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New York Rat Simulator cover art

New York Rat Simulator

Firebug Games · 2021-11-13

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 05, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

In a world bound by the very laws of traffic, one Rat has been chosen.... Roam the streets of New York, imbued with unnatural jumping abilities, you can now disrupt the very fabric of society and collect pizza slices in the name of the glorious Rat King to summon the dark eldritch being of New York.

83%
positive of 151 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$2.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 43% of 19,862 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.0k–6.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 151 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2025-09-29)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 1 of 2 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
141420212026Week of 2021-11-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$2.99$0.592021-11-132025-10-062021-11-13 — best price $2.542021-11-20 — best price $2.992021-12-23 — best price $2.392022-01-05 — best price $2.992022-11-23 — best price $1.492022-11-29 — best price $2.992022-12-22 — best price $2.092023-01-05 — best price $2.992023-03-16 — best price $2.092023-03-23 — best price $2.992023-06-29 — best price $2.092023-07-13 — best price $2.992023-11-21 — best price $2.092023-11-28 — best price $2.992023-12-21 — best price $2.092024-01-04 — best price $2.992024-04-01 — best price $2.242024-04-08 — best price $2.992024-06-27 — best price $1.642024-07-11 — best price $2.992024-12-26 — best price $1.342025-01-02 — best price $2.992025-09-29 — best price $0.592025-10-06 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

3DCasualMysterySandboxColorfulLife SimAdventureNonlinearOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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