Sewer Tales by Matthieu Riboulot
Swarm, multiply and fight your way through the sewers of Paris!
Controls - Left click - Move your Lord Rat like a RTS
Middle Click / Space - Put your Rats behind you
Right click - Send your Rats to the target location
Design: Matthieu RIBOULOT
Prog: Gaétan RISCHE
Art/Sound: Clément NGUYEN




| Link | https://matthieu-riboulot.itch.io/sewer-tales |
| Link | https://matthieu-riboulot.itch.io/sewer-tales |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/sewer-tales |
Ratings
| Overall | 24th | 4.31⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 50th | 4.119⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 182th | 3.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 6th | 4.595⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 2th | 4.881⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 34th | 4.214⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 63th | 4.024⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 79th | 4.19⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 10🗨️ |
The highlight for me was the fact that this is a 3D entry. I love all the references and it feels very Ratatouille. I would just say that I would love to see more of the king's power aside from leading it's army.
I wouldn't be surprised if this game reaches high rankings. Good job!
Also, sometimes there were like 2 or 3 cats in an area, which was basically just a death sentence. Even one cat is basically guaranteed to half my rat population (or worse). I essentially just ran whenever I could if I saw one, but sometimes the rats would still suicide themselves against the cat for no reason. I would have liked if I could pull them away from combat more easily.
Anyway, this is a great game, and I hope it does really well!
@jaco-van-hemert Cats and especially multiple cats are supposed to be fled from until you have a truly death stack of rats (something like 80-120 rats). The lab rat have higher attack speed and speed.
@iron-head we wanted to include a boss battle but we runned out of time, you can think the number of your rats on the left as a score!
Would have loved if there was an end goal (maybe gathering an army strong enough to take back the rat king's territory or sth). But it's somehow incredibly relaxing just gathering a bigger and bigger army of rats, vibing to the music and seeing my rats just absolutely demolishing everything that got in their way once I had gathered enough of them.
btw it's possible to gather way more than 100 rats

Would also really like to have a boss fight with my boys but we runned out of time!
The ninja turtle cameo was the best. :raised_hands: :smile: I did feel a bit like Splinter walking around with my apprentices. lol.
Like others mentioned, maybe having some win condition of some kind?... instead of just dying would be good? But honestly, I enjoyed just exploring around.
Is the level endless? I was trying to figure out how you did that part... it's seamless however you did it. It feels so cool. One of my fav entries so far. :heart: Really nice work.
It also felt like there wasn't much of a difference between the commands - get behind, or go over there... they both kinda did what they wanted either way!
Other than that, it's a really nice entry... beautiful graphics, sound and mood.