What a deceptively adorable cozy building game. From the first moment, it presents eye-catching and visually pleasing imagesI definitely recommend the game if you’re into management type games. this is very similar to mix of Craft The World/Dwarf Fortress + Oxygen not Included but without the Heat/Gas/Germ mechanics, if you need a reference. Both games have side-on base-building, colony logistics chains, assignable jobs, and cuteness galore. One important difference, though, is in character control: where Oxygen Not Included’s characters may be tasked only indirectly, by ordering someone to go clean the toilets or carry a brick, Ratopia allows both indirect and direct task completion. Along with the colony’s ever-increasing commoner rat population–the pawns to be set to work generally–the player directly controls a Rat Queen, whose regal appearance may be customized. This character, the most powerful and stylish of all ratkind, can mine, fight, and survey her domain via player input. In my view, this is a delightful and previously unseen mixing of active and passive control systems.
A quick word about the Queen: the game models a simple sort of politics, perhaps inspired by Dwarf Fortress. Many rats have beliefs about royalty and law. Some are delighted to see Her Highness, while others are disgusted. There’s crime and punishment, economic classes, and differing expectations based on rank. Taxes may be collected and welfare may be distributed. If the Queen dies, though, it’s no victory for democracy but instead a game over screen.I’ve had a lot of fun with it. There is a few interesting systems to manage like wealth, hunger, sleep, etc. While some of them make sense, it’s not always clear what goes where.
The thing that separate this game from especially Oxygen not Included is here you have to manage economy inside you colony with a social class system (Poor, Middle, Upper) and your citizens need money to survival and do the task that you assign them and there’re enemies here.
You have an ability to declare a law to make your citizen to follow, modify tax, specific building or resource usage ability, and more.
There’re also trading in this game (NPC city trading) which allow you to play the economy game to better your ratizen living condition.
I highly recommend this cozy experience. If you like this genre (colony sim, management …etc) you can take a look.