Games like Rat Race
If Rat Race is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rhythm Quest, Music Boy 3D and Double Kick Heroes — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Rat Race: Engage in a top-down rhythm puzzle game with a built-in level editor. Unravel the Rat Race mystery, find freedom, and save your fellow test subjects. Evade blasts, lasers, and fallen test subjects. Create, and share unfair level designs with your friends through steam.
Players who liked Rat Race also play
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Rhythm Quest
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Top pick for Rat Race fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Rhythm Quest is a 2-button rhythm platformer game. Jump, attack, and fly to the beat through upbeat songs that are hand-crafted to highlight complex rhythms!
Music Boy 3D
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Second-strongest match for Rat Race fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Rat Race.
Music Boy 3D is a rhythm-based 3D runner game with the unique webcam head-tracking technology. This game is distinguished by the accuracy and interactivity of the sound.
Double Kick Heroes
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Third-strongest match for Rat Race fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Butcher loads of zombies in Rhythm with Metal! Survive on the highway to hell fighting an epic freakshow! Now with 30 levels of pure madness! 19 Licensed tracks and a Community Level Editor to import your own songs!
BIT.TRIP RERUNNER
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Rat Race fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rat Race.
The classic rhythm platformer is back as BIT.TRIP RERUNNER + RUNNER MAKER! The fun of the original now sports fresh mechanics, art, and soundtrack – plus RUNNER MAKER, which allows you to create custom levels. A must-play for rhythm newbies, experts, and everyone in between.
Oddworld: Soulstorm Enhanced Edition
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Ranked #5 for Rat Race fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Oddworld: Soulstorm is the explosive second game in a brand new Oddworld Quintology that tells the continuing story of Abe and his comrades as they discover further crimes against Mudokonkind and look for the spark that will ignite a revolution.
Mononeko: A Rhythm Adventure
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Ranked #6 for Rat Race fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Rat Race.
In Mononeko, you weave attacks into the music, chain together movements and race against time to capture the kitten killers who are hiding a dark truth.
Skyline Sprinters
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Ranked #8 for Rat Race fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Welcome to an adrenaline-pumping platform game where players embark on an exhilarating race against each other through a challenging parkour course! Prepare to test your agility, speed, and reflexes as you navigate through an immersive world filled with obstacles, traps, and exciting surprises.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Rat Race at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~80% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~80% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
STAR WARS™ Battlefront (Classic, 2004)
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Priced ~50% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Fight the greatest battles in the STAR WARS universe any way you want to. The choice is yours.
Kill It With Fire
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Priced ~48% under Rat Race on Steam right now. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rat Race.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Rat Race.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
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Frequently asked about Rat Race
- Does Rat Race run on Steam Deck?
- Rat Race is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Rat Race cost?
- Rat Race is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Rat Race?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Rat Race are Rhythm Quest, Music Boy 3D, Double Kick Heroes.
- Who developed Rat Race?
- Rat Race was developed by Sojourn Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Rat Race.
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