Mad Rat Dead is an adventure developed by Nippon Ichi Software, released 30 October 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Mad Rat Dead is
Mad Rat Dead is an adventure game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in 2020. It was published by NIS America. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You've got one day to live and a big score to settle in Mad Rat Dead! Combining elements of action platformers and rhythm games with a cartoon-meets-punk art style, this crazy caper has you guiding a newly-resurrected rat in his quest for vengeance. Move in time with the music, smash through hordes of enemies, and rewind to escape hairy situations!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Mad Rat Dead holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 17 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Mad Rat Dead launched on 30 October 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Mad Rat Dead yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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