film noir ps1 aesthetic and the soundtrack that goes with it ! The art is flawless, congrats guys !!!!

The humour is on point too and the dub is really nice xD special note for the chinese chef, indeed like the team, he is the one who cooks

5 stars no remarks

Holy rat... This is a wild story. I loved the end plot twist, it fits the world. Awesome experience

You create art. King of rat game.

11/10 feels like I've met Cheesus
great job :D

Chill atmosphere.
Enjoyable Sound design (6/5) 💖

Wow, this is incredible — such an amazing amount of work done in just three days! This was the first game I played in the jam, and I have a feeling it’s going to stay my favorite. The graphics, atmosphere, humor, and music are all top-notch. Fantastic job!

this level of complexity for player interaction is unheard of 72 hour gamejam. Good work/got good score simply because of the mouse movement is so complicated. Art is also cool in this entry.

Okay, this is a really fun game. I like the characters, they're just NPCs, but they're cool. The music and graphics are atmospheric

What a gem... I LOVE THIS GAME, you guys did an amazing job. Visuals, audio, stroy, characters. Eveything is just so perfect, 10/10! Showed it to my wife, she loves rats. Now it's her favorite game too:)

masterpiece

The mood is so good ! The environments are rich and the idea is simple and clean. I was a bit lost at start, but I finally found out what to do.

Incredible atmosphere, surroundings, and graphic style. Played it through to the end with great interest. Loved the humor and voice acting — it was a blast. 10/10. Excellent work.

RAT CITY! FANTASTIC! FIVE STARS!

"We're smokingggggg CIGARETTES" top notch voice acting xD love it

love the vibe of the game, wouldnt mind playing more in this universe

Lovely art style. I enjoyed meeting all the interesting characters.

There's this one comment which says: "masterpiece"

I agree. More words would ruin anything one could say.

I mean its like totally great. Like so good, it made me go like: "wooooooow" so often.

Even if I wanted to I couldn't write anything negative about it, because its like... really cool and stuff.

Oh, besides that one time I had to walk back and make rice... oh and when I found out it was point and click...
oh and...
Nah, just messing with ya, ahah

You really thought I would not totally write something really good about this game. Because it is really good, like..
I wouldn't even know how to make smth as visually stunning as this game. I mean, how did you even come up with an exexeptional game idea like that!?

Mamazin', just mamazin'

But yeah, a single word is enough to describe this game: "its a masterpiece!"

oh no wait, that was three words...

I enjoyed this. As mentioned in many comments, the overall mood of the game is a strong point. The visuals and audio are enjoyable and do a lot with a little. The fixed camera positions work really nicely. I would have liked more coverage from the audio, with more of the environments being given an ambient bed, for example, and the sound of the lift moving would add to the effect of the shaking that you did include. Overall, cohesive, compelling and cheeky. Good stuff.

Wowwww! I really enjoyed the whole atmosphere with both art and audio design!! The story is also incredible with great jokes. If this jam project can be extended I would love to pay for it. :smiley:

10/10 - no notes. One note, I got stuck in the ground of chinatown :p I love poop jokes, swearing and rats smoking giant blunts - thank you for making this game! <3

Impressive work in such a short time!

oh my lord what an entry. would play a full version of this. crazy good mood and art!!! the little rat elevator scenes were probably my favorite, only because i loved the attention to detail there. nice stuff

我是炒饭的厨师😂 How did you come up with that? By the way, great work! I enjoy the rat city!

im gonna sound cheesy but-love love love the jazz soundtrack, graphics and the world building. The environment is so pretty and the little perspective pov is such a cherry on top.

Great vibes, the environments and animations were all fun to see, and the sound work pulled it all together nicely. Definitely inspiration to add more background animations to my own games after seeing how much life it brings to the world.

<3 sand undertane

Did I just play Disco Elysium? Jesus christ what an entry. Everything is gorgeous and the music is super fitting and so much art work and characterization. I enjoyed Elon eating shit lol

Congrats on making such a great entry and looking forward to the release of Abrasion :)

Others have already mentioned everything I was going to say, I just wanted to say this was fun. One of the funniest LD games I've seen.

