Rats in a Cage

Rats in a Cage is a satirical puzzle game in which you take a corporate job entry test designed and controlled by a rude AI. Across a series of single-room puzzles, you manipulate and sacrifice co-workers, take credit for their work and compromise your dignity to get the job you want. The AI uses unorthodox ways to discourage you from completing the test, and develops a love-hate relationship with you.

Manipulate your co-workers

Coffee and gossip are among your tools for influencing colleagues. Co-workers run toward coffee when they can get it, so you can use it to steer them. Gossip lets you place them anywhere. You can also push deadlines onto other people, pretend you never received an important email, assign it to someone else or ignore it. Backstabbing, humiliation, meetings and sucking up to your boss are also part of the corporate world.

The game sometimes requires unusual actions, including mechanics that go beyond the game window. Stepping on plants can cause the AI to mess up your screen.

Puzzles and extras

The test includes 42 puzzles, 3 intermezzos and 3 minigames, plus a bonus. It also features achievements, and playtime varies depending on your brainpower.