Twenty-two little text adventures about roof rat life

A party of roof rats as fantasy adventurers on a misty forest path lit by glowing mushrooms: a cream-blonde bard in a jester hat playing a lute, a black rat in chainmail holding a dagger, an agouti standard-bearer carrying a banner that reads Roof Rat Adventures, a robed rat casting a blue spell, and a scout with a lantern and backpack. Each rat has the big thin ears, pointed snout, and long tail of a roof rat.

If you are old enough to remember typing GO NORTH at a blinking cursor, you know what these are. If you are not, they are worth a look anyway: you read a bit of a scene, type what you want to do next, and feel your way through.

Ours are about roof rats. Their care, how they actually behave, and some of the science, all worked into the story instead of lectured at you. You do pick up real things by playing, but mostly it is just fun to poke around and see what happens.

There are twenty-two of them now, in five tracks: bringing a rat home, health and care, breeding responsibly, a set that shrinks you down and sends you through a rat’s own body, and two where you command the immune system. Have a wander.

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