Medieval Rat Chefs Cook Up 90% Positive on Steam in Overcooked-Style Hit
Co-op kitchen chaos goes full contact in Restaurats, a frenetic cooking caper where you juggle orders, quell tantrums, and deck furious diners when service boils over.
If Overcooked ever turned you into a full Gordon Ramsay impersonator with your friends, I have a new way to risk those friendships: a co-op kitchen game where the chefs are rats and the customers include orcs and vampires. Think Overcooked meets Ratatouille, then toss in a medieval fantasy dining room and zero health code.
The game is called Restaurats. It hit Steam earlier this month and it is already pulling a Very Positive rating. We are talking almost 500 user reviews with roughly 90% giving it a thumbs up. Not bad for a rodent-run restaurant.
The hook is simple and very chaotic: you and your friends play as tiny kitchen rats, race around prepping food, then literally throw dishes at a rotating lineup of creatures to keep service moving. When customers get salty, you do not just watch a timer punish you. You can whack them with a baguette or a hammer to calm the room down. Subtle? No. Effective? Apparently.
"Normal gameplay is fun... but then chasing your friends around with a baguette and knocking each other down until you are laughing so hard you are crying."
"One of the best impulse buys we have played in a long time... enough preparing for the planners and plenty of chaos and running around for the gremlins. Highly recommend."
It also leans into the bit with cosmetic flair. You can Dress to Impress, decking out your rat avatar with accessories so you look fabulous while pelting a vampire with soup. If Overcooked was a little too stressful for you, this swaps out that ticking-clock panic for slapstick crowd control and a steady stream of food fights. It is ridiculous in the right way.
- Platform: Steam
- Launched: earlier this month
- Reception: Very Positive, almost 500 user reviews, about 90% positive
- Premise: co-op cooking as rat chefs in a medieval restaurant
- Guests: fantasy creatures like orcs and vampires
- Core loop: cook fast, throw dishes to serve, keep the crowd happy
- Problem-solving: bonk angry customers with a baguette or hammer
- Style points: customize your rat via Dress to Impress
Bottom line: if you are hunting for a new co-op chaos machine, this looks like an easy pick-up, especially if you enjoy games that make you laugh so hard you forget what the objective was. And yes, 2025 has a bunch more interesting indies on the way, but for now, the rats have the floor.