The Rats is an adventure developed by Five Ways Software Ltd., released 1 April 1985 on Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
What The Rats is
The Rats is an adventure game developed by Five Ways Software Ltd. and released in 1985. It was published by Hodder & Stoughton. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Rats is a survival horror text adventure for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers. It is based on the 1974 novel The Rats by James Herbert. The game was programmed by GXT, and published by Hodder & Stoughton, who were the publishers of James Herbert's book The Rats. An Amstrad CPC version was planned, but was never released.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
The Rats holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1985 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
Cheats and codes
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