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A Rat's Quest: The Way Back Home

2026 · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch · Platform · Puzzle · Adventure

About this game

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.

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 winged, poisonous, and scale-bond variety. With a rivet for a sword and nails as throwing daggers, Mat will brave a world to which he is unwelcome.

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Game facts

Release date

Apr 3, 2026

Developer

The Dreamerians

Publisher

HandyGames

Platforms

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch

Genres

Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

Themes

Action, Comedy

Game modes

Single player

Perspective

Third person

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