Rat Game Sets October 30 Steam Release For Chef Vs Rats Asymmetric Horror Comedy
Sokpop Collective built its catalog on solo-scale monthly experiments, and Rat Game is the studio's return to a project large enough to carry proximity voice chat, a human-versus-Robo-Chef mode split, and a two-hour session target.
Key Facts
- Sokpop Collective announced on September 10 that Rat Game will release on October 30 for PC via Steam.
- Rat Game is an asymmetric horror comedy in which one chef faces two to eight rats in a restaurant.
- The estimated play time for Rat Game is about two hours.
- Rat Game is in development by Aran Koning, who was lead designer and programmer on Stacklands.
- Rat Game was officially announced in February 2026.
Reporting from 2 sources: Denfaminicogamer, Automaton.
Sokpop Collective announced on September 10 that Rat Game will launch on October 30 for PC via Steam, with Japanese in-game text supported according to the store page. The game is an asymmetric horror comedy in which one chef faces two to eight rats in a restaurant. The rats run around the kitchen, office, bar, storage room, and restroom, using small bodies to move through space under furniture and holes in walls. They sabotage the restaurant by tampering with the breaker panel, clogging toilets, and hacking PCs, and they win by completing a set number of tasks. The chef catches rats and throws them into cages placed around the restaurant, can peek under furniture to search, and can use a gun. Trailer footage shows rats solving math problems at a PC and entering a safe combination, and captured rats being freed from cages by fellow rats. The developer describes a hidden cheese storage room somewhere on the map. Estimated play time is about two hours. Rat Game was officially announced in February. Sokpop Collective is based in the Netherlands.
Sokpop Collective is a four-person studio of Aran Koning, Tijmen Tio, Tom van den Boogaart, and Ruben Naus, who have worked together since 2017. In 2018 they began shipping a new game every month through Patreon, roughly 100 releases in about five years. They later dropped the monthly deadline and have said they want to make another 100 works.
Koning is developing Rat Game himself. He was lead designer and programmer on Stacklands, the village-management card game, and also made the tower-defense settlement builder clickyland. Other Sokpop titles include the gardening horror game Grunn.
The trailer shows the Robo-Chef, a mechanical opponent programmed to cook, clean, and kill rats. In the co-op mode, players take only the rat side against it. The chef tracks rats by the sound of movement and scratching claws, and can also use traps. Rats revive after dying, but the mechanism is being kept under wraps. The price is undecided.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.