Lead escaped lab rats to colony leadership through worker placement, farm exploration, and quest completion.
Vibe's take
quirky rat colony charm, worker-placement competition, farm exploration, Euro with personality
Who it's for
Euro gamers who want familiar worker-placement mechanics with a unique, charming theme that stands out from medieval/farming standards.
Not for you if…
You prefer traditional Euro themes or want a game with more innovative mechanisms beyond standard worker placement.
Lead a family of escaped lab rats to prove your worthiness as colony leader. Rats of Wistar is a worker-placement game where your rat workers explore a farm, gather resources, and complete quests to earn prestige. The action-claiming system creates tight competition for the best spots, and the event cards add narrative variety to each game. The quirky theme of intelligent rats building a society on a farm gives the familiar Euro mechanisms a fresh and charming personality.
Players
Duration
90 min
Ages 12+
Complexity
3.4 / 5 — MediumBGG Rating
6.7/10
Rank #935
3.7k ratings
Published
2023
Designed by
Danilo Sabia, Simone Luciani
Published by
Intrafin Games, Maldito Games, HIT Games, CrowD Games, Portal Games, PD-Verlag, Cranio Creations, DSV Games, Game Harbor, Capstone Games, TLAMA games
Sounds like your kind of game?
Lead escaped lab rats to colony leadership through worker placement, farm exploration, and quest completion.
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