The Ratline
Owlskip Games · 2026 · Adventure, Detective, Investigation, Mystery, Puzzle
PC
Very Positive85% · 299
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About The Ratline
Quotes
"I loved every minute of the demo"Lucas Pope, Return of the Obra Dinn"Delivers layers of clever puzzles and satisfying reveals all the way through to the end"Jeremy Johnston, The Roottrees are Dead
“Roottrees fans will really enjoy sleuthing in The Ratline”
EvilTrout, The Roottrees are Dead.
“If you love the Golden Idol games, you'll love the Ratline”
Will Ackerman, Lead Designer, Rise of the Golden Idol.
Note on Compatibility
The Ratline is not optimised for Steamdeck. Please use Mouse and Keyboard for optimal experience.Summary
1971. A dead priest. A list of Nazi fugitives. The hunt begins.When a Catholic priest is found murdered in Budapest, a secret list is discovered —names of Nazi war criminals who escaped justice through a covert network known as The Ratline. Now, the case is yours.In this gritty detective thriller set in 1971, you play an investigator chasing shadows across continents. Use your wits, intuition, and network of contacts to follow leads, dig through documents, and piece together the truth.You will:
- Examine documents, photographs, and recovered artifacts
- Make independent deductions with no hand-holding
- Act like a proper sleuth, working contacts and shaking down sources from Rome to Buenos Aires
- Hunt down your marks - put together their identities, check your work and bring them to justice.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
中评+1。推理的内容还是过关的（有少量瑕疵但问题不大），但是作为游戏来说设计上有一些问题。最明显的一点是玩法上缝合了一大堆不同的经典作品，又不是全缝了就会更好玩。倒数几章突然给我一个type help同款系统让我哭笑不得。界面功能也有很多改进空间。 Made by people very enthusiastic about the mystery genre. That said, there are problems with game design and development. I agree with other comments that the Type Help like element does not fit in well with the rest of the game.2 found this helpful
It's pretty good1 found this helpful
Haven't have this much fun in a long time on a game. Any little detail could be the difference between solving a case or not. For some reason it says "STEAM REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS GAME" or something when I open it, but the game works fine. A ton of fun, intellectually stimulating, can pause at any time and step away to do something, think about a case, and come back to it.
I am a big fan of Owlskip games after discovering them last year, and Ratline is a nice little addition to the catalogue. I do have to admit I missed the voice acting of the previous audio puzzles quite a bit, and was thus excited and quickly disappointed when the surveillance recording system was introduced. Ratline is slightly shorter and less complex than some previous Owlskip games, but a very nice compact story that is engaging the whole way through. I also very much enjoyed the small easter egg references to other deduction games. If you enjoyed this and would like a more audio-focused experience I heartily recommend trying Rivals.
It's a good detective game, having finished it I wish I had more of it.
Fun little game, I got confused over the logical deductions on a few of the cases, but generally I didn't have much problem and found it an enjoyable puzzle game. It's about 9 hours long or so maybe, one achievement needed you to spend 2 hours on a single puzzle, which was a bit annoying to find out and have to do after I'd finished tbh
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