Rats, Bats, and Bones
Smallfry Games · 2019 · Indie, Strategy, Tower Defense, Pixel Graphics, Retro
PC
Very Positive90% · 98
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About Rats, Bats, and Bones
Rats, Bats, & Bones is a challenging trap defense game in which you play the role of a renowned engineer who must use wits and guile to defeat hordes of undead. Place traps including spikes, spears, cannons, bombs, and turrets, in the walls and floors. Be creative with barricades in order to shape the path of your enemies. Carefully select abilities as you battle your way through a story containing 45 hand-crafted levels. As you beat the invaders back, you will be rewarded with silver which can be used to unlock new traps, trap upgrades, and special player bonuses.
Features
- Play 45 hand-crafted levels with multiple difficulties
- Earn silver to unlock new abilities as you play through the story
- Deploy 24 clever traps in your own creative way
- Each trap has its own unique upgrade to unlock
- Choose between 14 powerful player bonuses
- Battle against over 26 unique enemies
- See how far you can last in "endless" mode
- Killer synthwave soundtrack
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 0 of 1 DLC at today's best prices (some DLC unpriced).
$4.99
to own everything
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[i]---see where this game landed on my tower defense tier list beneath this rec!---[/i] This game largely clones [b]Dungeon Warfare[/b] which came out 2 years before it. [b]Dungeon Warfare[/b] was an excellent 2D version of [b]Orcs Must Die![/b] (minus controlling a hero). It's hard for me to say whether this is equal to [b]Dungeon Warfare[/b] or not without doing a replay of that title, which at the very least says that they're close enough in quality, though your safer bet is with the OG which has far more reviews and sits at an Overwhelmingly Positive score. The visuals were a concern for me going in; some games with this visual style can be difficult to read but I found everything to be quite clear. Whether you will enjoy [b]Rats, Bats & Bones[/b] will probably come down to how much you enjoyed [b]Dungeon Warfare[/b], and whether you're okay with more of the same - with little to differentiate itself or innovate. That's the biggest problem playing this, it feels so similar and like you've done all of this before. At the same time, it's also a winning formula that's been executed very well here as well. It must be said that the soundtrack (made by the same multi-talented…3 found this helpful
A low-effort Dungeon Warfare knockoff hiding its mediocrity behind "hardcore" difficulty.
Very good tower defense.
This has been one of the HARDEST TD games I've tried... Bought it when it came out, finished it 7 years later. And guess what? It was worth retaking it. It has all the things I love. 10/10, buy it now!
it fun
-Tons of content -Polished Tower Defense mechanics -Great chiptune OST -Great NES-styled horror aesthetic and spritework
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