This is so impressive, how did you guys make all those models so fast?! I really enjoyed the whole playthrough, especially the voice acting and atmosphere. Not too long, not too short either. Great job!

Honestly really impressive game, I can't believe this was made in 3 days. Art, story, gameplay and humour are all incredible. Normally say where I found issues or ways to improve the game in my comments, but there were no issues and I can't see any way to improve this masterpiece. Amazing work!

Very cool game! AND IT'S ABOUT RATS!!!! Maximum rating. It turned out pretty solid and complete, cool that you all made it in time! It was great.

I didn't find any bugs, but my friend got stuck in front of a rat in China Town and had to restart the game.

An awesome game. The sound and visuals create an extremely cool and original mood. I love the voice acting, it adds so much to the immersion. I also really like the controls/movement as it was really smooth. And the fact you've made this in 3 days is crazy, the rats and environment are so beautiful. I also got stuck in front of the cart in China town and had to restart but that definitely didn't affect my perfect rating. Thank you!

The game immerses you in an incredible atmosphere. Very cool graphics and color scheme. I also really liked the voice acting. Great job, good luck with further projects!

Really impressive that you've managed to develop this game in such a short period of time - great job!

Well, games like this are the reason why I love Ludum Dare. Thank you for your job guys.

Absolutely insane game for Ludum Dare. You guys did a great job

The noir detective atmosphere is perfectly conveyed!

one of the best game here, good job!

Awesome game, totally gave me vibes of the best point-n-click adventures from my childhood. When it ended, all I could think was – I want more!

This game had so much personality, aesthetic, and charm. Wildly impressive!

`https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFk44q7aTqE&t=4162s`

Excellent game. Great atmosphere and art.

Very fun, so much personality and the mood and aesthetics are impeccable.

Can't wait for the update rat city 2077

The mood is so amazing, I usually don't have feelings for characters but theses rats tells a story more than any hollywood characters, truly a masterpiece and cheese was my reason.

cheese

Really hilarious game! It's such a simple premise, but having them all be rats really drives the absurdity, especially in the strip club. Plus the voice acting was really spot on, impressed that it was fully voice. Also, just has a great atmosphere, really captured that grungy noir aesthetic, and I'm always a sucker for PSX. Gameplay was on the straightforward side, but was serviceable to keep the story moving along. All in all, amazing work!

Gotta love the absurd vibe of such a noir setting + the rats, rat jokes and funny names... The names are probably my favorite lol You really nailed the vibes here with great art, awesome narration and great writing that makes fun of all the tropes in the genre as well! Only thing that bugged me a bit is that the character always goes on a straight line to where I click, so sometimes he would get stuck. Otherwise, great game!

Translator I don't know how you managed to do it in such a short time, but it looks amazing! Great fellows!

Great game! I love the mood, the post process filter works wonder. The different scenes are all nice, with interesting camera angles. Story is nice too, and voice acting on point. The one thing that I got stuck on is that it wasn't obvious to me that I could (and had to) talk to the middle rat at the end. I assumed I had to find money or paperwork. My fav game for now, well done!

Very cool quest that reminded me of quests from my childhood! And a very high quality game made within the jam! Great game!

Very cool and stylish game with great vibes of old quests) defenetely one of my favs on ld57!

This is the one, this is **the** LD57 game

I usually look for things to nitpick, but other than one super minor bug (the dialogue portrait being wrong in one of the cheese fried rice guy interactions) I actually can't seem find anything negative to say about this, it's a **MASTERPIECE**

My compliments to the rats, shoutouts to Jerma985

Oh wow I don't think I have much more to add that others haven't said already. What an amazing game and experience! 11/10.

Beautifull mood ! Visual and audio are stunning ! The retro point and click vibes are very well made !

it was a pleasure to finish this game !! i had a great time !