The Rat's End is a stylised, retro-inspired action game combining high-impact combat with a branching narrative. Built in Godot, it features a custom PS1 aesthetic, dynamic difficulty scaling, and a data-driven dialogue system that responds to player choices.
- High-Impact Game Feel: Tight, responsive combat enhanced with screen shake, hitstop mechanics, combo counters, and dynamic visual effects.
- Dynamic Difficulty System: An intelligent enemy spawner that scales the enemy cap and spawn rates proportionally to the player's score, ensuring a smooth yet challenging progression curve.
- PS1-Retro Aesthetic: Custom-written shaders to faithfully recreate the visual artifacts of the PS1 era, complete with post-processing and vertex wobble.
- Persistent Player Settings: Fully integrated UI configurations, saving player preferences for sensitivity and audio mixing (Master/Music/SFX) across sessions.
- Clone the repository.
- Open the project in Godot 4.x.
- Press
F5or click the Play button to run the game!
Thank you for checking out The Rat's End! Feel free to play the game on itch.io or explore the source code.