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A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home

Follow Mat, the Scavenger, on his long journey to find his way back home. Experience a world full of threats from a rat's unique perspective, while fighting and sneaking on a rodent's most dangerous adventure.

3 April 2026

A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home is an adventure developed by The Dreamerians, released 3 April 2026 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home is

A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home is an adventure game developed by The Dreamerians and released in 2026. It was published by HandyGames. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mat is a young male rat that lives among a rat commune in an abandoned wine cellar, together with his best friend Toby and other rodents. Having felt in love with Nat, a female house mouse kept as a pet in the upper floors, he decides to become a Scavenger, for sneaking to his beloved somehow officially. Being from different worlds, they plot a plan to escape to “the outside” together. His overconfidence however puts them in peril’s way, and not everything in the commune is as it seems. In a series of unlucky events, Mat finds himself alone, far away from the house. He must make his way back home, overcoming a journey across woodlands, caves, and swamps, defying overwhelming danger of a…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home launched on 3 April 2026, within three weeks of Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced and Mouse: P.I. For Hire. It arrived 13 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Crimson Desert Enhanced, Pragmata, Replaced, Mouse: P.I. For Hire.

Official trailer

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When did A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home come out?
A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home was released on 3 April 2026 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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