Rabbit Riot

My instinct with tiny, under-the-radar Steam releases is always to give them a proper sit-down before writing them off, and Rabbit Riot rewarded that patience in ways I did not fully expect. The setup is genuinely odd in the best way: a military consciousness-transfer experiment leaves you stranded in a rabbit's body, loose in a labyrinthine abandoned mansion, with guard dogs on patrol and something much worse lurking deeper inside. It is a horror-survival adventure that wears its hand-drawn aesthetic like a badge of intent, signalling from the first frame that a small team cared about every pixel on screen. The core loop is stealth-and-survival. You are small, fragile, and outnumbered, which means agility and quick thinking matter far more than brute force. Guard dogs patrol fixed routes, traps dot the mansion floors, and wolves add to the roster of threats as you push further in. The tension comes not from jump scares but from the creeping dread of being the wrong species in the wrong place. The mansion's atmosphere does a lot of the heavy lifting, and the sound design earns its keep, layering ambient unease under a haunting soundtrack that keeps the mood taut even during slower exploration sections. The story is where Rabbit Riot shows its real ambition. Beyond your own escape, the game asks you to piece together what happened to two other test subjects, and those discoveries carry genuine weight. Multiple endings tied to player choices give the narrative some structural backbone, and unlockable content rewards thoroughness. For a game this compact, the writing punches above its weight class. That said, the experience is short, and players expecting a sprawling Metroidvania will find the scope more modest. The mansion does not overstay its welcome, which I consider a feature rather than a flaw. It knows when to end. The Steam community has responded warmly, with around 88% of reviews sitting positive at the time of writing. That figure is telling for a title with almost no press coverage and a price point that regularly dips to near-zero. No Metacritic score exists, and professional critics have largely ignored it entirely. If you are the kind of player who seeks out the overlooked and the handcrafted, this one has been sitting quietly in that corner of Steam where the good stuff hides. The hand-drawn visuals, the atmospheric sound design, the female protagonist navigating horrors both biological and supernatural: it all coheres into something that feels authored, not assembled. The ceiling here is modest. The stealth systems are functional rather than deep, enemy variety is limited, and the production values reflect a small team working with real constraints. But within those constraints, Rabbit Riot achieves something rarer than technical polish: a distinct voice and a premise it actually commits to. For horror-adjacent indie fans who like their survival tight, their stories dark, and their games willing to end before they wear out their welcome, this is worth your afternoon.

Kai · Scout Team

Indie & narrative

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