As I said before, I have 5 total levels planned. I want to explore the dynamics between different types of humans and their relationships and show how these interact with your Rat player character. These are all WIP but I’ve completed one of the households with the first level characters.
If you are unfamiliar with how archetypes work in my game, please refer to the Gameplay section of my GDD.
Level 1: Evie and Eden
- If Evie sees you, she will freeze and alert her sister by screaming. If you manage to jump on her, she will faint.
- If Eden sees you she will try to crush you because she isn’t afraid of rats.
- If you start running, she’ll chase you around the house but be mindful of your stamina bar because you’ll eventually slow down and be caught.
- You have to hide and sneak stealthy, however, she will know that you’re in the house so she’ll follow her daily routine while looking out for you.
- On this level, you can hide behind the old counters with ways to sneak in and out of different corners of the house and shortcuts to different rooms
- If you fail to get food the first day, you can try again the next day, be mindful of your hunger bar slowly depleting, don’t let it get to 0.
- However, if you try again the next few days, the level will be made harder, there will be traps set and if you get to the highest difficulty, they will call an exterminator who will give u a game over the second he sees you as he is an expert, however, there IS a way to outsmart him…
- E.g. As the difficulty rises, the sisters may live in traps, poisoned bait food and noise repellent or even hire a cat to take care of their rat problem.
- The cat would act like the exterminator (however it is hard to run away from as it can smell and hear your footsteps and it’s a hunter cat) but can be outsmarted if you see its weak points or distract it in some way.
| Evie | Eden |
| – Normal State: Loud and Brash, Scared personality – Threatened state: Freezes in her spot or cowers away and calls her sister over – Level of Threat: Medium | – Normal State: Shy and reserved, Indifferent personality – Threatened state: She’ll defend her sister at all costs and hunt the player down on sight – Level of Threat: High |
Reward
+ up to 1050 base XP (+ any other skills you used) | + 20000 base Cheez | + Food (If you scavenged) | + Special Boss Item | +/- Respect | +/- Energy
Level 2: A Family (Mother, Father and a son)
- The son will want to keep you as a pet so watch out for him.
- He is benevolent, but dangerous as he is a young child who wants to play with you.
| Mother | Father | Son |
| – Normal State: Calm and Collected, Disgusted personality – Threatened state: Shoos you away. – Level of Threat: Low | – Normal State: Loud and Brash, Indifferent personality – Threatened state: Switches to either of the other personalities depending on your actions. – Level of Threat: Medium | – Normal State: Loud and Brash, Benevolent personality – Threatened state: Beckons you over and play with you – Level of Threat: High |
Reward
+ up to 3500 base XP (+ additional for any other skills you used) | + 25000 base Cheez | + Food (If you scavenged) | + Special Boss Item | +/- Respect | +/- Energy
Level 3: Mad Scientist
- This level will be a mad scientist who likes to do weird experiments on things so watch out for her.
- If she sees you, she will want to experiment on you.
- Her house is full of different traps and items that are harmful to you but not to her.
- Normal State: Eccentric and Curious, Benevolent personality
- Engaged state: Tracks you down and promises to keep you safe, but tries to experiment on you which will hurt you slowly until you die.
- Level of Threat: High
Reward
+ up to 5050 base XP (+ additional for any other skills you used) | +50000 base Cheez | + Food (If you scavenged) | + Special Boss Item | +/- Respect | +/- Energy
Level 4: Group of Uni Students
| Student 1 | Student 2 | Student 3 | Student 4 |
| – Normal State: Friendly and Quiet, Scared personality – Threatened state: Asks you not to hurt them if you get too close, freezes if you jump or move erratically – Level of Threat: Low | – Normal State: Calm and Collected, Disgusted personality – Threatened state: Will leave you alone and the area for a short time – Level of Threat: Low | – Normal State: Manipulative and Ambitious, Indifferent personality – Engaged state: Will leave you alone but sometimes call over their scared housemate to get a reaction out of them. – Level of Threat: High | – Normal State: Loud and Funny, Benevolent personality – Engaged state: “Awws” you and draws attention to you – Level of Threat: Medium |
Reward
+ up to 8500 base XP (+ additional for any other skills you used) | + 100000 base Cheez | + Food (If you scavenged) | + Special Boss Item | +/- Respect | +/- Energy
Level 5: Grandma with Dozens of Cats
– Normal State: Quiet, Benevolent personality. Her cats will have human archetypes assigned to them across all 4, so you have to figure out their archetypes and avoid the malicious ones.
– Engaged state: Freezes in her spot or cowers away and calls her sister over
– Level of Threat: Medium
Reward
+ up to 10500 base XP (+ additional for any other skills you used) | + 150000 base Cheez | + Food (If you scavenged) | + Special Boss Item | +/- Respect | +/- Energy